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CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
With the always increasing demand for accurate information, a new Descipline of the Content Management System (CMS) has appeared. CMS is about the effective storage, oraganisation and retrival of information across different systems via the use of user friendly software.
Why Content Management? An effective CMS means that up-to-date information is available from one central location so that the latest approved version of a document is always available to everyone who needs it. With the adventages of the Internet, this information sharing is a true reality allowing stakeholders across an enterprise access to timely information.
What a CMS looks like? A CMS means defining the responsibilities of content owners at each stage of the information's workflow. Content workflow can be as simple as compose and publish or may include several levels of editing and authorization. For this reason it is important to get buy-in from all levels of management across a company to really make the CMS work. No longer it is possible to blame the web developer for the late delivery of the company report onto the Internet. The problem is how to stop our results being published too soon, and never again late.
THE THEORY
An Ideal Approach to Content Management A web application system consists of several basic elements. Each of these elements needs to be independently controlled by the appropriate owner, for example, the person responsible for adding text to the system, should not have to worry about how to navigate to the document.
THE REALITY
A Realistic View In reality, it is too complex and potentially risky to allow the website owner the ability to easily change all of the elements in the system and so typically the presentation and navigation style are fixed within page templates. Likewise the business logic and security parts of the system are fixed into the application. This leaves the website owner the ability to easily change the content data and associated meta-data, which can usually be done in short bursts via any web browser.
As easy to use as email Just imagine if you could open a web page on your computer, select a page and edit it, as easily as you can edit an email. Here as NIT we can build content managed solutions for your web site. As you don't need any programming skills to use the system, anyone in your company can become the web master, or why not spread the load and allow individuals to edit their own areas of the site - the built in security system will only allow them to change what they are supposed to.
THE RESULT
You get to control Your site! We believe in putting control back into Your hands with simple management tools. Here is what we will do:
- We will work with You in order to understand which parts of your site need change and how much flexibility You can achieve.
- We will break down the individual components of Your web site and rebuild them using a content management tool.
- We will train Your staff how to use the content management tool and within a short time You will be able to switch off the old site and transfer to the new one.
From day one You will be amazed at how simple it is to edit, add, and delete pages on Your web site.
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