A Content Management System, or CMS for short, is a way to manage data in a collaborative setting. Specific to web design, it is termed Web Content Management, or WCMS, and is a software based program that is used as a Web application in order to create and manage various web material, including HTML, images, and other media files.
WCMS can empower users with little web development knowledge with the ability to create dynamic sites, by providing a set of templates, backed by the infrastructure to create, edit and store the inputted content. Some other features common to WCMS is the options of additional plug-ins or modules, in which users can add to the site to increase its functionality, the ability for multiple users to author and edit content, as well as the ability to limit which users have certain editing capabilities. Websites using CMS are very common, and most closely associated with blogs, but is also used for commercial websites, online publications such as newspapers or magazines, and many other sites that have a lot of content and the need to access it with ease.
One example of a CMS is Wordpress, a popular open source blog publishing application. Released in 2003, it has grown in popularity due to its ease of use and flexibility, and now boasts 62.8 million websites in the US, and 202 million websites worldwide. Written with PHP and SQL, it is a template based system that allows users to switch between themes, arrange widgets, etc., without changing either the PHP or HTML code. Within each blog post, Wordpress has a clean permalink format, the ability to tag posts and other articles, and the ability to “Trackback” and “Pingback” in order to display links to the sites that have linked to that post.
Other popular CMS include Moveable Type, TypePad, Blogger/Blogspot, Drupal, and Joomla.
WCMS can empower users with little web development knowledge with the ability to create dynamic sites, by providing a set of templates, backed by the infrastructure to create, edit and store the inputted content. Some other features common to WCMS is the options of additional plug-ins or modules, in which users can add to the site to increase its functionality, the ability for multiple users to author and edit content, as well as the ability to limit which users have certain editing capabilities. Websites using CMS are very common, and most closely associated with blogs, but is also used for commercial websites, online publications such as newspapers or magazines, and many other sites that have a lot of content and the need to access it with ease.
One example of a CMS is Wordpress, a popular open source blog publishing application. Released in 2003, it has grown in popularity due to its ease of use and flexibility, and now boasts 62.8 million websites in the US, and 202 million websites worldwide. Written with PHP and SQL, it is a template based system that allows users to switch between themes, arrange widgets, etc., without changing either the PHP or HTML code. Within each blog post, Wordpress has a clean permalink format, the ability to tag posts and other articles, and the ability to “Trackback” and “Pingback” in order to display links to the sites that have linked to that post.
Other popular CMS include Moveable Type, TypePad, Blogger/Blogspot, Drupal, and Joomla.
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