What are CMS's all about?

A web content management system is content management system (CMS) software implemented as a web application used for creating and managing HTML content. CMS allows non-technical users to make changes to an existing website with little or no training. DigitalDose can implement a CMS system for your company and site content. The open source CMS systems we use also allow for web shop modules to be installed within the setup.

Highlights of a typical CMS setup:

• Automated templates
  Standard visual templates that can be automatically applied to new and existing content, creating one central place to change that look across a group of content on a site with ease.
• Easily editable content
  Once your content is separate from the visual presentation of your site, it usually becomes much easier and quicker to edit and manipulate. Most CMS software includes WYSIWYG editing tools allowing non-technical individuals to create, edit and visually design content.
• Scalable feature sets
  Most CMS have plug-ins or modules that can be easily installed to extend an existing site's functionality.
• Web standards upgrades
  Active CMS solutions usually receive regular updates that include new feature sets and keep the system up to current web standards.
• Workflow management
  Workflow is the process of creating cycles of sequential and parallel tasks that must be accomplished in the CMS. For example, a content creator submits a story but it's not published on the website until the copy editor cleans it up, and the editor-in-chief approves it.
• Document management
  CMS solutions may provide a means of managing the life cycle of a document from initial creation time, through revisions, publication, archive, and document destruction.