What is A Content Management System?

Colleen Kelly — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 15:06:50 +0000

An OS content management system (CMS) allows you to manage website text and images through a database. This typically means:
Quicker website setup
Completely flexible graphic design
Tools to easily update pages and navigation
Support for rule-based content (like events or news)
Community support and plug-ins

Comparing Open Source Content Management Systems:
- Joomla
- Drupal
- Plone
(see attached presentation)

Drupal is a content management system (CMS). It seems to be pretty popular in this crowd. It is implemented in PHP. There are many useful plugins for it. Is the present site based on Drupal?

Joomla is another CMS implemented in PHP.

Plone is a CMS implemented in Python.

For someone's listing of CMS implemented in Ruby on Rails, see Top 20 Ruby CMS. A search on Google for mentions of "Ruby" and "CMS" in the same article produced about 2.8 million hits.

What is CiviCRM?

Morgan Sully — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 17:11:11 +0000

CiviCRM is actually a suite of tools based on the Drupal content management system. A bit tricky to set up (at first), but once configured and running it is VERY powerful. It allows NPOs to coordinate their efforts quite well and collects has good set of tools for this. Some key things it attends to is:

Volunteer coordination
Event coordination
Donor management
eNewsletter management
Constituent relationship management
Google/Yahoo mapping of various events and volunteers

It also includes blogs, forums and image galleries and there’s a good base of users out there. The listservs are very friendly too. Here's a link:

http://www.civicrm.org

There is a fantastic, FREE, and pretty comprehensive online manual for CiviCRM available at FLOSSmanuals: http://en.flossmanuals.net/CiviCRM/

Digital Arts Service Corps - content management system

What is A Content Management System?

What is CiviCRM?