Summary

Earlier chapters provided us with a tool kit to deal with a wide range of underlying problems, whose solution is needed for many Web applications. When it comes to dealing with the actual content that defines a website, the possibilities are limited only by our imaginations.

We have reviewed the main categories of content provision, including brief discussions of the issues that arise with them. More obscure categories were briefly considered.

The workings of a simple blog application have been investigated in detail so that we can see how content management works out in practice. It still takes a significant amount of code to achieve this simple system, a fact that illustrates the theme of concern over the productivity of the Web development process.

But the simple blog system provides a working base and illustrates the way in which features of the CMS framework enhance application development. We finally have some content in our content management system!