What is Content management system ?

content management system (CMS) is a system used to manage the content of a Web site.[1] Content management systems are deployed primarily for interactive use by a potentially large number of contributors.

Web content management systems:

Web content management systems are often used for storing, controlling, versioning, and publishing industry-specific documentation such as news articles, operators' manuals, technical manuals, sales guides, and marketing brochures. A content management system may support the following features:

 

* only of documents and multimedia material,

* Identification of all key users and their content management roles

* The ability to assign roles and responsibilities to different content categories or types.

* Definition of the content work flow tasks, often coupled with event messaging so that content managers are alerted to changes in content.

* The ability to track and manage multiple versions of a single instance of content.

* The ability to publish the content to a repository to support access to the content. Increasingly, the repository is an inherent part of the system, and incorporates enterprise search and retrieval.

* Some content management systems do allow the textual aspect of content to be separated to some extent from formatting. For example the CMS may automatically set default color, fonts, or layouts.


The Difference Between a Blog and CMS ?

Software that provides a method of managing your website is commonly called a CMS or "Content Management System". Many blogging software programs are considered a specific type of CMS. They provide the features required to create and maintain a blog, and can make publishing on the Internet as simple as writing an article, giving it a title, and organizing it under (one or more) categories.