As a Website Editor you have a fully maintained site or internal network (intranet). This system of information distribution is seemingly helpful though it continues to be far from ideal. The content of your pages are tirelessly hard to maintain and update without a full time specialized member of staff specifically in charge, so much of your content becomes dated and wrong. Generally the systems for updating and maintaining are fairly complex so once again hard to track and function.
This information could lead you to having out of date prices or offers still displayed, inaccurate information being displayed or shown and ultimately leaving you unguarded in the event of negative legal matters (this incorrect information possibly leading to customers or clients taking legal action for one reasons or another). This caution and common problem is an everyday issue when using professional, specific manual online tools such as Dreamweaver and FrontPage. These problems are what Content Management Systems are created to smooth over.
A Content Management System cradles and secures the design, maintenance, displaying and distribution of corporate information. It creates the complete end to end journey of the particular website, from providing templates and tools to facilitate the content, onto the display and then to finish the final archiving.
It also provides the user with abilities to manage the content and shape of the site, the appearance of the published content and the journey and navigation maintained for the end user.
Internet Content Management systems are controlling and creative systems, implemented fully as a web application in order to create, manage and maintain HTML content (HTML being the integral language that is written to create today’s web sophisticated web pages). The systems are used to operate and control mass amounts of internet documentation and their related images. They successfully guide the functions of editing, site maintenance, subject control and content implementation.
These systems allow users little understanding of HTML, however the platform still gives them the freedom to write and create web content and product. In short Web Content Management Systems facilitate web editing to another level of user, as explained users with minimal knowledge of programming languages can manage, create and produce web material with little effort or special training.
The majority of these systems use an enhanced database to store content, higher descriptors such as metadata (data about data) or other tools or creditors that may be needed by that particular system. It is common for XML to be used in interchanging data over the Internet and it is normally used to manage and facilitate versatile presentation options.
The page content will be displayed to web surfers based on a pre determined group of templates. These templates can occasionally be processed as XSLT files which facilitate the journey of information onto your pre determined website. The majority of Content Management Systems use server side caching to allow greater storage of information and quick access to that information. These are used generally on sites that are not edited on a regular basis but achieve plenty of internet traffic and hits.
A ‘fat client’ is a computer in client server architecture networks which normally allows mass functionality free of the central server. The administration is usually completed through browser based interfaces the pre mentioned ‘fat client’ is used by some more specialized systems.
Different and aside from web site builders, as previously mentioned website content management systems allow people to make changes and maintain their sites in a completely non technical and user friendly capacity. However generally these systems and processes will still need an experienced Web Editor or HTML coder to set up more dynamic and thorough features and end content.