What is a Web Content Management System?

A Web Content Management System is a web based application that facilitates collaborative creation and management of web materials (HTML Content and associated resources). The system introduces rules, processes, work flow to allow technical users and non-technical users alike to pull together to jointly deploy a website. It also provides a reusable data structure for ease of maintenance and updates to websites. Finally it contains a framework for the smooth and efficient delivery of the website.

Features of a Web Content Management system?

The following is a list of typical features of a Web Content Management System:

Separation of Content from the presentation components to allow non technical and technical team members to work independently at their strengths towards a collaborative goal.

WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) tools to allow non-technical users to edit and update content comfortably with little or no training.

Workflow Administration tools. Workflow is the creation of rules and tasks to model business processes.

Users / Roles Management Tools. The ability to assign users roles and responsibilities in the management of the content, and to control privileges to Content based on roles.

Publishing tools to distribute the content to a repository to support access to the content from the web to various groups.

Authoring tools that allow users to define object relationships to

Benefits of a Web Content Management system?

Regularly Updated and Consistent Content through easy content updates. This also reduces legal issues and customer dissatisfaction from having incorrect information displayed.

Reusable Content and Templates that can be used across multiple pages and websites to improve productivity and efficiency.

Decentralization of the creation of various types content and presentation components to allow content contributors to take responsibility for the information they provide and to allow quick changes to the content by removing the bottle necks of IT.

Facilitation of Work Flow, approval process and rules enables contribution of independent components within one centralized process to work towards a common goal. It also provides an audit trail to production that enforces accountability and controls the flow of content around internal processes.

Reduce operating costs and improve productivity