IT2032PA Content Management

System (CMS)Nitec in Social Media & Web Technology

Proprietary & Open Source CMS

In this chapter, you will learn:o Identify a few notable proprietary list of CMSo Identify a few notable open source list of CMSo Identify the appropriate CMS in accordance to

user specifications

Proprietary CMS

Benefits:o Support

• you will have access to a team who knows the CMS code inside and out

o Setup • Hire a 3rd party company offering the CMS setup

Proprietary CMS

Drawbacks:o Licensing Fees

• pay a licensing fee or at least setup fee

o Tied to proprietary developer • rely on the company to create upgrades and new features

o Developer feeds • support is readily available but with a price

Popular Proprietary CMS

Adobe® CQ o foundation of the Adobe Web Experience

Management (WEM) solutiono provides digital marketers with easy-to-use web-

based applications o provides integration with of Adobe Digital

Marketing Suite

Popular Proprietary CMS

Microsoft SharePoint o typically associated with web and doc mgt systemso much broader platform of web technologies, o capable of being configured to suit a wide range of

solution areaso designed as a central application platform for

common enterprise web requirements

Popular Proprietary CMSIBM Enterprise Content Management

o It strength lies on:

• Advanced case management,

• Document imaging and capture,

• Social content management,

• Content Analytics, • Information lifecycle

governance, • Archiving Classification,

• Defensible disposal, • Document management, • eDiscovery, • Enterprise report

management, • Enterprise search, • Records and retention

management

Open Source CMS

The most popular Open Source CMS run on PHP (a scripting language well-suit for web development that can be imbedded into HTML)

Open source (OS) programs can be used by anyone for any purpose and do not require you to purchase a license

Open Source CMS

BenefitsoCheaper; oNo license fees, oNo fees for upgrades, oNo contracts to sign oNo long-term commitments.

Open Source CMS

Benefitso Best benefit: They practically work "right out of the

box."o Countless free modules, plugins, and

complimentary toolso Countless free themes (skins)o simple to optimize for search engines

Popular Open Source CMS

DrupalA free and open-source content management system (CMS) and content management framework (CMF)o used as a back-end system for at least 1.5% of all

websites worldwideo used for knowledge management and business

collaborationo Org that uses Drupal

• AT&T, McDonald's, Duke and Standford Universities, Symantic, Fiju, Linux Foundation

Popular Open Source CMS

Joomla!A free and open source content management framework (CMF) for publishing content on the WWW and intranetso Written in PHPo uses object-oriented programming (OOP)

techniques o stores data in a MySQL o Org that uses Drupal

• AT&T, McDonald's, Duke and Standford Universities, Symantic, Fiju, Linux Foundation

Popular Open Source CMS

Joomla!A free and open source content management framework (CMF) for publishing content on the WWW and intranetso Written in PHPo uses object-oriented programming (OOP)

techniques o stores data in a MySQLo Org that uses Joomla!

• Olympus, Porsche, Sprint and Vodafone

Popular Open Source CMS

Joomla!o Includes features such as:o page caching, o RSS feeds, o printable versions of pages, o news flashes, o blogs, o polls, o search, o support for language internationalization

Popular Open Source CMS

WordPressA free and open source blogging tool and a dynamic CMS based on PHP and MySQL. o features such as plug-in architecture and a

template systemo most popular CMS in use for personal websites,

blogs, small businesseso Companies that use WordPress :

• About.com, Ford, People Magazine, Sony, CNN, eBay, Wired, and even Yahoo!

Popular Open Source CMS

TYPO3is suitable for enterprise websites and for intranets. o can be extended through extra ready-made

modules o design of is template-based o webmaster can create templates using TypoScript.

CMS Consideration

1. Core functionalityo Test the system for usability

2. The HTML Editoro is the interface through which content is added

and amended. o does not give content providers control over the

appearanceo editor should be able to handle external assets

• images and downloadable files

CMS Consideration

3. Managing assetso Look for CMS that provides basic image editing

tools (cropping, resizing and rotating)o Consider on how it deals with attachment and

downloading of files

4. Searcho Freshness | Thoroughness | Speed | Scope,

Ranking | Customization

CMS Consideration

5. Customizationo content’s presentation should not be dictated by

technologyo Flexibility makes a CMS stand out

6. User interactiono functionality such as chat, forums, comments and

ratings

CMS Consideration

7. Roles and permissionso content’s presentation should not be dictated by

technologyo Flexibility makes a CMS stand out

8. Versioningo Being able to revert to a previous version of a

page page allows you to quickly recover is something went wrong.

CMS Consideration

9. Multiple website supporto having the flexibility to run multiple websites is

important

10.Multilingual supporto ability to add multiple languages