What is CMS.

Welcome to my What is CMS. What is the "engine map", in other words, the CMS?

The term is an acronym for the concept of CMS Content Management Software (or as they say in our parts, Content Management System), which translates as "content management system". Speaking simply, CMS - is a program that helps owners manage site content without requiring them with any special knowledge and skills.

CMS perform two main functions: generating pages for users and help owners manage the contents of the site.

In order to better understand the meaning and purpose of content management systems, you need a little dip in the history of industrial development sites. The fact is that once the website is a few static pages, and in order to change something on the site, had to climb into the code and change it all right there. It was quite difficult to do, without having special knowledge. Site owners often had to involve innocent people - programmers and coders. Thus, the company's security policy is violated, and the process of changing the information takes too much time. Over time, the update rate of the resource began to take on increasing importance, site pages became more and more graphically loaded, on the sites began to appear animation, audio, flash-objects, more attention was paid to the semantic filling site. It was obvious that no tools that would simplify the work with the site, cannot do. The solution to these problems and become content management system.

CMS Principle

Sites that are based on the CMS are not individual pages. The principle of operation of most engines is based on the separation of site design and the satisfaction, content - graphics, text, files in different formats, archives, etc. Site structure rarely changes, but the content can be changed often enough - not only every day but every hour. So, at the time of receipt of the request CMS generates a page for the user, as if folding its parts, based on certain parameters. Information that can be seen by different users on the same page may be quite different, depending on many factors, such as whether the user is authorized, and what information it previously left on the site. Different looks, for example, the page displays the items in the basket put different users of the online store.

At the same time, the CMS website protects data, ensures that it is not clogged spam, and generally carries a huge amount of extra work that does not see a normal user, but which is vital for normal functioning of the site. And to do all this, it should be fast, so that the user is not tired of waiting and left for information on another site.

Of course, the site can operate without any CMS. This is acceptable if it is composed of the 1st page. But if the site will be expanded and the number of pages will be over, for example, 30, that can be difficult. If you need to change any of the information contained in each or many pages of the site (for example, phone number or address any links), you have to enter separately on every page manually in the code to replace the information.

At the same time, the owner of a website based on the CMS, just go to the admin site, and by using beautifully designed and perfectly understandable to anyone fields easily manage news feeds, product catalogs, moderate the forums, upload videos, pictures, visually change the structure of the site adding new fields and pages, and perform many other operations that without CMS would not only time to consume but often even impossible.

Types of Content Management Systems

Control systems can be paid and free and open source and closed.

Pay system, in contrast to the free, provided ongoing technical support for producers, respectively, CMS is constantly being improved and updated. In addition, these versions are more secure than free CMS.

However, open source CMS, despite these shortcomings, have a huge advantage - no need to pay for them.

As for the CMS, open source, there is access to the code allows you to change some features of systems and expand their functionality.

With open source software are both paid and free CMS.

Samih CMS there is a great variety. On our site, you can read about such content management systems like Joomla, Wordpress, OpenCart, 1c Bitrix, Drupal, and others. Our company is a new CMS - liwil.cms. About her and other content management systems, read our following articles.

A little bit about what the CMS, for what it is and whether it is possible to do without it.

CMS - a special program that is installed on the hosting site and which has two main functions.

The primary function of CMS - show the pages of the site users, shaping their content "on the fly" from the pre-defined templates with design and content, ie texts, pictures, tables and other materials that are stored in the database.

It is important to understand that site as a set of pages with such a scheme does not exist. There are separate designs (templates) and a separate set of different materials - text, images, archives of files, documents MSOffice / PDF and other materials. CMS user creates a page at the time of the request. Thus, depending on the situation, the user is some unique information may be displayed, and that no one else will never be visible. For example, the contents of his basket in the online store. This work makes the CMS, or "engine map". Thus, CMS is not just generating the page users. She tries to do it as quickly as possible to handle the maximum number of requests per unit of time, protects data from unscrupulous users, does not clog the database spammers and does in the background a lot of additional work, which is not visible to visitors of the site and even its owner, but vital necessary for the normal operation of a modern website.

Of course, you can create a site without CMS. The simplest sites such as "small sites" are done in a few minutes, for example by using MSWord. To do this, save the file in HTML format and put the file on the hosting server. However, when the page is not 1, but 100 there will be some difficulty. If every page is, for example, phone companies, the need to change it to change it to 100 places, all by hand. Even worse, if the pages will need to change some link - to maintain such a large structure without additional software will be practically impossible.

Furthermore. To add to the site, such as a feedback form, will have to resort to programming and to make a special script that takes data from clients and stores them in a database. This makes the creation of an independent website for the average user is almost an impossible task. But now is not the 99th year. Modern CMS allows doing without the need to write to a certain code and collect from the site ready "cubes".

In order to allow users to enter the site, and the owner could manage it, you must first create the site itself. Conventionally, the site can be divided into two parts - the design templates and content. When you go to the site, you can see some elements that do not change from page to page. This cap site, cellar, navigation elements (different menus, "breadcrumbs", etc.). These units are usually placed in the templates. The rest - text, images, tables and so on, are generally controlled by the owner of the site through CMS. Also, content can be arbitrary and formed according to certain rules. For example, now you are reading a page with arbitrary content, where we, the owners of the site can insert any information by filling it as we want This functionality CMS units that help developers quickly assemble the finished cubes of sites that all sites are arranged about the same, and the site owner did not bother to design news feeds, and other units, leaving the work of CMS and only entering the required information into the database.

The process layout design templates and selection of functional units on a site called "assembly site". Typically, the site is going to programmers or webmasters, because for this work, as a rule, require specific technical knowledge. But often, you can buy or borrow free ready-assembled pre-harvesting sites that already have most of the work is done in advance. The owner of the site is only to replace the logo, enter your content, and the site is ready. For example, in our "Downloads" section, you can find two ready-to-work demonstration sites - a site of some abstract company and online store website. If the sample size is not entirely suitable for any task and requires modification or expansion of functionality, it is always possible to do anything yourself about our documentation or to order additional work in our company or our partners.

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