[Hidden-tech] Looking for reasonable Web host

[Daniel Fried]

As someone who has a business that creates customized "Content Management
Systems", let me say that, in my opinion, the term is a bit overused.

If forced to come up with a simple definition, a CMS is a system for editing
content that involves separating the content from the structure of that
content to make editing easier.  This means that if you want to add a new
page to your CMS enabled website, you would select an option in the CMS
software to add a page, then enter the contents of that page as text; the
CMS would handle making sure that the HTML was generated properly, that the
page matched the look and feel of your site and that links to the new page
were properly added to other pages (ok, that model is a bit simplified, but
a very basic CMS would do just that).  Many pre-built shopping cart
solutions and blog software packages would also count as content management
systems.

There are a lot of CMS's out in the wild, there are free ones, there are
$30,000 ones and there are ones that come with your hosting or are part of
the price of developing a website (that's what we do).

Wikipedia has an ok definition as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_management_system

Hope that helps.

-Dan Fried
Creative Constructs

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Can someone explain what you mean by "content management?"  I've used 
Osiriscomm.com for several clients for years and have been very happy 
with them. They have very good statistics, which we find informative 
and helpful for fine tuning the sites.

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