Content Management Systems
The contents of web pages are subject to a high degree of dynamic depending on their business area. Magazines post articles online, companies present their new products and public authorities inform citizens.
When everyday work eventually occurs after the development of a website, its contents must be kept up to date and maintained regularly. To avoid asking the original web service contractor for every change, so called content management systems (CMS) are utilized to perform the task on one’s own account.
The CMS acts as the link between user content and the predetermined site components like design and structure. Without any knowledge of HTML, databases and server configuration, users are able to edit, release, delete, move, hide or date the contents of the website, as if they were using regular office software. Content is “managed” by author and system.
Maintenance and Processing of Content
There are numerous free and commercial CMS solutions and additions, which are aimed at all user groups from a private person to industrial large-scale projects. Usually they all share the assignment of certain roles and rights, to edit and release content collectively.
A CMS combines multiple article types and provides users with according forms to enter their content. Contents are inserted at one point in media neutral form before they are processed for various output formats and terminal devices. This way, in addition to the website representation, contents can be downloaded as PDF or viewed optimized for the iPhone.
The selection of a CMS should be influenced especially by the actual requirements. In the best case, users control a system, which provides them with just the tools they need for their tasks. An export of the contents into further processing software also improves or avoids additional processes during everyday work.
This way a specialized CMS product emerged from a webmotive development, which is aimed specially at the needs of scene, lifestyle and city magazines due to its combination of calendar elements, event locations and multimedia articles.
Content Management Systems at webmotive
webmotive mostly develops own CM systems now, which, thanks to their innovative Interface, can be controlled intuitively by regular users and improve the handling of content enormously. Our CM systems focus on the everyday work of editors and combine the necessary article types for safe and fast processes.
Paired with the high quality representation of webmotive solutions, our systems convince users with professional features like language management, versioning of content, maintenance of image galleries and newsletters, sophisticated media databases, blogs, e-papers and exclusive panoramas or galleries in 3D.
Contents can be linked to categories and topics, can be exported to social media like Facebook or Twitter via interfaces and can be depicted within embedded map applications thanks to geo-referencing.
Prior to the development of own CM systems, webmotive primarily utilized and extended the open source solution TYPO3 for large projects. If you decide against a webmotive solution, we gladly provide you with a market overview of free and commercial systems and realize the website accordingly.
Summary
- CM systems allow for maintenance of web content without any special prior knowledge
- CM systems combine various article types and provide according forms to enter content
- Contents are stored at one point in media neutral form and can be processed at will
