Creating a CM Site

Creating a Content Management Site is a simple process, but should be done with great care as once saved name cannot be changed.

Step by Step guide to WebCenter Sites(Fatwire) Development : The Basics Part-1

In series of posts I will explain the basics concepts in developing a Webcenter sites based website. This is will be more of basic level tutorial which discuss on authoring level configurations and templates. The next series would be of intermediate level, where we will discussing WCS architecture and system configurations.

Step 1 : Creating a CM Site and setting up for development
Step 2 : Asset modeling and creation(Both Basic and Flex)
Step 3 : Page, Element and Template creation
Step 3a: Understanding Tags
Step 4 : Building Navigation for your site

Content Management Systems vs Portals

Content Management Systems(CMS) – CMS is an application which enables users to Create, Edit, Manage, Streamline, Publish, Archive and Retrieve content. Earlier CMS systems are primarily used to create, store and feed content to any delivery system(i.e., web application, portals, intranet etc).

Primarily a CMS systems consists of two parts,

1. Content Management Application
2. Content Delivery Application(This is optional in some cms systems, since they support external delivery systems like custom web applications and portals)

Web Content Management Systems(WCMS) – Web content management systems are typically content management systems which evolved to primarily support content delivery. These systems main focus enables business to deliver content to multiple electronic channels based on user profiles(targeted content). They also support efficient content reuse and search functionalities.

Another important feature that all web content management indirectly supports is Branding. This functionality is often overlooked by developers and business stake holders.

Portals - Portal systems are integrated content delivering(integrated) applications, for which content is acquired from multiple systems and delivered in defined format based on user permission defined by the admin.

The main difference between WCMS and Portals can be simply puts as, WCMS are content centric applications where are Portals are application centric.

At present market scenario, most of the WCMS and Portal applications are capable of handling functionalities of other. But choosing a WCMS product or Portal should be based on how efficiently they handle the business requirements at hand.