A Content Management System (CMS) is a method of web design that allows non-specialists to create, edit, manage, and publish all kinds of content and digital images or media. A CMS website will always have two 'views' or ways of accessing the site: a 'front-end view', which is how the website design appears to the public, and a 'back-end' or 'admin view', which is where the site administrators can log in to access a control panel.

Your organization's website ideally plays a dynamic role within an integrated marketing plan. For some businesses, this means a website that features daily specials, product updates, or e-commerce, for others it might involve downloadable brochures, email campaigns with newsletters, blogs, bulletin boards to handle FAQs, or other dynamic content options. However you put your website to work, Joomla CMS allows you complete flexibility and control so that your website and your business grow together. Clear, streamlined administrative panels and menus allow you to fully update and edit your website. That means your updates happen when your business needs them not when an expensive maintenance plan says you can have them. You save money and your website keeps pace with your business’s growth and change.

A nationally-based company located in the Twin Cities (Minneapolis & St. Paul, MN), Concerto Designs offers affordable website design and SEO (Search Engine Optimization) services for small- to medium-sized businesses, churches, and other non-profit organizations in Minnesota (the greater Minneapolis metro area), South Carolina, North Carolina, Alabama, and California. We specialize in Open Source Content Management Systems (CMS) and e-commerce platforms such as Joomla!, Wordpress, Drupal, Silverstripe, CMS Made Simple, Magento, X-Cart, and others.

Our core philosophy is built around our commitment to freeing business owners, non-profits and entrepreneurs from dependence on website development companies or outside 'webmasters'. By providing optimized, hand-coded (and standards-compliant) CMS websites, we give our clients complete access to and control over their website content and images, 24/7. Our custom website designs integrate not only critical branding elements that anchor your organization's identity and brand loyalty, but also content strategies that are designed to move your website to the top of the search engine rankings for a wide range of keyword searches.

We have tested all of the leading CMS platforms, including Joomla!, Wordpress, Drupal, ModX, Expression Engine, and others. Each platform has individual strengths, and we make sure that we match the best platform with the features you require. However, for marketing and informational websites, we have found after extensive website design testing in the field that the best of class is Joomla. The Joomla! platform continues to be the most popular CMS in the world, and given the pace and scope of its ongoing development, we predict accelerated growth in the future.