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A content management system (or CMS) is a system used to organise and facilitate collaborative content creation. Recently, the term has been associated almost entirely with programs for managing the content of web sites. Web Content Management (WCM) is also used to refer to these programs.* CMS span a wide variety of needs; from small systems for personal web pages, to big ones, dealing with large database-based systems for running the content of several web pages. CMS normally include user group managing tools communicating with content creation ones. I.e. there may be several independent dedicated user groups: CMS often has functions for version control, to keep track of the history of the different versions of an item. Currently the companies that develop and sell/distribute CMS are implementing more and more functions to make them as attractive as possible. Typically, modules (newsletters, search engines, discussion forums, etc) that are used when building a web site become popular. A set of these may be chosen regarding demands. Today many of these features are also regarded as part of the CMS. * from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. |
