What is CMS? No one until now know what is Really CMS Some vendors provides application for web site management or page management and they think they are providing CMS When you see a system that only give you the ability to create pages depending on Template and, manage the created pages, you are working with design or HTML editing tool If you see, in addition to that, a Workflow and authorization that can be assigned to these pages, you are working with web or pages management tool
But if you see a system that work with content elements and give you the ability to use or re-use these content elements to create different type of content blocks that can be used to create different format of unlimited number of pages with workflow and authorization assigned to them, you are working with CMS And also, if you see a system that in addition to all above enables you to create personalization and content delivery, you are working with extended-CMS or portal solution This is CMS CMS must help you define you content elements as you need CMS must help you sharing and publishing information in different format CMS must help you create as many pages as you want form specific content element CMS help users create and edit content NOT pages CMS Create Pages from content NOT content from Pages CMS Manage the pages that are created by CMS itself NOT by user CMS provide Workflow and authorization in the content element itself NOT in Pages Thanks Emad Sarhan Tech Manager - Arab IT ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alvin Tan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 3:24 PM Subject: [cms-list] new to list/cm > Hi List Members, > > My name is Alvin Tan from the Philippines and im new > to this list. I(along with 3 groupmates) am proposing > a thesis topic this coming Monday regarding CM. For a > week, we have been reading through articles online but > we always get confused on what really is CM because > each article or vendor case study we read are defining > or scoping CM differently. Some CM defines as purely > web site management and some are not. I hope some list > members can help us out on this. We also need to > propose an application using CM concept to solve a > particular IT/IS problem. Real world examples or CM > experiences will really help us understand it. Another > uncertainty we are dealing/anwering is that , should > there be a EDMS (Document Management) in place for CM > to work? Well, i'll stop here for now. Any > suggestions? Replies will really be appreciated. Thank > yuo and im glad i found this list! > > Regards, > Alvin Tan > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. > http://mailplus.yahoo.com > -- > http://cms-list.org/ > more signal, less noise. -- http://cms-list.org/ more signal, less noise.