The foundation of the self-publishing revolution
IDEA No 31
CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
A content management system (CMS) allows the centralized creation, editing and publishing of web pages. The introduction of CMS allowed non-technical people, with little or no knowledge of HTML, to update and maintain websites.
In a typical CMS, page content and metadata are stored in a database. This is known as the data layer. A presentation layer, usually consisting of a series of templates, is used to display the data. The logic that manipulates the data and determines how it is displayed is known as the business layer. The presentation and business layer are usually fixed. The CMS allows users to add content in the data layer.
Administration is typically ...
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