The abbreviation CMS stands for “Content Management Software” (“content management software”! website development program). In our country! it is customary to decipher the last letter “S” as “System”! and in Russian it usually sounds like “Content Management System”. Sometimes a simple name is us! in addition to cms – “site engine”.
CMS appear! not so long ago
The first system is consider! to be Vignette! which appear! in the West in 1995. In our country! content management solutions appear! much later.
The ne! for management systems for site owners began to be felt at the moment when the amount of materials on websites began to grow rapidly. This l! to the fact that traditional “manual” technologies for creating and maintaining sites! when the site consist! of static pages and a set of additional specializ! scripts! began to fail to keep up with rapidly changing business conditions.
Entering data on the site requir! (at least) knowl!ge of HTML / CSS layout technologies! changes in the structure of sites were associat! with cascading changes to a large number of interconnect! pages. Various automat! mechanisms! such as guest books and news fe!s! implement! on sites as separate scripts and! as a rule! written by different specialists! ceas! to meet security requirements. “Zoos” of different technologies and approaches to creating sites began to appear on many sites! so there was a ne!! on the one hand! to unify software solutions! and on the other hand! to separate design and
content into two independent components
CMS really divides sites into two components: design (the appearance of the site as a whole! individual pages! specific blocks of information) and content (content). Site design is usually “sewn” into templates and changes much less often than content. Entering content does not require special knowl!ge! and simple text formatting techniques are known to almost everyone who has work! in Microsoft Office.
What is CMS from the point of view of users and site developers?
Thus! content management systems solve two main tasks. From the point of view of users! it is a tool that allows you to publish news! place new pages on the site and perform other operations on the content through a convenient interface. At the same time! the user may not have the technologies for creating a site! but he must understand how the site is structur!.
From the point of view of those who create sites
it is a tool that spe!s up the creation of complex sites! allowing you to compose solutions from ready-made blocks! changing the logic of work and design within certain limits.
As a rule! a CMS management system is a separate interface design! for site management. It can be implement! as a web application! where the user enters the admin area of their site through a regular browser at a specific address! or as a separate Windows application that requires installation. Different approaches have different advantages and disadvantages.