Pam A content management system usually refers to a package of software that helps you manage a website, not your own computer files. Most blogging software (Blogger, Movable Type, TypePad) can be called CMS, as can the CivicSpace package, which I am currently learning for a couple of online community and campaign sites I am building. CivicSpace has many more features than a simple blogging system, is open source, and is still being improved by the team that started as Hackers for Dean and created DeanSpace.
http://civicspacelabs.org/ A CMS usually allows you to maintain and update a site through a web interface, without using Dreamweaver or other authoring programs. That allows you to keep up a site wherever you are, in any internet cafe in the world. That and the fact that many of them are free make them powerful tools for web expression and collaboration, and a force to narrow the divide. Best Dave On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 23:29:57 +0000, Pamela McLean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Another very basic question from Pam > Stephen Snow wrote: > > > <>(snip) (but I have found a use for the web and for a content > > management system). > > Content management system? > Does that do what it sounds as if it might do? > Is it a *system* that would help me to *manage* the *content* (currently > stored on my computer in the best way I can figure out - a rather > haphazard way which requires a level of *management* that is rather > over-stretching my unaided mental faculties)... > Is that what it does - manage content? > Is it affordable? > Is it set-up-able, and usable, by a non-techie who wants straight > forward practical help - not a lot of playing around, and steep learning > curves, and coaxing things to work? > If so - how do I become transformed into a person with a (fully working) > content management system? > Pam > _______________________________________________ > DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide > To unsubscribe, send a messa ge to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. > -- The Daily Glyph http://www.gomaya.com/glyph Usumacinta http://www.gomaya.com/dams Cell 917 312 9733 _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
