Creating, opening, building a website. Ask experts or rely on the “DIY” options available online? From a purely economic standpoint, the choice is simple and favors websites based on the CMS available on the internet.
Not everyone, however, is aware of the important consequences that a wrong choice could bring. The advantages of choosing a professional web solution compared to off-the-shelf ones allow, first and foremost, to have the professionalism of a consultant, a professional with whom to discuss, talk, and choose together the work to be carried out to achieve the chosen objective.
The choice to use a particular CMS can be linked to multiple factors:
– greater availability of plug-ins (e.g., for email marketing or for easy implementation of certain features)
– greater ease of use of one platform rather than another
– type of website to be created: do I have an e-commerce site or a few institutional pages? Do I use a proprietary CRM that only connects to certain CMSs, or is it a very open and flexible solution?
However, the choice of a CMS should never disregard the aspect of security: just imagine for a moment the consequences you could have if your site were invaded by a virus or, worse still, your information, data, and projects fell into the wrong hands, or if your site were tampered with, what damage would you suffer.
Here are somesimple but effective tips that we feel like giving:
- Update your CMS to the latest version, ensuring that the site’s template and plug-ins are also available for that version.
- Define secure, “strong” credentials (username + password), for example SxT!2016*cyZ
- Configure files such as .htaccess or web.config appropriately, depending on the hosting platform and the chosen CMS.
- Set file permissions correctly.
- Perform recurring backups of both the database and the FTP part (many providers offer this as an additional plan, but if the site is hosted on third-party platforms, it is right to know the frequency and restore methods (SLA, etc.) that the company guarantees).
- Web Application Firewall orFirewall and malware scanning services: check if the provider offers upstream solutions that protect against potential vulnerabilities of the chosen CMS.
For this reason, there areweb agencies in Milan, capable of building custom-made sites tailored to the client’s needs and able to intervene at any time for modifications or assistance to the work performed. If the chosen agency also has expertise inwebsite positioning (SEO), strong synergy is a synonym for success.
The organic positioning of a website is a complex activity that helps a website to better position itself with respect to one or more keywords: this activity is carried out in SEO agencies by highly trained consultants, among which, in Milan, is Smart Web SEO.
In conclusion, the advice is always to turn to industry professionals who deal with website creation or web agencies capable of finding the right solutions for your needs with a constant focus on security.
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