Content management system

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Introduction

A content management system (CMS) is a system that permits to create and to organise the creation of content. Generally a CMS is a multiuser web based application that manages a website.

Generally all CMS have different common features:

  • users don't need to have HTML expertises, WYSIWYG or WiKi syntaxt solutions are implemented to help the users to create or to edit the content of a web page;
  • separate the structure of a web page from its content
  • manage the content and easely structure it
  • easy publish the content
  • easy structurate the content
  • easy installation of a CMS
  • default templates for the graphical appearance, possibility to download other templates.
  • easy change the templates (directly via CSS files)
  • easy administration of the website via a web interface
  • multi language support for administration tools
  • sometimes possibility to stock the different versions of an edited page
  • multiusers

Resources

Open Source Softwares

Please note, that wikis, blogs and portals are also included into the CMS family. This page will only show some examples of CMS used for managing a dynamical website. Categroy: Technologies