Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Content Management System

A Content Management System (CMS) is a computer program that allows publishing, editing and modifying content as well as its maintenance from a single back-end interface. Such systems also provide procedures to manage workflow in a collaborative environment.




CMSs allow a user to add and/or update website content without the knowledge of programming language. Text formatting and image inserting is usually similar to the Word application. CMSs also offer the comfort of a user interface with intuitive control and an online assistant.



Content management system can be implemented for various types of web presentations, such as:

• Portal solutions

• Commercial and personal websites

• Intranet / Extranet

• Integrated Flash websites

Characteristics & features of CMS

• Allows immediate modification of a website content

• Centralized data editing, publishing and modification

• Intuitive operation

• Supports implementation of any web page design

• Includes advanced configurations for SEO - search engine optimization

• Automatically generates XHTML valid websites according to the W3C standards

• Can be accessed using any web browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Safari, ...)

• Ability to interconnect itself with other software systems

• High measure of security - multi-level data and access protection

Typical content management systems



Web content management systems

- They are bundled or stand-alone applications to create, manage, store and deploy content as Web pages. Web CMSs usually allow client control over HTML-based content, files, documents, and web hosting plans based on the system depth and the areas they serve.



Component content management systems

- They specialize in the creation of documents from component parts. These components can be reused (rather than copied and pasted) within another document or across multiple documents to ensure that content is consistent across the entire documentation set.



Enterprise content management systems

- They organize documents, contacts and records related to the processes of a commercial organization. They also structure the enterprise's information content and file formats, manage locations, streamline access by eliminating bottlenecks and optimize security and integrity.



References:

http://www.creativesites.eu/content-management-system-cms-joomla/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_management_system



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