: About Me

I am Managing Director of a successful ethical internet marketing company and when not writing articles for Helium I enjoy playing and making music.

I have a range of knowledge spanning diverse subjects from raw food preparation and rustic gourmet cooking to internet marketing and web technologies and I am comfortable writing equally well about all my areas of expertise.

I enjoy getting creative and each day I learn something new to help keep my mind active. I am currently teaching myself how to become a virtuoso on the violin and intend to play live in a full orchestra by the end of the year.

A 'strange but true' fact about me is that I am locally famous for looking like Jack Osbourne despite bearing no resemblence to him whatsoever. This stemmed from once wearing spectacles that were similar to his at the time.

The spectacles went but the name remains...

Computers & Technology > Web Design The benefits of a content management system (CMS)

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A typical content management system, or CMS for short, has two main benefits that make this piece of software one of the must-have tools for the modern day web site owner. The first main benefit of a CMS is that it allows fast, real time updates of a web site without ever having to touch HTML coding or upload each individual page after editing the content through the raw HTML file. As anyone who has ever spent days hand coding and amending content on 200 page web sites will tell you, using a CMS to update content not only saves you time that is better spent creating your content and focusi...

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