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A: Simply put, content management solutions enable and ease the creation and management of your web site and the content it contains. This content varies from site-to-site and business-to-business but typically consists of HTML pages, PDFs, MS Word documents, images, audio and video files. Your definition of a web site can also vary: corporate or public web site, intranet, extranet, landing page, microsite, catalog, etc. But regardless of the type of site or content that exists on it there are some basic stages universal to the content management process, including:
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Translate
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Archive
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| Q: Are ContentManagement.com and CrownPeak the same? |
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A: ContentManagement.com is a site powered by CrownPeak and CrownPeak software, and is devoted to helping customers understand best practices in deploying web content management solutions. While we certainly are the first to admit a bias toward our own solutions in this regard, our aim is to provide as well-rounded set of information as possible - including situations where we are not an applicable fit. |
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| Q: Who needs content management? |
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A: Anyone with a website. But really, if you have a significant amount of content, change the content frequently, need a workflow process for approvals, need to schedule or remove content, or need to prove what was live when, then you need a content management system. |
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| Q: Does ContentManagement.com offer a solution? |
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A: No. ContentManagement.com provides information only. But hopefully, through the information we offer, the solution that is appropriate for your situation becomes much clearer. |
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| Q: I’m not very savvy with web site design and management. What type of skills do you need to use a content management system? |
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A: Well of course that really depends on the content management system doesn't it? Basically, it all comes down to the web site, and the business goals of that web site. If you have a 100 page web site, and it doesn't change but once every quarter - then a business-class content management system is probably not going to be very cost-effective for you. In this case, using something like DreamWeaver, or Contribute or other small, installed system is probably a good idea. However, if you get into the hundreds, or thousands of pages - and the content changes quite frequently - then you'll want to explore the wide variety of CMS solutions available. You should review our best practices area for some information on this. And certainly many other sites such as CMSWatch, CMSWire and CMSMatrix can also provide some excellent resources. |
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| Q: Does ContentManagement.com offer training or consulting? |
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A: No. This site is hopefully just a little bit of help in your CMS search. |
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| Q: Can I submit content to ContentManagement.com |
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A: Yes! Please Do. We'd love to add more content - and we're always looking for great content to post. If you are an agency, or a consultant and have any great lessons learned or other things that you'd like to submit, our editorial folks would love to see it. We don't offer any compensation for it - but we would be happy to link to your site in return. Please contact us |
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