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Content Management Systems

Content Management Systems. Marcel Wilson. Content Management System. Supports the creation, management, distribution, and publishing of your website. Manages the lifecycle of pages on your site, allows you to create content, publish it, and as time goes on - archive it.

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Content Management Systems

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  1. Content Management Systems Marcel Wilson

  2. Content Management System • Supports the creation, management, distribution, and publishing of your website. • Manages the lifecycle of pages on your site, allows you to create content, publish it, and as time goes on - archive it. • Helps keep a uniform universal appearance to published content. • Uses HTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript, & MySQL.

  3. Content Management System • Saves all post and pages in a central location. • Keeps track of version updates to page or posts, and who made changes. • Allows you to put restrictions on other editors to only update the portion of the site they’re responsible for. • Complete control over visually quality, content accuracy and consistency. • Great for archiving.

  4. CMS Benefits • Easy site updates • More visual consistency • Great site navigation • Increased security • Greater capacity for growth • Web based admin panel • Reduced site maintenance costs

  5. Popular CMS Programs • Drupal: Highly customizable + Good for web developers who know code + Complex content organization • Joomla: In between Drupal & WordPress as far as usability • WordPress: Simple blogging + friendly to non-developers + platform capable of building complex sites. • These are all open source and have knowledgeable and user friendly communties

  6. Customization and Upgrades • Drupal: Manual upgrade, backup old files & data, remove and replace all the old Drupal files. If you don’t do this right, you could lose your whole site. To edit themes you have to download a plugin or customize offline. • Joomla: Extension Manager, or login to the admin UI panel to update. Sometimes you will have to update manually. To edit themes you have to download a plugin or customize offline. • Wordpress: login through the admin UI panel to make updates. Wordpress alerts you of new updates. You can update manually if you please, but don’t have too. Themes are edited in the admin screen.

  7. Plugins & Themes • Drupal: 32,266 Modules & 2,188 Themes • Joomla: 7,467 Extensions & ??? • Wordpress: 40,911 Plugins & 2,050 Themes

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