Chapter 9. FAQ Content Management System

If you attend any reasonably large IT conference, one of the buzzwords you are likely to hear tossed around the shop floor is content management. The buzzword and its vehicle of choice, the Content Management System (CMS), refer to Web applications that provide a simple and effective means of managing content.

Building a CMS is not a walk in the park. The major challenge that you face is in presenting all of the necessary tools needed to manage the content in a way that is simple but comprehensive. Many CMSs also deal with different types of users (admins, normal users, moderators, and so on), so you also need to provide a secure and consistent permissions system.

In this chapter, you carefully step over ...

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