A Content Management System (CMS) basically as the name suggests, is a technique used to administer and organize all the content of a website. Usually a CMS comprises of two essential parts: (a) the content management application (CMA) and (b) the Content Delivery Application (CDA). The CMA is responsible for a the owner of the website, an author or a content manager to edit, modify, remove and create content from the content in the website without even having the knowledge of HyperTextMarkupLanguage (HTML) or needing the skills of a webmaster. Now, the CDA part utilizes that information and assembles that information to update the site.

CMS systems differs in terms of features, but most of do have web based publishing, revision control, management of format and a system of indexing , retrieval and search as common features.

A template or a set of templates are used by entities as allowed by the organization, and also by wizards and other apparatus to edit and create web content. The feature of format management permits documents such as scanned paper documents and legacy electronic documents to be designed into HTML or Portable Document Format (PDF) for the website. The feature of revision control, as the name suggests permits the content to be updated to the latest version or bring back to a preceding version. Additionally, revision control can also track any modification made to the files by any person. Apart from this, the CMS   indexes all the data within the organization, which a user can search by using keywords, and the CMS retrieves it.

A CMS system is also capable of offering tools for the possibility of one to one marketing. One to one marketing can be done by using information about the user’s web behavior from the site (such as user’s page pattern of page sequence) and then customizing and tailoring its content in accordance with the user’s specific individuality.

There are two main factors to be considered before you should invest in a CMS:

• The size and geographical distribution of the organization is very important as in this case, the conversion to a CMS system would trickier.
• The multiplicity of electronic data within an organization is also an important factor to be considered. If data such as text documents, videos, graphics, audio and diagrams are used, then applying CMS may become slightly more difficult.

A CMS is likely to sustain the following features:

• Identify all the important users and how they manage the content
• The capability to allocate functions and responsibilities to dissimilar types of content categories
• The workflow tasks are defines so that there is mutual creation, added with messaging of new events so that any changes in content are immediate brought t the notice o f the content managers
• Multiple rendering of the single instant of the unchanged content can be effectively tracked
• Content can be captured for example by scanning
• The content can be brought out into a repository so that it can be accessed easily
• The content’s semantic layer from its layout can be separated. For example, the color, fonts and text of the site can be programmed to automatically rest through the CMS.

CMS comprises of four categories based on the domain functions:

• Enterprise CMS
• Web CMS
• Mobile CMS
• Component CMS

The key features of web based Content Management Systems are:

• Web template which is automated and customized
• Content which can be easily editable via WISIWUG ( what you see is what you get)
• Integration of numerous plug ins and modules which make the CMS much more improved
• Appropriate management of documents and their handling
• Adding, updating and deleting of the WebPages with ease
• Total power over the designing and styling of the website

There are several Content Management Systems, each important in its own way in terms of function and importance. We at Web Development Services, offer totally customized important CMS systems such as:

Joomla,  Drupal   and Custom CMS.