AboutMuhammad Mudasser Khan Expertise Project Management, How to manage costs with improved procedures and use of technology. How to implement an outsourcing strategy for your multilingual needs. How to design, develop and implement a strategy. How to integrate multilingual features in Content Management Systems. How to approach Internationalization/translation/localization (l10n) of documentation, software, web. Questions on Translation Memory and Terminology standards.Enterprise Document Management Systems,Humming Bird,Warehouse Management Systems,online multilingual brokerage system to attract foreign investors a facilitation
Experience My total Experience of the Industry is 5 years and These days attach with the Bank and Implementing new SOP's for Document Archiving
Organizations United Bank Limited
Education/Credentials MBA in Finance and had done Bs in Computer Science
Awards and Honors Design and Develop Presentation for City District Govt Karachi(E&IP Dept),Pakistan on Multilingual presentation slides to attract foreign investors to invest in development projects across city.
Question Hello Mr. Mudasser Khan
As most websites that are being designed and developed nowadays are content management driven (CMS), what would be the best CMS software to use to build a website for a client? Joomala or Word press? I hear a lot of great things about Word press, but is it a CMS or just a blogging tool.
Thanks for your time.
Answer 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.
Most systems also use some form of server side caching which enables a boost of performance. This works best when the WCMS is not intended to be changed often but visits happen on a regular basis.
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.
Capabilities
A WCMS is a software system used to manage and control a large, dynamic collection of Web material (HTML documents, images and other forms of media).[5] 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.[6]
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.
Web content management systems began to be formally developed as commercial software products in the mid 1990s. In the mid 2000s, the web content management market became a fragmented market as a plethora of new providers emerged to complement the traditional vendors. These web content management systems are typically broken down into several groups:
Software as a service: Alfresco, Sensenet 6.0, WHACK CMS, MiaCMS, MMBase, TYPO3, MySource Matrix (Squiz), WordPress, DotNetNuke, My Managed CMS and others
Enterprise: WebGUI, WHACK CMS, Ektron, Sitecore, FatWire, Open Text, Vignette, Interwoven, Documentum, MySource Matrix (Squiz), Alfresco, Oracle dotCMS, SDL Tridion Nstein WCM by Nstein Technologies, and others
Mid-market: Expression Engine, Cookie Jar, Microsoft SharePoint, Kentico, Goss Interactive, PaperThin, Ingeniux, Terapad, Cascade Server,Day Software, Logical CMS and others
Open source: WebGUI, Magnolia, Plone, Joomla, Drupal, dotCMS, Exponent CMS, Alfresco, Sensenet 6.0, MiaCMS, MMBase, TYPO3, MySource Matrix (Squiz), WordPress, DotNetNuke and others.
