emad, thank you for the reply. i agree on your definition however given a publishing scenario, how would i apply CMS? how would content be broken down? im actually doing a publishing(online magazine or newsletter) management system(believing that it will be conceptualize from CM) but my professor is insisting that my proposal is a document management not a content management. i hope you can use a publishing application as an example. thank you!
regards, alvin --- emad Sarhan - Arab IT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Alvin Tan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 3:24 PM > Subject: [cms-list] new to list/cm > > > > Hi List Members, > > > > My name is Alvin Tan from the Philippines and im > new > > to this list. I(along with 3 groupmates) am > proposing > > a thesis topic this coming Monday regarding CM. > For a > > week, we have been reading through articles online > but > > we always get confused on what really is CM > because > > each article or vendor case study we read are > defining > > or scoping CM differently. Some CM defines as > purely > > web site management and some are not. I hope some > list > > members can help us out on this. We also need to > > propose an application using CM concept to solve a > > particular IT/IS problem. Real world examples or > CM > > experiences will really help us understand it. > Another > > uncertainty we are dealing/anwering is that , > should > > there be a EDMS (Document Management) in place for > CM > > to work? Well, i'll stop here for now. Any > > suggestions? Replies will really be appreciated. > Thank > > yuo and im glad i found this list! > > > > Regards, > > Alvin Tan > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > 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. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- http://cms-list.org/ more signal, less noise.
