What is a Content Management System?

A Content Management System (CMS) is a System used to manage content on a web-site. Content Management Systems can be seen as a means to manage documents or content using logical work flows of creation, classification, modification, deletion, maintenance and more. Content Management Systems for the web, provide you, the Site Administrator with the tools you need to create web site content.

A CMS makes it all so easy! You add content via a password protected control panel, it appears instantly on your website for your customers to view. Simple.Depending on the complexity of the CMS various tasks may be achieved

You can:

• Update text areas on any page
• Add new buttons to the web site or new links
• Upload and show images on a web site
• Update Meta Data on pages for better search ranking
• Add and remove products to an online product database
• and much more!

These tasks are typical examples of the functionality available with a CMS.

A Content Management System will help organise who is doing what and who has rights to do what on a web site, for example, If you deal with any web professionals that update your sites meta data for better search rankings on keywords that you provide them, with a content management system you could organise a username and password with specific rights to allow them to update only certain parts of your site.