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

Small CMS

We call most of these C3MS or portals...

"Web 2.0" systems

Not sure what that means :)

Special purpose systems for education

Not that these are the only ones ...