When content is king, and up-to-date information is vital to SEO
efforts, every website should have a CMS. Understanding how your CMS
works is vital to understanding how to manipulate your website's
content. In this post, we will be discussing how a CMS allows you to
interface with your database so you have a better understanding of what
that "Submit" button really does. I will try to keep the technical
jargon to a minimum and use analogies when possible. We'll discuss
What is a CMS
A Content Management System (CMS), is a Graphic User Interface (GUI)
that makes interacting with a website's database user friendly. There
are thousands of CMS options for websites, such as Wordpress, Drupal,
Wix and Grid, and all of these CMS systems work differently, allowing
the website admin different levels of permission and control. I'm using
one right now to write and post this blog. Although the CMS is the
entirety of the web application (database tables, admin panel and
front-end display), a CMS is typically judged on the functionality of
its admin panel. Wordpress is the most popular CMS because of its large
plugin library, which exponentially increases its admin panels
functionality.
The Information Network
Let's start at the server. Think of it as an internet hotel. Your
website hosting account, that thing you pay GoDaddy for, is a room
within that hotel. Within that hotel lives your database. Still with me?
It's probably named something like, Wordpress-2011, but let's call him
Kyle. Kyle loves tables, not the four legged kind, but the spreadsheet
type. He loves making tables. He makes tables for your website's menu,
pages, blog posts and images. In fact, all he does is make table after
table, storing them in neat, numbered rows.
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