Content Management

What is Content Management System (CMS)?


vA good CMS can have these features :
• Allows the non-technical core business personnel to author/publish content without the assistance of IT staff (web developers)
• Separates the actual content from the structure (look-and-feel) by allowing an easy way to create templates and associated rules/presentation files
• Ensures that the content contributors adhere to the organization's website standards and also maintain security and navigational elements
• Ensures a mechanism to publish content in a timely manner so that the website
information is always up to date
• Consolidates business data and content in a single storage repository for faster
retrieval and also reduces the cost of maintaining hardcopy versions of content
• Allows authoring content via standard web browsers thus reducing training needs


Features of a Good CMS


• Allows easy creation/management of CMS users, groups, and roles
• Provides a built-in rich text editing interface to allow content authoring with
extensive features like formatting, hyperlinks support, image/file upload, and
copy-paste from other authoring applications
• Rules out the need to install any software on the end user machines
• Supports multiple simultaneous users
• Supports indexing/searching on the basis of metadata for the content
• Provides an extensive reporting system for both end users and system administrators

What is a Content?

-Conveys information to a user
-Is stored electronically as a file of a particular type :
•Document
•Web page
•XML document
•Report
•Executable
•Engineering drawing
•Scanned image
•Audio or video file
•Thumbnail file
•Record


Definition in short:

Content management is the organizing, categorizing, and structuring of information
resources (text, images, documents, etc.) so that they can be stored, published, and edited with ease and flexibility.
A content management system (CMS) is used to collect, manage, and publish content, storing the content either as components or whole documents, while maintaining dynamic links between components.