C
ontent is being generated at a furious pace, so it is only natural that finding the best way to organize this information will become a struggle. Content management is an issue that plagues almost all organizations at some point, placing them in a position of developing a sound strategy.A CMS (Content Management System) can be perceived as a hybrid technology of website maintenance and a document management system in that the delivery, addition, modification or deletion of new or updated content can be achieved simultaneously from different points. The web is being ruled by the introduction of new content every few seconds, so rather than being fraught with an arduous structure, we need to ensure that content is flexible and systematic.
Some of the fundamental of a standard CMS are:
- Completely database driven site engines
- News, products, or services sections fully editable and manageable
- Topics sections can be added to by contributing authors
- Fully customizable layouts, including left, center, and right Menu boxes
- Browser upload of images to your own library for use anywhere in the site
- Dynamic Forum/Poll/Voting booth for on-the-spot results
- Import of multi-formatted documents: text, graphics, videos, music.
- Allocate different privilege or roles to different users of the website – admin, author, contributor, etc
- Presence of an alert or notification system where managers or admin are informed of any changes to the existing content
- Version control is also one of the basic features of a standard CMS. It gives the site administrator complete control over the management of document versions
- A standard CMS is supported by a centralized archive where all the published documents are stored. This facilitates a rapid search facility for documents within the site
- At present, most of the CMS are equipped with a robust editing system which gives the content creator a complete control over the formatting of the documents
Extensive Administration
- Change order of objects including news, FAQs, Articles etc.
- Random Newsflash generator
- Remote Author Submission Module for News, Articles, FAQs, and Links
- Object hierarchy - as many sections, departments, divisions, and pages as you wish
- Image library - store all your PNGs, PDFs, DOCs, XLSs, GIFs, and JPEGs online for easy use
- Automatic Path-Finder. Place a picture and let Joomla! fix the link
- News Feed Manager. Choose from over 360 News Feeds from around the world
- E-mail a friend and Print format available for every story and article
- In-line text editor similar to any basic word processor software
- User editable look and feel
- Polls/Surveys - Now put a different one on each page
- Custom Page Modules. Download custom page Modules to spice up your site
- Template Manager. Download Templates and implement them in seconds Layout preview. See how it looks before going live
- Banner Manager. Make money out of your site
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