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Content Management Systems

03.26.2012

Content Management System Video Presentation

Web Content Management System

A Web Content Management System (WCMS) is a software system that provides website authoring, collaboration, and administration tools designed to allow users with little knowledge of web programming languages or markup languages to create and manage website content with relative ease. A robust WCMS provides the foundation for collaboration, offering users the ability to manage documents and output for multiple author editing and participation.

Most systems use a Content Repository or a database to store page content, metadata, and other information assets that might be needed by the system.

A presentation layer displays the content to website visitors based on a set of templates. The templates are sometimes XSLT files.

Most systems use server side caching to improve performance. This works best when the WCMS is not changed often but visits happen regularly.

Administration is typically done through browser based interfaces, but some systems require the use of a fat client.

A WCMS allows non-technical users to make changes to a website with little training. A WCMS typically requires a systems administrator and/or a web developer to set up and add features, but it is primarily a website maintenance tool for non-technical staff.

A web content management system is used to control a dynamic collection of Web material, including HTML documents, images, and other forms of media. A CMS facilitates document control, auditing, editing, and timeline management. A WCMS typically has the following features:

Template Configuration

Create standard output templates (usually HTML and XML) that can be automatically applied to new and existing content, allowing the appearance of all content to be changed from one central place.

Administrative Control

Some WCMS systems support user Groups. User Groups allow you to control how registered users interact with the site. A page on the site can be restricted to one or more groups. This means an Anonymous User (someone not logged on), or a Logged on User who is not a member of the Group a page is restricted to, will be denied access to the page.

Multiple Content Exchange

Available in most modern WCMSs is the ability to expand a single implementation (one installation on one server) across multiple domains, depending on the server’s settings. WCMS sites may be able to create microsites/web portals within a main site as well.

Easily editable content

Once content is separated from the visual presentation of a site, it usually becomes much easier and quicker to edit and manipulate. Most WCMS software includes WYSIWYG editing tools allowing non-technical users to create and edit content.

Integration with Other Sites

Most WCMS software includes plug-ins or modules that can be easily installed to extend an existing site’s functionality.

Content Application

CMS software may provide a means of allowing each user to work within a virtual copy of the entire Web site, document set, and/or code base. This enables changes to multiple interdependent resources to be viewed and/or executed in-context prior to submission.

There are more numerous features inside each and every Platinum Control Panel by Veretekk. To register for your own single content management system, or even the multiple manager called the Platinum Control Panel, return to the homepage.

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