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What is a Content Management System?

The short version: A Content Management System is a website that we set up for you that you can edit yourself! Once set up, we will teach you how to create new pages, edit existing pages, add photos, etc.

As administrator of your own website, you are in complete control over the content of your site. You can add users, create pages for public viewing and also create pages for registered users only. You decide who’s registered. Call 505-750-1521 for more information.

We use WordPress Content Management System. It’s great because it’s open source and many great programmers collaborate on it to keep it up to date.

The long version: A Content Management System (CMS) is a software system used for content management. Content management systems are deployed primarily for interactive use by a potentially large number of contributors. For example, the software for the website Wikipedia is based on a content management system.

The content managed includes computer files, image media, audio files, electronic documents and web content. The idea behind a CMS is to make these files available inter-office, as well as over the web. A Content Management System would most often be used as archival as well. Many companies use a CMS to store files in a non-proprietary form. Companies use a CMS to share files with ease, as most systems use server based software, even further broadening file availability. As shown below, many Content Management Systems include a feature for Web Content, and some have a feature for a “workflow process.”

“Work flow” is the idea of moving an electronic document along for either approval, or for adding content. Some Content Management Systems will easily facilitate this process with email notification, and automated routing. This is ideally a collaborative creation of documents. A CMS facilitates the organization, control, and publication of a large body of documents and other content, such as images and multimedia resources.

A web content management system is a content management system with additional features to ease the tasks required to publish web content to web sites.

Web content management systems are often used for storing, controlling, versioning, and publishing industry-specific documentation such as news articles, operators’ manuals, technical manuals, sales guides, and marketing brochures. A content management system may support the following features:

• · Import and creation of documents and multimedia material
• · Identification of all key users and their content management roles
• · The ability to assign roles and responsibilities to different content categories or types.
• · Definition of the content workflow tasks, often coupled with event messaging so that content managers are alerted to changes in content.
• · The ability to track and manage multiple versions of a single instance of content.
• · The ability to publish the content to a repository to support access to the content. Increasingly, the repository is an inherent part of the system, and incorporates enterprise search and retrieval.
• · Some content management systems allow the textual aspect of content to be separated to some extent from formatting. For example the CMS may automatically set default color, fonts, or layout.