While researching for our group project I came across a lot of Content Management Systems, which helps people create web pages and other related content systems. A fellow fraternity brother of mine manages a server through one of these CMS’s. My curiosity got the best of me and I had to look into it more to try and understand it.
CMS, according to Wikipedia, is a computer application used to create, edit, manage, and publish content in a consistently organized fashion. Types of content stored on these servers include computer files image media audio and video files, electronic documents and web content. I had to find another site to get a more in-depth understanding of what these CMS’s are and how they function. I found a site dedicated to CMS which had a lot of good information of it. It stated that it allows users to manage content The site broke down a very confusing term into one much simpler definition, “A CMS is a tool that enables a variety of (centralized) technical and (de-centralized) non technical staff to create, edit, manage and finally publish (in a number of formats) a variety of content (such as text, graphics, video, documents etc), whilst being constrained by a centralized set of rules, process and workflows that ensure coherent, validated electronic content.” Essentially, it allows people of all ranges of electronic intelligence to store digital information, ranging from a family member starting and maintaining a family web site, to our campuses Novell portal and our classes page out site.
Some examples of popular CMS sites are Joomla, Drupal and PHP-Nuke. All three have detailed information about what they offer and are good examples for the numerous CMS types offered electronically. These are all great examples of how far we have come electronically. Within ten years, I went from waiting hours to not hear a busy signal, to being able to store and readily refer to content of my choosing. Though today this may not be an interest of mine, it’s good to know that one day this option may help my life.
CMS, according to Wikipedia, is a computer application used to create, edit, manage, and publish content in a consistently organized fashion. Types of content stored on these servers include computer files image media audio and video files, electronic documents and web content. I had to find another site to get a more in-depth understanding of what these CMS’s are and how they function. I found a site dedicated to CMS which had a lot of good information of it. It stated that it allows users to manage content The site broke down a very confusing term into one much simpler definition, “A CMS is a tool that enables a variety of (centralized) technical and (de-centralized) non technical staff to create, edit, manage and finally publish (in a number of formats) a variety of content (such as text, graphics, video, documents etc), whilst being constrained by a centralized set of rules, process and workflows that ensure coherent, validated electronic content.” Essentially, it allows people of all ranges of electronic intelligence to store digital information, ranging from a family member starting and maintaining a family web site, to our campuses Novell portal and our classes page out site.
Some examples of popular CMS sites are Joomla, Drupal and PHP-Nuke. All three have detailed information about what they offer and are good examples for the numerous CMS types offered electronically. These are all great examples of how far we have come electronically. Within ten years, I went from waiting hours to not hear a busy signal, to being able to store and readily refer to content of my choosing. Though today this may not be an interest of mine, it’s good to know that one day this option may help my life.
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