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Content Management Systems

A content management system (CMS) is a system used to manage the content of a Web site. They are extremely versatile and can be custom designed with templates or themes created exclusively for your company. Additionally, the components available allow you to have access your site's content and modules through a browser-based administrative panel. A content management system facilitates content creation, content control, editing, and many essential web maintenance functions.

Websites created with a content management system differ from websites created with site builder software such as Adobe Dreamweaver because they allow non-technical users to maintain and update their own sites, publish articles and blogs, host virtual communities with forums, photo galleries, calendars and other dynamic and interactive features with little or no training.

Web content management systems

A Web content management system (WCMS) is CMS software deployed as a web application used to manage and control a large, dynamic collection of web material, for creating and managing HTML content with additional features to help with the tasks required to publish web content to web sites. A Web content management system provides the following key features:

	Automated templates: Create standard output templates (usually HTML and XML) that can be automatically applied to new and existing content, creating one central place to change that look across a group of content on a site.
	Easily editable content: Once your content is separate from the visual presentation of your site, it usually becomes much easier and quicker to edit and manipulate. Most CMS software include WYSIWYG editing tools allowing non-technical individuals to create and edit content.
	Scalable feature sets: Most CMS have plug-ins or modules that can be easily installed to extend an existing site's functionality.
	Web standards upgrades: Active CMS solutions usually receive regular updates that include new feature sets and keep the system up to current web standards.
	Workflow management: Workflow is the process of creating cycles of sequential and parallel tasks that must be accomplished in the CMS. For example, a content creator submits a story but it's not published on the website until the copy editor cleans it up, and the editor-in-chief approves it.
	Document management: CMS solutions may provide a means of managing the life cycle of a document from initial creation time, through revisions, publication, archive, and document destruction.
	Content virtualization: CMS systems may provide a means of allowing each user to work within a virtual copy of the entire website, document set, and/or code base. This enables changes to multiple interdependent resources to be viewed and/or executed in-context prior to submission.

We develop Web content management system's that utilize a MySQL database to store content, metadata, and/or items that might be needed. Content is stored as XML to facilitate reuse and enable flexible presentation options. Presentation is displayed using a set of templates or themes. Administration is handled through a web browser such as Firefox or Internet Explorer without the need for special editing software.

TGM Designs offers complete WCMS development using Joomla!, one of the most powerful open source content management systems available. It is used all over the world for everything from simple websites to complex corporate websites and applications. Learn More...

TGM Designs also offers complete CMS development using Drupal, a software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. Learn More...