If you need a great looking website with modern interactivity tools like a blog, forum, shopping cart, photo gallery or any combination of these, and you want to update the website yourself, then a web content management system (CMS) might be a great solution for you.

A CMS is web-based software (i.e. the system runs online, no software to install on your PC) that allows one or more people to easily manage and update the content of a website. A web CMS requires no knowledge of programming languages and web languages (such as HTML, PHP, etc.).

Acess to the CMS is done through a web browser, and it works find on both Windows and Macs.  A CMS offers hundreds of powerful "plug in" tools for popular web features like blogs, forums, recent updates, videos, calendars, photo galleries, news feed, etc. Oh, one more thing, an open source CMS can be quite cost effective compared to builing a new website from scratch.

My favorite open source CMS is Joomla.  Click for more Joomla info.