How does a CMS work?

Part 1: Content Creation

• Easy to use authoring environment
• Non-technical
• Knowledge of HTML not required, although may be available
• Manage structure
• Should be simple!
• Lower cost and increase efficiencies!!!

Part 2: Content Management

• Central repository of data: Database, XML, HTML
• Security
• Versioning
• Further information leveraging and integration
• Workflow
• Dynamic vs. Static Systems
• Static - web site generated at time of publishing
• Dynamic - web site (page) published on the fly, based upon user requests and specifications

Part 3: Publishing

• Empowers writers and editors to create and maintain content themselves
• Once centralized, information can be output to multiple platforms.
• Reduction in duplication of service

Part 4: Presentation

• The degree to which each of the following are met is largely determined by an individual project.
• Browser/Operating System independence
• Web Standards assurance - adherence to W3C specifications
• Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
• Control over metadata (meta tags - keywords and descriptions)

Firecurl Design CMS features:

• Beautiful, user friendly interface
• Integrated, customisable WYSIWYG editor
• Support for editing directly in Microsoft Word
• Unlimited content versioning with full rollback
• Scheduled publishing
• Advanced permission model
• Cross platform interface that works on Windows, Mac and Linux
• No limits to design
• Super simple template engine
• Full support for web standards
• Full support for accessibility standards
• Full support for semantic web
• Full support for Ajax frameworks
• Integrated CSS support
• Integrated web editors for templates, javascript files and css
• Full .NET Support
• Full documented API
• Clear separation of business logic and presentation (MVC)
• Easy integration of existing .NET User and custom controls
• Support for any .NET Language including c# and VB.NET
• Extremely extensible object model

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