What is a Content Management System (CMS)?

Posted in: Blog, CMS by Ken Mitchell on August 16, 2010

A website is made up of one or more web pages. Each web page is fetched by a web server (from either files, or databases, or some combination of the two), packaged into envelopes for traversal through the internet, and presented on your computer monitor by a web browser. A small website may consist of just a couple of web pages, each represented by a single file on the web server. But a typical website can quickly grow to dozens, or even hundreds of web pages. This would be nearly impossible to manage if each web page was a separate file. That’s where the CMS comes in. Read more…