What is Content Management System?
content
management system is a software application or a set of related programs that are
used to create and manage digital content. It begins by helping you launch
digital content to a more robust system that is core to managing an overall
digital experience.
They are
generally used for web content management(WCM) and enterprise content management(ECM).
Enterprise
content management software promotes collaboration within the organization workspace
with the integration of records retention functionalities, management of digital
assets for the end-users and document management and providing access based on
roles to the company’s digital assets for the end-users.
Both WCM and
ECM have two components: a content delivery application(CDA) and a content
management application(CMA). The CMA is a Graphical User Interface(GUI) that
enables user to handle the generation, removal and modification of a content
from a website without the need for having any knowledge in Back-end Web Development.
CMS is able to manage SQL database systems without the interfere from the user.
What are features of CMS?
Features vary
among different offering of CMS but the core functions include search and
retrieval, indexing, revision control and publishing, and format management.
Retrieval and search features, and intuitive indexing archives the whole data
for easy access for visitor to the website.
Format management
facilities conversion the legacy electronic documents and scanned paper
documents and scanned paper documents into PDF or HTML documents. Revision
features enable content to be edited and updated after initial publication. Publishing
functionality enables users to utilize a set of templates or a template
approved by the company, as well as wizards and various other tools to generate
or modify content like posts or pages.
What are types of CMS?
A content
management system can be broken down into three major types
· Open Source
CMS : the most popular
Open Source content management systems run on mySQL and PHP(server-side
scripting language used in back-end web development). Wordpress, Drupal are
major examples. These CMS can be used by anyone for any purpose and you need
not purchase a license or any special-permissions to customize. The have a lot of
plugins and complementary tools to help develop your website easily and also
there are many tools to help in SEO optimization.
· Proprietary
CMS: Many
organizations sell licenses to help you use their own CMS. Proprietary means
the owner ship of that application and others must purchase license from the
company to use the CMS
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