Content Management System
Why would you use a Content Management System (CMS)? On this page we will give you some highlights about the benefits of such a CMS system.
What is a CMS
A CMS is a web application you run on your web server to help facilitate creating a website. A good CMS should be flexible, unobtrusive and help you to make a great site. It should provide you with tools to help the layman keep track of content, while letting more experienced webmasters handle look and feel. It should also provide tools to make repetitive things less repetitive. Like, for example, News entries.
Advantages
Key advantages for using a CMS are:
- If you know how to use Microsoft Office or Apple Pages you can also edit your site.
- Content and layout are seperated.
- Multiple roles so a text editor could not mess up the entire website.
- Interactive functionality; from search box to customer logins.
CMS Made Simple
For years now we've been supporting and using CMS Made Simple: This is an open source ( GPL) package first released in July 2004. CMS Made Simple provides a mechanism for the website administrator to create and manage "pages", their layout, and their content. CMS Made Simple is unobtrusive. You can create a table based layout, or a fully validating XHTML/CSS layout.
CMS Made Simple makes managing the navigation in your website a breeze. You can re-organize your pages any way you want, and navigations are automatically created from your page hierarchy. This tool makes creating numerous different navigations with the entire page hierarchy, or a subset of it "simple".
CMS Made Simple separates layout code from content code, so that editors can manage content without having to know much about how websites work, so that layouts can be easily edited and take effect on numerous pages, and can be easily shared. With CMS Made Simple you design once, and easily use that same design over and over again.
