Content Management System

Content Management System or CMS for short is a web application used for creating and managing HTML content. It is used to manage and control a large, dynamic collection of Web material (HTML documents and their associated images). A CMS facilitates content creation, content control, editing, and essential Web maintenance functions.

A Content Management System typically has:

Automated templates
Create standard output templates (usually HTML and XML) that can be automatically applied to new and existing content, allowing the appearance of all content to be changed from one central place.

Easily editable content
Once content is separated from the visual presentation of a site, it usually becomes much easier and quicker to edit and manipulate. Most CMS software includes WYSIWYG editing tools allowing non-technical individuals to create and edit content.

Scalable feature sets
Most CMS software includes plug-ins or modules that can be easily installed to extend an existing site's functionality.

Web standards upgrades
Active CMS software usually receives regular updates that include new feature sets and keep the system up to current web standards.

Workflow management
Workflow is the process of creating cycles of sequential and parallel tasks that must be accomplished in the CMS. For example, a content creator can submit a story, but it is not published until the copy editor cleans it up and the editor-in-chief approves it.

Delegation
Some CMS software allows for various user groups to have limited privileges over specific content on the website, spreading out the responsibility of content management.

Document management
CMS software may provide a means of managing the life cycle of a document from initial creation time, through revisions, publication, archive, and document destruction.

Content virtualization
CMS software may provide a means of allowing each user to work within a virtual copy of the entire Web site, document set, and/or code base. This enables changes to multiple interdependent resources to be viewed and/or executed in-context prior to submission.

Why you would like to have your website built on CMS?

A website content management system (CMS) is designed to run in the background of a public website. It allows administrators to edit content through an admin panel that is then shown and displays on the public frontend of the website. Often there are several levels of users who have control over the content on the website, these can be super admins, copy writers and editors. Using a special access control system through the web browser creators and editors can manage documents within the CMS. Overall the content management system controls and allows admins to manage workflows and business processes.

Generally all content in the CMS is stored in an online database system. This database system allows for quick and easy access by all applications and also affords strong security and backup capabilities. This kind of system also allows for version control of web pages.

Working with websites based on CMS is easy and the content of the website can be managed by a person which has no HTML knowledge. That person will simply use WYSIWYG editor very much the same like a word editor.

CMS based websites can become very complex websites with much less web development efforts, time consuming and... not at last these websites are cost effective comparing with classic websites.

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