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Revision as of 11:55, 27 September 2005
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
Resources
- OpenSourceCMS: you can try a CMS before installing it
- cms matrix: useful to compare the features of different CMS
Open Source Softwares
- typo3: PHP and MySQL
- Mambo Server: PHP and MySQL
- Joomla: fork of mambo server. PHP and MySQL
- SPIP: PHP and MySQL
- CMSimple Content Management: no database needed, PHP powered
Please note, that wikis or blogs are also included into the CMS family. This page will only show some examples of CMS used for managing a dynamical website.