Q: What is it?

A content management system is a website that can be updated by an administrator as often as required. Information can be continuously added, taken away, or updated to ensure that your content is always fresh, and your promotions are always listed online.

Typically, a content management system (CMS) consists of two elements: the content management application (CMA) and the content delivery application (CDA). The CMA element allows the website owner, who may not know HTML, to manage the creation, modification, and removal of content from a Web site without needing the expertise of a Webmaster. The CDA element uses and compiles that information to update the Web site.

Q: What are the advantages of a CMS?

Separation of design, structure and content. This allows each area of the site to be recreated and or adjusted independent of the other areas. The separation of these three areas creates the flexible strength of a content management system.

• A CMS can be edited from any browser using any computer at any time
• Designed with non-technical people in mind. (People with average knowledge of word processing can create the content directly. No HTML knowledge needed).
• Content manager organizes your content into manageable easy to use categories.
• Search engine friendly design, the more quality content you have in your site, the easier it is for search engines to find you.
• Only permitted authors have access, which prevents anyone from editing content which they are not authorized to change, this adds additional security.
• Navigation is automatically generated and adjusted
• All site changes and updates are published right away, once approved by the administrator.
• All content is stored in a database so it can be easily accessed and reused anywhere in the website.
• Multi-lingual capabilities