Updated: July 11, 2020 (August 19, 2002)
SidebarWhat Is Content Management?
Content management or Internet publishing software like CMS is designed to help multiple workers or teams within an organization collaborate to create complex Web sites.
Web sites are typically implemented on a Web server as a file hierarchy of HTML, script (e.g., JavaScript, Perl, or Active Server Pages), and graphics files, and are sometimes linked to one or more database servers containing dynamic data such as product data, purchases, inventories, customer information, and schedules. Although a skilled Web developer can create and manage a small Internet or intranet site with only text and graphics editors, this method does not scale to large sites when multiple authors and thousands of pages are involved. Simpler Web authoring tools, such as Microsoft’s FrontPage or Macromedia’s Dreamweaver, are similarly unhelpful.
Content management software, on the other hand, is designed to facilitate collaboration and help manage the complex Web sites that result.
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