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Content Management System

What's a content management system (CMS)?

A content management system is software that keeps track of every piece of content on your Web site, much like your local public library keeps track of books and stores them. Content can be simple text, photos, music, video, documents, or just about anything you can think of. A major advantage of using a CMS is that it requires almost no technical skill or knowledge to manage. Since the CMS manages all your content, you don't have to.

It is easy to understand why many organizations dream of being able to easily and quickly update the content on their Web site. Not only can this be more cost effective, but it also means updates can happen on their schedule. Of course, such an arrangement would only be cost effective if it didn't require an operator with years of experience in various scripting and programming languages to use the application.

All of our clients that need control over the content of their site find our Site Management System (SMS) powerful and simple to use. We have a base of pre-configured code that works with your Web browser to give you complete control over your site. If you need any customized solutions, our experienced development team will be at your disposal to build the solution you need.

Features:

Pages or files can be added, edited, or deleted from within a Web browser
Navigation updates automatically when new pages are added, modified or deleted
Access to designated areas of the site can be limited based on log in
Access levels can be designated to user groups or individuals
Group permissions are inherited by all users assigned to the group making large scale user management simple
Templates are customized to meet your branding strategies
A single Web site can have multiple templates allowing different areas to have unique visual presentations

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	Drupal is an open source content management platform. Equipped with a powerful blend of features, Drupal supports a variety of websites ranging from personal weblogs to large community-driven websites. Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. Tens of thousands of people and organizations are using Drupal to power scores of different web sites, including Community web portals Discussion sites Corporate web sites Intranet applications Personal web sites or blogs Aficionado sites E-commerce applications Resource directories Social Networking sites Drupal is ready to go from the moment you download it. It even has an easy-to-use web installer! The built-in functionality, combined with dozens of freely available add-on modules, will enable features such as: Content Management Systems Blogs Collaborative authoring environments Forums Peer-to-peer networking Newsletters Podcasting Picture galleries File uploads and downloads and much more. Drupal is open-source software distributed under the GPL ("GNU General Public License") and is maintained and developed by a community of thousands of users and developers.
	WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time. More simply, WordPress is what you use when you want to work with your blogging software, not fight it. Key Features Full standards compliance — We have gone to great lengths to make sure every bit of WordPress generated code is in full compliance with the standards of the W3C. This is important not only for interoperability with today's browser but also for forward compatibility with the tools of the next generation. Your web site is a beautiful thing, and you should demand nothing less. No rebuilding — Changes you make to your templates or entries are reflected immediately on your site, with no need for regenerating static pages. WordPress Pages — Pages allow you to manage non-blog content easily, so for example you could have a static "About" page that you manage through WordPress. For an idea of how powerful this is, the entire WordPress.org site could be run off WordPress alone. (We don't for technical mirroring reasons.) WordPress Links -- Links allows you to create, maintain, and update any number of blogrolls through your administration interface. This is much faster than calling an external blogroll manager. WordPress Themes — WordPress comes with a full theme system which makes designing everything from the simplest blog to the most complicated webzine a piece of cake, and you can even have multiple themes with totally different looks that you switch with a single click. Have a new design every day. Cross-blog communication tools— WordPress fully supports both the Trackback and Pingback standards, and we are committed to supporting future standards as they develop. Comments — Visitors to your site can leave comments on individual entries, and through Trackback or Pingback can comment on their own site. You can enable or disable comments on a per-post basis. Spam protection — Out of the box WordPress comes with very robust tools such as an integrated blacklist and open proxy checker to manage and eliminate comment spam on your blog, and there is also a rich array of plugins that can take this functionality a step further. Full user registration — WordPress has a built-in user registration system that (if you choose) can allow people to register and maintain profiles and leave authenticated comments on your blog. You can optionally close comments for non-registered users. There are also plugins that hide posts from lower level users. Password Protected Posts — You can give passwords to individual posts to hide them from the public. You can also have private posts which are viewable only by their author. Easy installation and upgrades — Installing WordPress and upgrading from previous versions and other software is a piece of cake. Try it and you'll wonder why all web software isn't this easy. Easy Importing — We currently have importers for Movable Type, Textpattern, Greymatter, Blogger, and b2. Work on importers for Nucleus and pMachine are under way. XML-RPC interface — WordPress currently supports an extended version of the Blogger API, MetaWeblog API, and finally the MovableType API. You can even use clients designed for other platforms like Zempt. Workflow — You can have types of users that can only post drafts, not publish to the front page. Typographical niceties — WordPress uses the Texturize engine to intelligently convert plain ASCII into typographically correct XHTML entities. This includes quotes, apostrophes, ellipses, em and en dashes, multiplication symbols, and ampersands. For information about the proper use of such entities see Peter Sheerin's article The Trouble With Em ’n En. Intelligent text formatting — If you've dealt with systems that convert new lines to line breaks before you know why they have a bad name: if you have any sort of HTML they butcher it by putting tags after every new line indiscriminately, breaking your formatting and validation. Our function for this intelligently avoids places where you already have breaks and block-level HTML tags, so you can leave it on without worrying about it breaking your code. Multiple authors — WordPress' highly advanced user system allows up to 10 levels of users, with different levels having different (and configurable) privileges with regard to publishing, editing, options, and other users. Bookmarklets — Cross-browser bookmarklets make it easy to publish to your blog or add links to your blogroll with a minimum of effort. Ping away — WordPress supports pinging Ping-O-Matic, which means maximum exposure for your blog to search engines. There's much more, but these are the highlights.
	Mambo is a full-featured Open Source Content Management System that can be used for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Feature list: A large and healthy user and developer community. Provides a basic level of content approval for registered users. Online help. Page caching mechanism to improve performance on busy sites. Trash manager Advertising management (banners, etc). Media (images, documents) upload and management. Content display scheduling. Content syndication (RSS). Search engine friendly (SEF) URL's. Internationalisation (interface translation). Content macro language (aka mambots). Advanced and separate system administation system. Advanced package/addon/template deployment system. Simple but powerful template system (written mostly in HTML, no complex templating syntax to learn, just a couple of PHP functions to include). Heirarchial user access groups. Basic visitor statistics. Multiple WYSIWYG content editor support Simple polls Content voting/rating system.null Many more free addons are available at mamboforge.net. Some of these addons include: LDAP authentication Extended user profiles Forums Media galleries Document managers Templates Events calendar and many, many more... What is MamboXchange? MamboXchange.com has been established as a free development and distribution environment for the Mambo community to host components, templates, plug-ins, modules and anything related to Mambo.