Website Content Management System (web CMS) is a bundled or stand-alone application to create, manage, store, organize, and deploy content on Web pages. Web content includes text and embedded graphics, photos, video, audio, and code (e.g., for applications) that displays content or interacts with the user.
CMS Features & Capabilities
The core purpose of CMS software is to simplify content processes for non-technical people. Users can focus on creating, organizing, and delivering content instead of wrestling with code.
The most common features and capabilities of a good content management system include:
- WYSIWYG (what-you-see-is-what-you-get) editor
- Page templates
- Library of website themes
- Content versioning and archiving
- Mobile optimization & responsive design
- Publishing workflow
- Form generation
- Content scheduling
- Asset management (images, articles, etc.)
- Page caching (or other features to speed delivery of content to the site)
- SEO support
- Tools to tag content and create a taxonomy
- Browser compatibility
- Bulk management
- E-commerce functionality (i.e., catalog, shopping cart, payment processing)
- Community management (i.e., commenting, profiles)
- Localization / regionalization with multi-lingual content
- Other personalization options
- User roles and permissions
- API
- Analytics tools
- Import/export content
Type of CMS
ExpressionEngine is a powerful, flexible website content management system that runs off PHP and mySQL and is built on top of CodeIgniter's framework, we have 100% code access to build functionality at three levels — PHP, CodeIgniter or inside ExpressionEngine itself
WordPress is a free and open-source WCMS based on PHP and MySQL. Businesses can use WordPress in the cloud or deploy it on a local computer to act as its own web server. This software is highly customizable, with many themes and WordPress plugins available. It is also a popular blogging platform.
Drupal is a free and open source content-management framework written in PHP and distributed under the GNU General Public License, providing a back-end framework for among the largest sites on the internet, ranging from personal blogs to corporate, political, and government sites. https://www.beargroup.com/ideas/drupal/what-is-drupal
Joomla is a free and open-source web content management system built on an MVC framework. Joomla is written in PHP script language and offers features such as caching, RSS feeds, blog posts, search and support for language translation.
DataLife Engine is a Russian content management system based on PHP, by the SoftNews Media Group. DLE is suitable for creating high-traffic sites of news format. Broad SEO capabilities, as well as optimization of the system allows you to achieve the best results in the promotion.
