CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

If you want to manage the content of your web site without worrying about HTML, CSS and other technical stuff you should seriously think about using a Content Management System for you web site.

A content management system (or CMS) also referred as Web Content Management (WCM) is a software used to organize and facilitate collaborative web site content creation and update.

CMSs allow end-users (typically authors) to create new content in the form of documents. These documents may be entered as plain text or with markups to manage document layout and structure.

Typically, a CMS consists of two elements: the content management application (CMA) and the content delivery application (CDA).

The CMA element allows the content manager or author, who may not know Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), to manage the creation, modification, and removal of content from a Web site without needing the expertise of a Webmaster.

The CDA element uses and compiles that information to update the Web site.

The features of a CMS system vary, but most include Web-based publishing, format management, revision control, and indexing, search, and retrieval.

There are a lot of CMSs: commercial, free and open source.