In part 1 (Choosing the Right Shopping Cart Software and Web Content Management Software - Part 1) we looked closely at some of the features in shopping cart software to help you identify what you may or may not need from your software.

To help you evaluate some of the features you may need from your web content management software to run your online business, it will be helpful to think about how important the following features are to you.  The level of demand for each of these features will depend a great deal on how experienced you are with web content management software.
 
Product Growth
As mentioned in part 1, some shopping cart software can limit the number of products a website retails, while others can support unlimited products.
 
This is the same for web content management software - some systems or versions of the software can limit features available to you and if you plan to grow your business it is important that your content management system has room for growth and can support the growing amount of information on your site.  Software that supports a limited amount of content may be fine for a short time, however may become a problem as the website develops. 
 
Similarly, one of the main purposes of content management software is that it allows a number of administrators to organise and handle the information that is uploaded to one website no matter where they are located.  This means that separate departments can handle the information on one website from the same system.  Some software can limit the number of administrators that have access to the content management system, therefore if you plan on expanding you may want to take this into consideration.
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