Sunday, December 5, 2010

CMS - The Website Backdoor

I made a blog post back in October concerning the idea behind content management system (CMS). This blog will pick up where I left off in the previous post.

In October I mentioned the online CMS applications, butit can be difficult to understand how the system works. In basic terms, the online application functions as the backdoor to a website. To describe in a simple way, the CMS is part of the website, but, it is password protected so nobody other than the administrators with the password can access it. Since the CMS functions as a website, the link to the CMS login is commonly hidden. Think of the CMS area as a members area of a website where one cannot access the full content without being a member.

When an administrator has logged into the members area, the person can fully edit the website's content. How this works will be explained in the next blog entry...

-Oliver Grau

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