A Basic & Complete Web CMS

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.

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 Applications2. Web sites and web contents

Today, our emphasis is on web CMS.

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.

Contents of facebook

ProfilesUpdatesPhotosVideosFacebook ApplicationsConnectionsNotificationsMessagesEtc.

Examples of Free CMSand Their Basic Uses

• Wordpress: Blogging• Joomla: Complete News Websites• Drupal: Blogging• Magento: E-commers, etc.

Let’s see Wordpress

1. Users and privilege management2. Articles, Time, Date and Author3. Extra web pages4. Plugins, themes and extra features, etc.

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.

Installing Wordpress

1. Needs a web server to be installed2. Need a MySql server to be installed3. Needs a database in the server4. User name and password of the database

Let’s Install