Introduction
In a basic term, Content Management System is a tool used to organized content of a website. These days, maintaining a huge amount of published content without any proper content management system (CMS) could be an actual nightmare. CMS allows the editor to interact with the website in many different ways. It offers graphical user interface, which permits the editor to generate content, add pictures and multimedia files, make schedules for content and much more. By this way one can easily organize and plan up the data by giving a structured view of the resources. In case you own a website/blog where you publish lot of content from various authors, you must really go with Content Management System (CMS). Any high-quality CMS tool could assist you simplify your content publishing processes. In other words, it can let your to organized your content effectively and cost-effectively too.
There are two main factors you must consider if you decided going for CMS. First, your organization’s size and second geographic dispersion if your company is has branches over several countries. For any such organization, the working of CMS goes trickier. Then, the diversity of electronic data shapes used within the company must be measured. In case, you use text files, images, video, diagrams, and audio to pass on information, the content would be more difficult to manage.
Widely used Open Source CMS
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NAME |
PLATFORM |
SUPPORTED DATABASES |
Drupal |
PHP |
MySQL or PostgreSQL |
Joomla |
PHP |
MySQL |
Mambo |
PHP |
MySQL |
Wordpress |
PHP |
MySQL |
Our experience with Drupal
We had used Drupal for creating our Search engine expert directory for the site www.searchenginegenie.com
Initially we started with the basic configuration which comprises of admin account, file system, site info, theme settings, and user management.
Site Configuration
Theme Setting & Configuration
In this section, we have enabled theme and configured it by selecting Logo, site name, user pictures in post etc
On the other hand, basic content management site it has include “page” and “story”.
Being an SEO expert we tried doing something different with Drupal, and we were successful in adding profile modules, images content module, nodewords module and page title modules for each page apart from the basic configuration.
Profile Module
In this part, we have created profile related page elements like Name, URL, Profile, Hobbies, and Awards etc
Nodewords Module
In this section, we have created Meta tags for individual pages
Page Title Module
In this section, we have created Title tag for individual pages.
In addition we have created our own categories: Search engine Experts, SEO Experts. Search engine expert directory is been created in way of blocks and implemented in the side menu.
Finally, Search Engine Expert Directory has been created with many profiles.
Our experience with Wordpress
We had used Wordpress for creating for the site www.cyclonerita.com
Initially we started with the Settings which comprise of general settings, writing and reading settings, permalinks, privacy and miscellaneous settings.
In the Permalink settings, we have created the custom structure URL for permalinks and archives.
In the Design Section, We have changed the theme settings and configuration accordingly.
We have changed the Header and footer part of the template using Theme Editor
We have created many categories using Manage categories (add new)
At last, we have developed the site www.cyclonerita.com with many pages.
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