CMS
Content is being generated at a furious pace and as a logical fallout, Content Management has become an enterprise wide issue to be handled with a sound strategy
A CMS (Content Management System) can be perceived as a hybrid technology ofwebsite maintenance and document management system – The delivery, addition, modification or deletion of new or updated content can be achieved simultaneously from different points. Web is being ruled by the introduction of new content every second and in this situation, if we are burdened with a monolithic structure. The management of content should be flexible and systematic.
Some of the fundamental features of a standard CMS are:
- Completely database driven site engines
- News, products, or services sections fully editable and manageable
- Topics sections can be added to by contributing Authors
- Fully customisable layouts including left, center, and right Menu boxes
- Browser upload of images to your own library for use anywhere in the site
- Dynamic Forum/Poll/Voting booth for on-the-spot results
- Import of multi-formatted documents – text, graphics, videos, music..
- Allocate different privilege or roles to different users of the website – admin, author,
contributor..etc, - Presence of an alert or notification system where managers or admin are informed of any changes to the existing content
- Version control is also one of the basic features of a standard CMS. It gives the site administrator a complete control over the management of document versions
- A standard CMS is supported by a centralized archive where all the published documents are stored. This facilitates a rapid search facility for documents within the site
- At present, most of the CMS are equipped with a robust editing system which gives the content creator a complete control over the formatting of the documents
