Content Management Systems (CMS)
Content Management Systems (CMS) are
a collection of processes and technologies that enable the
collection of data and media for easy management and uniform
presentation.
CMS is commonly used for all types of web sites from home
pages to corporate and blogger web sites. The main advantages
of CMS over sites comprised of individually made web pages is
that once the system is installed onto a web site no html or
web development experience is required to add new content and
create new web pages while still maintaining a professional
look and conforming to a corporate or otherwise pre-ordained
design policy.
CMS usually involves a database from which individual data and
page content is drawn to fill templates to create the web
pages on the fly (as and when required). For example the most
basic CMS page would be comprised of a header, menu, main body
and footer. The page would be built on the fly according to a
request sent to the database such as a topic name. The
database response would provide the heading and main body of
information and as the page loads, it would assemble the
templates in their order and drop in the information where
designated.
There is no limit to how sophisticated a CMS can be or the
features that can be added or removed at any time from the
administration pages. Any changes to the templates can affect
every page on a web site enabling a CMS administrator to
completely change the design theme of a site by altering a few
settings.
CMS enables several sites to share a common theme regardless
of the contributing authors. It also enables several different
looking sites to share a common database and resources.
Restricting access to web site content is easily managed
within a CMS because it only needs a single insert on each
page to enforce password protection and other security
restrictions.
The difference between Content Management System (CMS) and
DRM
CMS and
Digital Rights
Management (DRM) are different. CMS is a solution for providing
easily managed web content of uniform theme and whereas access
to web pages can be controlled per group level by password DRM
focuses on persistent protection of digital content by
preventing access, copying or conversion to other formats.
However the basis of any DRM solution will be a CMS and the
Access Rights Management
can sometimes be added by simply
modifying one existing template.
Likewise, adding copy protection (like
CopySafe Web) to
existing web pages produced by a CMS is as simple as adding
some html to an existing page template.
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