Content Management System aka CMS: Is A CMS Right For You?


by Jim Weltzin - Date: 2007-02-23 - Word Count: 451 Share This!

Wikipedia.org describes a CMS as:

A content management system (CMS) is a computer software system used to assist its users in the process of content management. CMS facilitates the organization, control, and publication of a large body of documents and other content, such as images and multimedia resources. A CMS often facilitates the collaborative creation of documents. A web content management system is a content management system with additional features to ease the tasks required to publish web content to Web sites.

Web Content management systems are often used for storing, controlling, versioning, and publishing industry-specific documentation such as news articles, operators' manuals, technical manuals, sales guides, and marketing brochures. A content management system may support the following features: Import and creation of documents and multimedia material Identification of all key users and their content management roles The ability to assign roles and responsibilities to different content categories or types. Definition of the content workflow tasks, often coupled with event messaging so that content managers are alerted to changes in content. The ability to track and manage multiple versions of a single instance of content. The ability to publish the content to a repository to support access to the content. Increasingly, the repository is an inherent part of the system, and incorporates enterprise search and retrieval. Some content management systems allow the textual aspect of content to be separated to some extent from formatting. For example the CMS may automatically set default color, fonts, or layout.

There is an ever increasing number of webmasters that are using CMS's as the foundations for their websites. The reason a CMS is popular so often is it doesn't require programming knowledge, there are many different themes that have already been written and there are many different modules that can be installed to extend the capabilities of the CMS.

These modules let you add things like guest books, sitemaps, ecommerce, photo galleries and much more without knowing how to write programs.

There are a few things that turn some webmasters off when thinking about Content Management Systems and these are: The systems are database driven and are often slower loading than other sites, especially if a lot of modules are used. These systems aren't usually as search engine friendly as other types of sites. The core system and different modules are often written by different programmers so there is no guarantee the coding will be as clean or secure across each module you use.

You know your skill set, your comfort level in working with different technologies, the focus of your website and the experience you want your visitors to have so you know whether Drupal, PostNuke, Joomla! Or one of the other Content Management Systems fits your needs.


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