What is a Content Management System?
A Content Management System, or CMS, is a software solution used to create and manage the content of a Web site. A CMS offers many benefits, including distributed content management, simple content publishing with Web forms (“WYSIWYG editor”), reusable content repositories, centralized graphic management, workflow controls, security, and content archiving. JSC Marketing currently supports the most current versions of Joomla, WordPress, and Drupal for CMS purposes. Our staff can install and support these PHP, MySQL database-driven applications, as well create custom templates for your Joomla, WordPress, or Drupal Web site. We have also developed custom interfaces, components, and modules to suit any business’ needs.
A content management system (CMS) facilitates the updating of content via a word processing-type interface. The updating of content was a major deficiency of USF’s old site because not enough people knew how to make changes. CMS training for USF faculty and staff is being offered through USF’s Center for Instruction & Technology. In some cases in the past, a department representative would put up a page and then the person would graduate or move on and there would be no one in the office who knew how to update the content. That led to content remaining active on the site well past its usefulness.
A content management system (CMS) is used for creating, organizing, and publishing Web-based documents and other content. It allows non-technical users to create and maintain a Web site. A CMS often is a collaborative system, where several people create and maintain content on the same site. A document in a CMS can be a Web page, an article, a PDF file, a manual, or almost any other content. You’re looking at an example of a CMS right now. (This FAQ entry is a document on our Plone CMS-based Web site.) The Plone CMS (which Abiliba uses and supports) can be extended through the installation of applications. Plone can be used for a variety of purposes: general-purpose Web sites, on-line stores, blogs, forums, shared content on intranets, news sites, etc. A CMS actually does a lot more “behind the scenes.” It can automatically create navigation menus, index content to make it searchable, keep track of users, limit access to content, and much more.
