Content Management System

CMS (Content Management System), are increasingly popular and the most used of these is Wordpress which powers millions of blogs.

Other tools for general purpose sites are also increasingly being used.Examples include Drupal, Joomla, Xoops.

The role of a CMS is to automate the management of the tasks necessary to put articles online:

• Choice of templates.
• Editing the text and insert it into a template.
• Organizing menus and categories.
• Site administrering.
• Automatic creation of RSS feeds and sitemap.
• Tag cloud, calendar of archives and other gadgets.
• Statistics of visits, by default or with an extension.
• And inclusion of extensions for more services ...

Thus, the webmaster can concentrate fully on writing content while having a site looking professional.

This folder is designed to help to choose a tool in a too large list, to allow to understand how is built a CMS, and to provide scripts to automate services on a website.

A CMS popularity list provides a ranking of software based on the traffic of their website.

Building a Content Management System

A set of tutorials and scripts that demonstrate how to design all the parts of a CMS.

• Building a CMS
  Step by step tutorial of CMS building.
• Wysiwyg editor
  Demo of use of the TinyMCE editor.
• Dynamic menu
  How to build a menu from pages when they are added...
• Comments
  Adding comments to your articles.
• Authentication
  Using and managing logins and passwords.
• Using a template
  Any CMS make use of a template for the static part of pages.
• Displaying the list of most recent posts
  By using the RSS feed you can display automatically recents articles on each page of a website.

Content Management Tools

These tools are standalone software dedicated to management of web sites.

• List of CMS
  Alphabetical list of all commonly used content management system with their purpose: portal, blog, wiki, etc.
• Drupal.
• Joomla.
• Wordpress.
• fluxBB.
• Magento for eCommerce.
• Reviews of the main CMS.

See Also

• How to use Live Writer with Drupal.
• Using Wordpress as a CMS.
  Thanks to internal options, plugins and themes, Wordpress can become a portal CMS.
• Tutorial: Building your own Wordpress theme.
• SQLite tutorial.
  SQLite allows to add some database feature without to depend upon the host.
• Forum, wiki, Digg-like, transforming Wordpress.
  

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