A web-content-management system (WCM, WCMS or Web CMS) is content management system
(CMS) software, implemented as a Web application, for creating and managing HTML
content.
It is used to manage and control a large, dynamic collection of Web material (HTML
documents and their associated images). A WCMS facilitates content creation, content
control, editing, and essential Web maintenance functions.
The software provides authoring (and other) tools designed to allow users with little
knowledge of programming languages or markup languages to create and manage content
with relative ease. Most systems use a database to store content, metadata, or artifacts
that might be needed by the system.
Content is frequently, but not universally, stored as XML, to facilitate reuse and
enable flexible presentation options.
A presentation layer displays the content to Web-site visitors based on a set of
templates. The templates are sometimes XSLT files.
Most systems use server side caching boosting performance.
This works best when the WCMS is not changed often but visits happen on a regular
basis.
Administration is typically done through browser-based interfaces, but some systems
require the use of a fat client. Unlike Web-site builders, a WCMS allows non-technical
users to make changes to a website with little training.
A WCMS typically requires an experienced coder to set up and add features, but is
primarily a Web-site maintenance tool for non-technical administrators.
What TLU Design can provide
TLU Design can provide a bespoke web content management systems for your business
or organisation.
Our web CMS solutions are developed in ASP.NET or PHP and powered by either SQL Server, MySQL
or XML and XHTML depending on your needs.
Please feel free to contact us to
discuss your CMS requirements