Wow Wow I am very happy that I am talking to one who has good exp in CMS If you think that systems that offer for users the ability just to edit pages and use template to create them is a real CMS, that means realy I am new in CMS and I need to learn more Management is very important but Content in CMS is more important CMS is created to help creating and editing Content and that is why, the standards must be for CONTENT not for Application
Thanks Emad Sarhan Fax :+966 1 4644543 Riyadh 11595 - Saudi Arabia ----- Original Message ----- From: "Justin McCamish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 1:50 AM Subject: [cms-list] Re: new to list/cm - What is CMS????? > Hear, hear! Emad's reply (reproduced below) to the > question of "What is CMS" (often broached on this > list, naturally) is clear-headed, vendor-neutral and > timely. It reminds us of what is often incorrectly > assumed to be a commonly understood paradigm. > > We've all read plenty of suppliers' and clients' > answers to this question on the list over the years. > They they often (though, not always) fall prey to the > desire to either push a product or vault off toward > the esoteric margins. > > No-one would argue that debate on the nature of CMS > and the relative ability of products to deliver to > that is unneccessary - it's the list's raison d'etre > after all. However, distinguishing between the > management engine, the delivery layer and the > dynamically generated "product" underpins the > understanding of whether what is hawked as a CMS > really is a CMS. > > As vendors merge, clients' information architectures > and processes mature and CMS philosophies coalesce > (hopefully toward some useful standards), it's worth > re-examining the core attributes of content managment. > > If you're new to the world of content management or > need reminding of the basic (and most robust) > philisophies, read on. > > -j > > ---SNIP--- > From: "emad Sarhan - Arab IT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [cms-list] new to list/cm - What is > CMS????? > Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 23:28:58 -0800 > > What is CMS? > > No one until now know what is Really CMS > Some vendors provides application for web site > management or page > management > and they think they are providing CMS > When you see a system that only give you the ability > to create pages > depending on Template and, manage the created pages, > you are working > with > design or HTML editing tool > If you see, in addition to that, a Workflow and > authorization that can > be > assigned to these pages, you are working with web or > pages management > tool > > But if you see a system that work with content > elements and give you > the > ability to use or re-use these content elements to > create different > type of > content blocks that can be used to create different > format of unlimited > number of pages with workflow and authorization > assigned to them, you > are > working with CMS > > And also, if you see a system that in addition to all > above enables you > to > create personalization and content delivery, you are > working with > extended-CMS or portal solution > > > > This is CMS > > CMS must help you define you content elements as you > need > CMS must help you sharing and publishing information > in different > format > CMS must help you create as many pages as you want > form specific > content > element > CMS help users create and edit content NOT pages > CMS Create Pages from content NOT content from Pages > CMS Manage the pages that are created by CMS itself > NOT by user > CMS provide Workflow and authorization in the content > element itself > NOT in > Pages > > > Thanks > > Emad Sarhan > Tech Manager - Arab IT > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. > http://mailplus.yahoo.com > -- > http://cms-list.org/ > more signal, less noise. > -- http://cms-list.org/ more signal, less noise.
