Content Management System

I have been recently tasked at work to make a website for the company I work for. And to be honest, I had zero experience in making a website from scratch. The only thing I knew was to make blogs from Blogger, Wordpress, and Multiply.

Luckily for me, I found out that Wordpress has CMS (Content Management System), which is also offered by Joomla and Drupal. And to top it off, all three are open-source, which is a fancy term for being free. BTW, I am sure there are others out there but these three came out on top.

In case you don't know what CMS means, Webopedia has the definition as follows:

Abbreviated as CMS, a content management system, also called a Web management system is software or a group or suite of applications and tools that enable an organization to seamlessly create, edit, review and publish electronic text. Many content management systems offer a Web-based GUI, enabling publishers to access the CMS online using only a Web browser. Also, a CMS designed for Web publishing will provide options and features to index and search documents and also specify keywords and other metadata for search engine crawlers.

Some advantages cited in using CMS are as follows:

• Increased control over the web site
• Improved speed to market in terms of content changes
• Lower cost per page
• Decreased total cost of maintaining the website

In short, CMS just made my life easier. Although I still need to learn a few HTML and CSS commands, I can now design and create a real website with almost no knowledge of both HTML and CSS. Yup you heard me right. A real live customized website.