Content management system

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;
• separate the structure of a web page form its content
• manage the content and easely structure it
• publish the content
• structurate the content

Resources

• OpenSourceCMS: you can try a CMS before installing it
• cms matrix: useful to compare the features of different CMS

Open Source Softwares

• typo3
• Mambo Server
• Joomla: fork of mambo server
• SPIP