[Hidden-tech] Renamed: Content Management Systems

[Wesley Rosner]

I would like to toss my two cents in here and say that many of these 
CMS systems are not the solution at least for some of our clients.  
While CMS systems do ease the pain of maintaining a web site for a 
large site they are typically still fairly unwieldy.  I have recently 
been coupled the terms Content Management System with Dynamic 
Publishing.  The systems we put in place usually provide fairly 
specific meta data for the specific type of content.  This allows us to 
put together dynamic templates/pages that draw on a variety of content 
by using and cross referencing of keywords or other meta-data.  I am 
certainly pro CMS and pro open-source, but find those solutions don't 
always meet the real needs of my customers.

-Wes

On Apr 28, 2005, at 3:14 PM, Daniel Fried wrote:

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> Sorry for the rename, I think we're getting off the original subject
> though...
>
> One caveat to your description Mark...
>
> Not all CMS's support or require editing through the browser (or even
> necessarily refer to websites, but that's a different issue).  
> Macromedia
> makes a product called Contribute which is an offline CMS.  Also, a 
> number
> of Blog software packages support editing through external 
> applications like
> w.Bloggar which run on your system, I'm sure other CMS's support this 
> kind
> of interface as well.
>
> -Dan
>
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> Bobbi Melville wrote:
>
>> Can someone explain what you mean by "content management?"
>
> content = web site text and graphics
> management = add/edit/delete content via your browser.
>
> Typically, the web site admin can define user/password login accounts
> for people that are allowed to edit the site.
>
> Many systems provide control over editing capabilities; for example,
> your press agent login can only edit pages under 
> http://yoursite.com//news.
>
> More advanced systems allow you to define roles by login account; for
> example, "contributor" and "editor".  A contributor may upload content,
> but that content is not made live on your site until an editor 
> approves it.
>
> This site is great:
>
>     http://www.opensourcecms.com/
>
> They have free on-line demos for many many Free Software content
> managment systems; for example, the WordPress demo is here:
>
>     
> http://www.opensourcecms.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=144
>
> Regards,
>
> Mark
>
>
>
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