Content Management System Design

Content Management System design, also known as CMS design, is a permissions based Web application that allows different users or content contributors to maintain certain aspects of a Website. Through a Web interface, the users can securely log in to their own administration area and given their level of permissions are able to add or edit content with the use of a WYSIWYG editor, not unlike Microsoft Word.

No HTML Knowledge Required

CMS allows the non-programmer to add, edit Web pages and content without programming knowledge. If you have basic computer skills and you can use a word processing application like Word, WordPerfect, OpenOffice or WordPad then you can consider yourself a CMS user.

Template Driven

There are hundreds of commercial and open source CMS Web applications available. All of which have certain strengths and weaknesses. As a Web designer, I prefer open source systems that have a framework which is database driven (my favorite is  MySQL) with PHP as the primary scripting language.  Most importantly (as a visual designer) I tend toward a content management system with a  separation of theme (templates) and programming scripts. In clearer terms,  it’s a template-based system which controls the look and style of the front-end without having to muck with the core files.

Open Source v. Proprietary

The primary benefits of using open source software versus commercial proprietary software are many. Firstly, the customer doesn’t have to pay exorbitant licensing fees required with proprietary software. As the name implies, “Open Source” is open code which the programmer can make changes as the client needs.

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