At GEEWhizz Computers we supply a highly configurable web based Content Management System, as shown by this example site. A CMS site is designed to give you, our customer, a form of software that can be used to manage content you wish to make available to customers/clients and staff, via the internet.

What's in it

Content in a CMS could include electronic files, image media, audio files, electronic documents and web content. The idea behind a CMS is to make these files available inter-office, as well as over the web. A CMS can also be used as an archival system. Many companies use a CMS to store files in a non-proprietary form. Companies using a CMS file share with ease, as most systems use server based software, even further broadening file availability. Now a days many Content Management Systems include a feature for Web Content, and some have a feature for a "workflow process." which is the idea of moving an electronic document along for either approval, or for adding content. Some Content Management Systems will easily facilitate this process with email notification, and automated routing. This is ideally a collaborative creation of documents. A CMS facilitates the organization, control, and publication of a large body of documents and other content, such as images and multimedia resources.

A web content management system is a content management system with additional features to ease the tasks required to publish web content to web sites. These systems are often used for storing, controlling, versioning, and publishing industry-specific documentation such as news articles, operators' manuals, technical manuals, sales guides, and marketing brochures.

Your CMS could contain the following features

Import and creation of documents and multimedia material

Identification of all key users and their content management roles

The ability to assign roles and responsibilities to different content categories or types

Definition of the content workflow tasks, often coupled with event messaging so that content managers are alerted to changes in content

The ability to track and manage multiple versions of a single instance of content

The ability to publish the content to a repository to support access to the content. Increasingly, the repository is an inherent part of the system, and incorporates enterprise search and retrieval

Some content management systems allow the textual aspect of content to be separated to some extent from formatting. For example the CMS may automatically set default colour, fonts, or layout