I’ve spent much of this month setting up Content Management Systems (CMS, for short) for clients. What’s a Content Management System, you ask? It is underlying software for a web site which makes it possible for less technical or essentially non-technical people to post, edit and organize the content (words, pictures, videos) of their web site. A useful and properly configured CMS enables content creators (writers, editors, photographers, videographers) to publish their material online, without needing a webmaster or designer to code and layout every page.
In other words, a good CMS makes it easy for ordinary people to update their own web site. Little to no geekery required.
Using the extra dead simple CMS on which this site runs, I’m going to post brief and general descriptions of several relatively low cost Content Management Systems, comparing and contrasting different approaches. Uh, just as soon as I write them. (No one has yet devised a Content Generation System more effective than the human mind — and a cup of coffee. And I’m outta coffee.)
