A content management system allows you to add content to your own website through any browser.

In the past few years the term Content Management System or CMS as it’s called has been used a lot especially when it comes to CMS or content management software or systems. It is actually a computer application which is used to manage work flow. This makes creating, editing, indexing, reviewing, searching and publishing various types of digital media i.e. electronic text and media possible.

A CMS system is used to store, control, version and publish documentation such as manuals, articles, technical manuals, sales guides, as well as marketing brochures. Content management will include image media, computer files, audio files, video files in various supported formats and electronic documents. Each of these are interdependent layers morphed into one system. There are many nomenclatures of CMS such as digital Asset management, Web content management, electronic content management etc. What these systems are designed to achieve is management and publishing of content with work flow if it’s required.

Here are a few supported features of a CMS:

1. The ability of the system to assign responsibilities and roles to various categories.
2. The ability to publish content to a repository which supports access to the content.
3. The ability of the system to capture content.
4. The identification of all the key users of the system and their roles.

These are the following types of CMS

• Web CMS
• Mobile CMS
• Enterprise CMS
• Document Management System
• Component CMS

Today almost every website needs a CMS or content management system since it makes it easy for business to manage and maintain content on their website. Content management systems make it easy for website owners to place great content on their website effortlessly. It also simplifies the process of updating and editing content as well as making it possible for people to collaborate.

Content Management is a system or structure that a website is built on. If you would like a content management system, request it up front before the site is built.

WordPress is one of the easiest and most search engine friendly blogging platforms around. Breaking your posts up into categories serve two very important purposes:

1. It makes it easy for visitors to your blog to find and read what they are looking for.
2. It makes your blog easy for search engine spiders to index hence making it more search engine friendly.

By default wordpress creates the first category which I like to call the ‘Root Category’, you can then have many sub categories below that or you can add more ‘Root Categories’ and make a few sub categories below them. The main idea of creating categories is to make your blog easy to navigate for users. I wouldn’t suggest that you make a bunch of empty categories rather start with just one category and as your posts increase you can more categories. I like to keep the posts per category limited to around 5-10 the reason is when somebody clicks on a category they probably just look at the first ten articles. Everything after that is just a waste of time as many people will never find it.

People often get confused between categories and tags. Categories help you group your posts to one particular category, where as tags are used more as identifiers. There are many people who advocate that you should just have one category and then have everything organized via tags. The problem is that this structure will not support a very large blog, its fine for a mini blog but it’s not practical for larger blogs.

When creating categories, make sure you name them accurately. I’m against category names that are larger than five words, because it just complicates your blog. If you can keep the category name limited to just one or two word then that works the best.