Content Management Systems

ALSO CALLED: CMS
DEFINITION: A content management system (CMS) is a system used to manage the content of a Web site. Typically, a CMS consists of two elements: the content management application (CMA) and the content delivery application (CDA). The CMA element allows the content manager or author, who may not know Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), tomanage the creation, modification, and removal of content from a Web sitewithout  … 
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CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS DEFINITION (continued): …  needing the expertise of a Webmaster. The CDA element uses and compiles that information to update the Web site. The features of a CMS system vary, but most include Web-based publishing, formatmanagement, revision control, and indexing, search, and retrieval.The Web-based publishingfeature allows individuals to use a template or a set of templates approved by the organization, as well as wizards and other tools to create or modify Web content. The format managementfeature allows documents including legacy electronic documents and scanned paperdocuments to be formatted into HTML or Portable Document … 
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