Content Management Systems
Content Management Systems are computer applications that are used to create, edit, manage, search and publish information on your website. The content managed can include various types of information including: computer files, image media, audio files, video files, electronic documents and web content. A CMS that is solely designed to manage web content facilitates content creation, content control, editing and many other essential web maintenance functions. A CMS basically allows content creators to submit content to their website without requiring any technical knowledge of HTML, web development or uploading of information to the Internet. Content Management Systems make your website easy to use and easy to edit without any special knowledge of code. This enables your website to be simple to manage, maintain, user-friendly, and possibly as simple as editing an email.
A Content Management System may also be designed with additional features to ease the maintenance of your website. Some of these features include:
• The identification of key users and their content management roles
• The ability to assign roles and responsibilities
• Workflow tasks for collaboration creation, usually uses event messaging (ex: content is edited, however it cannot be published unless approved)
• The ability to track and manage multiple versions of a single instance of content
• The ability to create automated templates to be applied to new and existing content
• The ability to capture content (scanning)
• The ability to publish content to a repository
• The separation of content’s semantic layer from its layout