Content Management System (CMS)
A Content Management System (CMS) is a dynamic application built in PHP allowing to update a website content by using an administrator interface. Users just have to know their username and password and, without any programming knowledge or hard work on page code, they get access to this interface and may modify the databases where the website content is located.
As far as a CMS integrates a cascading style sheet (CSS), modifications done on the administrator interface have no consequence on any attached style sheet file or on any part of the page code itself. Nonetheless, the Webmaster can change the CSS without any consequence on the databases and therefore on the CMS content.
A CMS allow our clients:
- to update their website content,
- to communicate simultaneously with any other user of the administrator interface (by mail for example),
- to organize the content and therefore the sitemap, categories may define a content,
- to add new applications such as a vote widget on the sidebar.
A CMS helps you to update your content but it can’t promote your brand or your products by itself. The most efficient way to promote is the multimedia, which means pictures, animations, sounds and interactivity. If you just need a blog, a CMS is sufficient. In other case, it can just be an eventual part of your website. You should integrate a CMS into your website in case you often need to update your content.