LightCMS: A Hosted Solution For Creating Websites

There is no dearth of tools and Content Management Systems out there to help you build your websites. And speaking of Content Management Systems, web-based CMSs hold a particular place, only because they offer a set of features and services that are unique to their niche. In this post, we will be taking a look at one such web CMS: LightCMS.
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LightCMS: A Hosted Solution For Creating Websites
What is LightCMS?
LightCMS is a Content Management Software that you can use to build websites in a simple and intuitive interface. It can be used to power any type of site, be it a blog, an eCommerce store, or an online portfolio. However, just because LightCMS focuses on ease of use, it doesn’t mean it lacks in features or does not allow you to customize your design properly. Everything you build with LightCMS is fully responsive and mobile-friendly. But that is not all. LightCMS offers a full set of custom templates that you can choose and configure to suit your needs. And if that does not work for you, for advanced users, LightCMS also offers the ability to tweak the code in HTML, CSS or JavaScript, thereby allowing you to truly customize your website as per your requirements. For that purpose, LightCMS has an inbuilt code editor. Regarding working, you can add content and elements to your pages within minutes using the point-and-click interface of LightCMS. It offers drag and drop, so you can edit directly on the front-end, and also preview your changes as you go along. LightCMS supports all that you might need to display on your site: images, media, blog posts, photo galleries, custom forms, and a lot more! If you are looking to set up an eCommerce store, LightCMS has specialized tools and features to help you out. You can quickly add products to your eCommerce store, and sell any combination of physical or digital goods right from your store. LightCMS also offers a secure shopping cart and checkout workflow, in addition to handling payments and letting you communicate with your customers from within the CMS interface. And before you ask, LightCMS comes with fantastic SEO features. It offers automated XML sitemaps, Open Graph metadata and tags, keyword-rich URLs, 301 redirects, robots.txt files as well as analytics and statistics for your website. You can integrate Google Analytics to help you assess the growth and performance of your site. As LightCMS is a hosted CMS, it takes away the hassle and tension of web hosting from you. Your content is stored on secure and redundant cloud servers, with guaranteed uptime and scalable performance. You need not worry about any such thing as installation, upgrades or troubleshooting, as all of that is taken care of by LightCMS. Plus, irrespective of the amount of traffic you receive, you will not be charged extra, nor will your website be penalized if you get a sudden spike in traffic. So yes, you can relax and stay away from worries related to web hosting, and focus on the creation and management of your website.