If you willing to design your website with the content management systems, consider below checklist, which has been taken into account. As there are lot of things, which need to be implemented carefully.

User need to select appropriate CMS application according to website requirements so make sure the application you are going to choose is correct and that application you really need.

Availability of multiple language support is the key element therefore available translation for the CMS back-end should be in their own language. As a user you should be able to upgrade it when it is essential.

In terms of features and performance these systems requires modules or plug-ins so you will need to extend its frequently. You should also check the security concern issues while choosing these software so it is easy to prevent hacking activities. While using modules and plug-ins make sure they are time tested and there are no bugs issues. You should aware about any kind of issue related to with that CMS.

Following questions you need to ask yourself.

1. Are you able to upgrade CMS application yourself?

2. What types of content will be there, and what should be considered static?

3. How the Permalink structure looks like user-friendly?

4. Menus would be controlled by CMS application or it will be in the static form that can be coded into theme.

5. Do you really need page templates for respective sections? Will these page templates work with sub-pages?

6. What kind of strategy you have to represent your sub-pages?

7. What kind of categories you will be using?

8. How the post content structure looks like after submission?

9. Do you need templates for categories to present various sections?

In addition you need to understand these content management systems are not magic wands. As they requires often customization to make an unique identity of your website. Few of them are quite resources hungry applications and requires a good web hosting environment. Usually Shared Hosting plans are recommended, but this is not the always case. You should analyze your requirements for the resources and then opt reliable web hosting package. For an instance if you are willing to use shopping cart based content management system to utilize its features for your e-commerce website better way go with next level hosting environment for the best performance.