2. CMS
Elaboration: Content Management System
CMS is a document centric collaborative
application for managing documents and
other contents.
CMS is often used as method of managing web
sites and web contents.
3. Application of CMS
CMS can manage documents and other contents of
an application.
CMS is used to manage contents and documents of
1. Desktop Database Applications
2. Web sites and web contents
Today, our emphasis is on web CMS.
4. Web Sites and Web Contents
Now a days most of the popular web sites uses
different CMSs to manage their site and its
contents.
Example:
facebook, wikipedia, blogging web sites, etc.
5. Contents of facebook
Profiles
Updates
Photos
Videos
Facebook Applications
Connections
Notifications
Messages
Etc.
6. Examples of Free CMS
and Their Basic Uses
• Wordpress: Blogging
• Joomla: Complete News Websites
• Drupal: Blogging
• Magento: E-commers, etc.
7. Let’s see Wordpress
1. Users and privilege management
2. Articles, Time, Date and Author
3. Extra web pages
4. Plugins, themes and extra features, etc.
8. How Wordpress is Built?
• Database- MySql
• Scripting Language- PHP, Javascript
• Flash or other decorations that are used in
html static websites can also be used in
wordpress to decorate it.
9. Installing Wordpress
1. Needs a web server to be installed
2. Need a MySql server to be installed
3. Needs a database in the server
4. User name and password of the database