Category: Content Management System (CMS)

Inherited Styles

This refers to when one section of a site or a page uses the same CSS styling as another already defined section. This reduces the time it takes to style pages and makes for a more cohesive site.   Takeaway Understanding how images and photography are handled with a CMS saves time and can make …

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Interwoven

Interwoven was purchased by HP and is now TeamSite.

Joomla

Joomla! is an open source content management system offering many extensions to add features to the site. Features: Joomla! offers marketing and e-commerce tools, along with extensibility and a large support community. Pros: Has a great community, strong framework and extensibility. Cons: The built-in, core functionality sometimes can be flawed, or limiting. More about Joomla! …

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JS Framework

A JavaScript framework is an application for developing user interfaces and applications. It helps single page applications and websites perform faster and more efficiently. Examples include React.js, Vue.js, and AngularJS. These frameworks are becoming more popular due to the increased performance they provide and the ability to work with CMSs such as Drupal and WordPress.

Kentico

What it is: Kentico is an easy to use content management system with great functionality but also allows for comprehensive customization. Type: Pay per domain Cost: Base license costs range from $3,500 to $15,000. There are no further implementation costs. Features: Kentico offers a comprehensive content management system, marketing and e-commerce tools, and analytics. Pros: …

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Module / Add-ons

Modules are add-ons to core CMS functionality; They offer additional specialized features to supplement the basics. As of February 2014 there are over 30,000 community-contributed modules to Drupal as well as a similar amount of plugins for WordPress.

Multi-Site

A feature that allows a single, shared Drupal installation for multiple websites. The multi-site can share core code, contributed modules, and themes so that updates and upgrades need to be completed only once for several sites. Databases and configuration settings remain unique to each website.

Open Source

Typically used to describe software, open source refers to something that is made available to the public so that users may modify and/or share as they wish. Examples of open source software are content management systems such as WordPress and Drupal.

OpenText

Vignette/OpenText is an enterprise level CMS. Type: Fee-based licensed software Features: Personalized content marketing due to the ability to quickly locate meaningful and relevant user content. Pros: With OpenText one can maximize the value of enterprise information for improved decision making and productivity. Cons: Being an enterprise CMS, the price may be too high for …

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Roles

This is a term that refers to a type of website user. Each user will be given a role and permissions such as a web page editor or site administrator.