CMS e-guide http://www.cms.e-guides.org CMS (Content Management System) e-guides Sun, 04 Oct 2009 09:48:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 en hourly 1 Falkner Press – Blogger Template – BloggerTricks http://www.cms.e-guides.org/blogger/falkner-press-blogger-template-bloggertricks/ http://www.cms.e-guides.org/blogger/falkner-press-blogger-template-bloggertricks/#comments Sun, 04 Oct 2009 09:48:52 +0000 e-guides http://www.cms.e-guides.org/blogger/falkner-press-blogger-template-bloggertricks/ Falkner Press 2

Falkner Press is a magazine style Blogger template by Kranthi of BloggerTricks.com based on the wordpress theme by Dreamlinestudio.com.


Main Features:

  • Automatic Thumbnails on posts
  • Automatic Post Summarize
  • Featured Content Slider
  • Adsense ready
  • PSD Custom Logo Included
  • Youtube Video embedding Integrated
  • Fully SEO Optimized
  • Advertisement Block Ready
  • 3 Columns
  • Social Bookmarking Icons
  • Twitter Updates widget
  • Feedburner Email Subscription ready
  • Thumbnails on Recent Posts in Sidebar
  • Integrated Search box
  • Beautiful top Navigation bar
  • Cross-browser compatible
  • and many more….

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]]> http://www.cms.e-guides.org/blogger/falkner-press-blogger-template-bloggertricks/feed/ 0 Types of CMS http://www.cms.e-guides.org/reference/glossary/types-of-cms-2/ http://www.cms.e-guides.org/reference/glossary/types-of-cms-2/#comments Wed, 20 May 2009 10:48:25 +0000 e-guides http://www.cms.e-guides.org/reference/glossary/types-of-cms-2/ There are four main categories of CMS, with their respective domains of use:

Enterprise content management systems

  • An enterprise content management (ECM) system is concerned with content, documents, details and records related to the organizational processes of an enterprise. The purpose is to manage the organization’s unstructured information content, with all its diversity of format and location.


Web content management systems

  • A ‘web content management’ (WCM) system is a CMS designed to simplify the publication of Web content to Web sites, in particular allowing content creators to submit content without requiring technical knowledge of HTML or the uploading of files.

Mobile CMS

Component CMS

Types of CMS

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  • Identification of all key users and their content management roles.
  • The ability to assign roles and responsibilities to different content categories or types.
  • Definition of workflow tasks for collaborative creation, often coupled with event messaging so that content managers are alerted to changes in content. (For example, a content creator submits a story, which is published only after the copy editor revises it and the editor-in-chief approves it.)
  • The ability to track and manage multiple versions of a single instance of content.
  • The ability to capture content (e.g., scanning).
  • The ability to publish the content to a repository to support access to the content. (Increasingly, the repository is an inherent part of the system, and incorporates enterprise search and retrieval.)
  • Separation of presentation and content so material can be refactored for new uses. (E.g., use the same base content in different ways for desktop browsers, mobile browsers, and print output.)

Content management system Features

]]> http://www.cms.e-guides.org/reference/glossary/content-management-system-features/feed/ 0 Types of CMS http://www.cms.e-guides.org/reference/glossary/types-of-cms/ http://www.cms.e-guides.org/reference/glossary/types-of-cms/#comments Wed, 20 May 2009 10:43:15 +0000 e-guides http://www.cms.e-guides.org/reference/glossary/types-of-cms/ There are four main categories of CMS, with their respective domains of use:

Enterprise content management systems

  • An enterprise content management (ECM) system is concerned with content, documents, details and records related to the organizational processes of an enterprise. The purpose is to manage the organization’s unstructured information content, with all its diversity of format and location.


Web content management systems

  • A ‘web content management’ (WCM) system is a CMS designed to simplify the publication of Web content to Web sites, in particular allowing content creators to submit content without requiring technical knowledge of HTML or the uploading of files.

Mobile CMS

Component CMS

Types of CMS

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Offline processing

  • These systems pre-process all content, applying templates before publication to generate Web pages. Vignette CMS and Bricolage are examples of this type of system. Since pre-processing systems do not require a server to apply the templates at request time, they may also exist purely as design-time tools; Adobe Contribute is an example of this approach.

Online processing

  • These systems apply templates on-demand. HTML may be generated when a user visits the page, or pulled from a cache. Hosted CMSs are provided by such SaaS developers as AspireCMS, Bravenet, UcoZ, Freewebs and Crownpeak.
  • Some of the better known open source systems that produce pages on demand include Concrete5, Mambo, Joomla!, Drupal, TYPO3, Zikula and Plone, etc…
  • DotNetNuke is a partially open source CMS that runs on asp.net and is free to download and install. DNN produces pages on demand but levels and types of caching can be set. There are also many additional "modules" that can be purchased or installed for free to extend the functionality of DNN as needed, many of which create data and content dynamically.
  • Most Web application frameworks perform template processing in this way, but they do not necessarily incorporate content management features. Wikis, e.g. MediaWiki and TWiki generally follow an online model (with varying degrees of caching), but generally do not provide document workflow.

Hybrid Systems

  • Some systems combine the offline and online approaches. Some systems write out executable code (e.g. JSP, ASP, PHP,ColdFusion,Perl pages) rather than just static HTML, so that the CMS itself does not need to be deployed on every Web server. Other hybrids, such as Blosxom, are capable of operating in either an online or offline mode.
]]> http://www.cms.e-guides.org/reference/glossary/types-of-wcms/feed/ 0 WCMS Capabilities http://www.cms.e-guides.org/reference/glossary/wcms-capabilities/ http://www.cms.e-guides.org/reference/glossary/wcms-capabilities/#comments Wed, 20 May 2009 10:32:52 +0000 e-guides http://www.cms.e-guides.org/reference/glossary/wcms-capabilities/ A WCMS is a software system used to manage and control a large, dynamic collection of Web material (HTML documents and their associated images). A CMS facilitates document control, auditing, editing, and timeline management. A WCMS provides the following key features:

  • Automated templates – Create standard output templates (usually HTML and XML) that can be automatically applied to new and existing content, allowing the appearance of all content to be changed from one central place.

  • Easily editable content – Once content is separated from the visual presentation of a site, it usually becomes much easier and quicker to edit and manipulate. Most WCMS software includes WYSIWYG editing tools allowing non-technical individuals to create and edit content.

  • Scalable feature sets – Most WCMS software includes plug-ins or modules that can be easily installed to extend an existing site’s functionality.

  • Web standards upgrades – Active WCMS software usually receives regular updates that include new feature sets and keep the system up to current web standards.

  • Workflow management – Workflow is the process of creating cycles of sequential and parallel tasks that must be accomplished in the CMS. For example, a content creator can submit a story, but it is not published until the copy editor cleans it up and the editor-in-chief approves it.

  • Delegation – Some CMS software allows for various user groups to have limited privileges over specific content on the website, spreading out the responsibility of content management.

  • Document management – CMS software may provide a means of managing the life cycle of a document from initial creation time, through revisions, publication, archive, and document destruction.

  • Content virtualization – CMS software may provide a means of allowing each user to work within a virtual copy of the entire Web site, document set, and/or code base. This enables changes to multiple interdependent resources to be viewed and/or executed in-context prior to submission.

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Software as a Service:

  • AspireCMS,
  • Clickability,
  • Knivis,
  • Crownpeak,
  • Hot Banana,
  • Marqui and others

Enterprise:

  • Sitecore,
  • FatWire,
  • Vignette,
  • Interwoven,
  • Documentum,
  • MySource Matrix (Squiz),
  • Alfresco,
  • Oracle,
  • IBM Web Content Management,
  • SDL Tridion and others

Mid-market:

  • Microsoft SharePoint,
  • Kentico,
  • Goss Interactive,
  • Contrexx,
  • Ektron,
  • PaperThin,
  • Ingeniux,
  • Terapad,
  • Cascade Server,
  • Day Software,
  • Logical CMS and others

Open source:

  • Magnolia,
  • Plone,
  • Joomla,
  • Drupal,
  • Exponent CMS,
  • Alfresco,
  • Sensenet 6.0,
  • MiaCMS,
  • MMBase,
  • TYPO3,
  • MySource Matrix (Squiz),
  • WordPress,
  • DotNetNuke,
  • MyWebPageStarterKit

Web Content Management System History

]]> http://www.cms.e-guides.org/reference/glossary/web-content-management-system-history/feed/ 1 Web content management system http://www.cms.e-guides.org/reference/web-content-management-system/ http://www.cms.e-guides.org/reference/web-content-management-system/#comments Wed, 20 May 2009 10:00:51 +0000 e-guides http://www.cms.e-guides.org/reference/web-content-management-system/ A web content management system (WCMS or Web CMS) is content management system (CMS) software, usually implemented as a Web application, for creating and managing HTML content. It is used to manage and control a large, dynamic collection of Web material (HTML documents and their associated images). A WCMS facilitates content creation, content control, editing, and many essential Web maintenance functions.

Usually the software provides authoring (and other) tools designed to allow users with little or no knowledge of programming languages or markup languages to create and manage content with relative ease of use.

Most systems use a database to store content, metadata, and/or artifacts that might be needed by the system. Content is frequently, but not universally, stored as XML, to facilitate reuse and enable flexible presentation options.

A presentation layer displays the content to regular Web-site visitors based on a set of templates. The templates are sometimes XSLT files.

Administration is typically done through browser-based interfaces, but some systems require the use of a fat client.

Unlike Web-site builders like Microsoft FrontPage or Adobe Dreamweaver, a WCMS allows non-technical users to make changes to an existing website with little or no training. A WCMS typically requires an experienced coder to set up and add features, but is primarily a Web-site maintenance tool for non-technical administrators.

Web content management system

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SMF was created to replace the forum software YaBB SE, which at the time was gaining a bad reputation because of problems with its Perl-based ancestor software YaBB[citation needed]. At the time, YaBB was attributed to causing resource allocation problems on many systems. YaBB SE was written as a rough PHP port of YaBB, and had many of the same resource and security problems of the older YaBB versions. Joseph Fung and Jeff Lewis of Lewis Media Inc., the owners of YaBB SE and the original owners of SMF, made the decision to convert to a new brand and name.

SMF started as a small project by username "[Unknown]" (one of the YaBB SE developers) and its main intent was to add more advanced templating to YaBB SE. The project then slowly grew to address common feature requests, efficiency problems, and security concerns. A rehaul of YaBB SE had been in development for several years, but was superseded by this then competing project. Popular interest in the new YaBB SE fork sparked a complete rewrite of the code, with security and performance in mind. This eventually became today’s Simple Machines Forum.. The first SMF release was SMF 1.0 Beta 1a, released on 30 September 2003 to Charter Members only.

On the 23rd of October 2006, Simple Machines LLC was registered in the state of Arizona, and the transfer of copyrights from Lewis Media to Simple Machines LLC was completed on the 24th of November 2006 during a three-day retreat in Tucson, AZ. This was done for the "[solidification of] the team’s commitment to continuously providing free software, without the perceived risks of corporate influence"

Future

On 8 April 2007, Simple Machines announced the introduction of their next version, SMF 2.0 [8]. SMF 2.0 has been in development alongside SMF 1.1 since December 2005. This version will have many new features, including:

  • Database abstraction – with support for PostgreSQL and SQLite planned alongside that of MySQL.
  • Automatic installation of packages into themes other than just the default.
  • Email templates to simplify customization of forum emails.
  • Moderation center including post, topic and attachment moderation – to allow approving of user content before it is made public.
  • User warning system.
  • Additional group functionally including group moderators and requestable/free assignable groups.
  • WYSIWYG editor to provide an intuitive user interface to those users not familiar with BBCode.
  • Permission improvements such as group inheritance and permission profiles to further reduce the complexity of the permissions system.
  • File based caching for a performance increase on all forums regardless of whether an accelerator is installed.
  • Mail queuing system to stagger the sending of emails to improve performance on large forums.
  • Advanced signature settings to allow the administrator of a forum to more tightly control the contents of users signatures.
  • Personal messaging improvements including ability to automatically sort incoming messages and a variety of display options.
  • Improved upgrade script with better timeout protection and simpler user interface.
  • Custom profile fields to enable administrators to add additional member fields from the administration center.
  • Use of OpenID.

The first public beta of SMF 2.0 was released on Monday, March 17 2008.

Localization

SMF is available in over 38 languages[9], including Albanian, Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish and Ukrainian. It can be translated to other languages by volunteers. UTF-8 and non-UTF-8 encodings are available for all.

Modifications

SMF has a modification base repository for free modification hosting and tracking via the Simple Machines main site. Many modifications, or "mods" as they are usually called, have been created and distributed free of charge, including an arcade, profile additions, gallery, RPG system, spam filter, various SEO features, and many more. Before being listed on the SMF Mods site, the mod is validated by the SMF Team, to ensure that it complies with the SMF Coding Guidelines.

The Package Manager included in SMF is one of the flagship features. It allows an administrator to install modifications and updates to SMF without having to modify the code of the script, usually with only a few mouse clicks.

The SMF team

The Simple Machines team includes graphics, documentation, customization, localization, marketing, and management divisions. The SMF support staff and users also provide free support on the official community forums. Their duties include helping forum owners with troubleshooting and optimization.

Charter Members

People who wish to support Simple Machines with a donation of 50 USD yearly are rewarded with a Charter Membership. This grants access to a hidden section on the forum and advanced beta versions to test before they go public. Advanced support for SMF including installation and upgrades by the staff are also provided. Charter Members also get access to a private Helpdesk staffed by the Simple Machines Support Team where Charter Members can receive one-on-one support outside of the public forum.

SMF and free software

SMF is occasionally criticized for not being available under a free software license; the developers acknowledge this. Redistribution of the software, even unmodified, is not allowed without written permission. The source code is not redistributable either, although it is allowed to distribute instructions on how to modify it.

Minimum System Requirement

To run SMF, the webserver you’re hosted on must meet a few simple requirements. These are not terribly high, and as such most hosts meet them.

  • Any webserver that properly supports PHP, such as Apache or Internet Information Services (IIS).
  • PHP 4.1.0 or higher. The following directives are required to be set correctly in php.ini:
    • the engine directive must be On.
    • the magic_quotes_sybase directive must be set to Off.
    • the session.save_path directive must be set to a valid directory.
    • the file_uploads directive must be On.
    • the upload_tmp_dir must be set to a valid directory.
  • MySQL 3.23.4 or higher.
  • at least 512 kilobytes of storage space in the database, although more is highly recommended.
  • about two and a half megabytes of storage space on the web server, although more is recommended.

Recommended System Requirements

However, for best performance and use, a bit more is suggested. This includes the following:

  • Linux or another Unix based operating system.
  • The GNU Aspell and its dictionaries for spell checking support.
  • Apache with AcceptPathInfo set to On (Apache 2 and later only) for queryless URL support.
  • PHP 4.3.0 or higher, with the following set in php.ini:
    • the max_input_time directive is set to a value of at least 30.
    • the post_max_size and upload_max_filesize directives are set to the size of the largest attachments you wish to be able to upload.
    • the session.use_trans_sid directive set to Off.
    • the memory_limit directive is set to at least 8M.
    • the max_execution_time directive is set to at least 15.
    • the register_globals directive is set to Off.
  • MySQL 4.0.15 or higher with query caching enabled.
  • GD Graphics Library 2.0 or higher.

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Some of phpBB3’s major features include:

  • Modular design for the Admin Control Panel, Moderator Control Panel, and User Control Panel
  • Support for multiple database management systems, including MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Firebird, OpenLink Virtuoso, and other ODBC-accessible DBMS
  • Support for unlimited levels of subforums
  • Ability to create custom-defined BBCode
  • Ability to create custom profile fields
  • Permissions system

phpBB3 also provides administrators with much more control over every aspect of the forum software, such as how it is displayed to management of user and group permissions. Consequently, this increased functionality makes the administrative interface much more complex, and new users have found it somewhat more intimidating than phpBB2.

phpBB3’s default theme is called prosilver. During phpBB3’s long development process, prosilver was kept a heavily guarded secret from the public in order to prevent premature copying of the theme and so that it would not spoil the "wow" factor upon the final release of phpBB 3.0.0; however, the unexpected website downtime of March 2007 prompted the teams to change plans and unveil the new theme early. prosilver includes a number of new design concepts over its predecessor subSilver, including a new admin panel without HTML frames and reduced use of HTML tables. One of the more contentious decisions has been to move the user info panel on the viewtopic page to the right in order to provide more focus on the post content phpBB3 does not allow the use of HTML tags in comments. An alternate default theme called subsilver2 comes bundled with phpBB, which is based on the default theme from phpBB2 called subSilver. However, an administrator must install it on the board manually before it is accessible to users.

The phpBB Development Team quietly pushes out release candidates of minor updates of phpBB3 for "quality assurance testing" prior to general release. These candidates are intended to prevent the possibility of significant bugs being produced by minor updates, thus causing a subsequent critical update to be released within days of the original. (This scenario happened twice during the 2.0.x line and once during phpBB’s release candidate stage in 2007.) A mailing list is open to anyone interested in testing these "quality assurance" releases when they are available.

The latest in the 3.0.x line is phpBB 3.0.4, the "one year anniversary" version, code named "Olympus", released on December 12 2008. phpBB3 requires PHP 4.3.3 or later and is fully compatible with PHP 5.

Other Information

  • phpBB is a popular Internet forum package written in the PHP scripting language. The name "phpBB" is an abbreviation of PHP Bulletin Board. Available under the GNU General Public License, phpBB is a free software. phpBB was started by James Atkinson as a simple UBB-like forum for his own website …

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