Content management system

A content management system (CMS) allows you to do the following:

• Manage content

• Set content management rules

• Define content

Manage content

Managing content means allowing a user to create, publish, edit, and organize content. A good CMS assumes that the user has no technical knowledge. Hence, it provides an easy-to-comprehend user interface for managing content. A flexible CMS will maintain ease of use, even for a novice, and yet give much flexibility to the professional. Publishing the content must extend beyond just displaying the content, and should include designing how the content is shown, making the content accessible, and allowing easy search of the content, based on various criteria.

Content management rules

Content management rules allow the management of content to be delegated and distributed from just one user to many. Different access levels can be granted to different groups, and users can belong to one or more of the defined groups.

Define content

Managing content is fine, but what exactly is content? A good CMS allows the end user to define what content is. Content can be anything! It can be raw text, pictures, videos, music, or a combination of a few, or all, of them. A necessity in any CMS is to allow the user to define the possible types of content and give such types a name.