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Topic: What do Content Management Systems do?

I have always been confused by the explanations I have gotten as to what these systems do?

Is it outsourcing the documentation of your website? Is this a way of automating your website?

I would love to hear more about these systems.

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Re: What do Content Management Systems do?

Hi Red,

A content management system essentially does what the name says. Its a method of efficiently and quickly updating content on your web pages.  Pretty much all sizable sites these days are built on a CMS for ease of updating. Just as with other systems there are also a broad range of systems out there some more complex than others. For example although Wordpress is technically a blogging application it can be used very effectively for a small site content management. I'd recommend checking out these links below to see some of example CMS systems out there:

http://www.joomla.org/
http://drupal.org/
http://www.movabletype.org/
http://modxcms.com/
http://expressionengine.com/

Hope that helps wink

Last edited by eth0 (2009-10-22 08:32:32)