What’s a CMS and Why You Should
Care
Bob MorseMorse Media
http://morsemedia.net
What’s the Agenda?
•Basic Concepts
•What’s Out There - Which One?
•Drupal
CMS
= Content Management System
Old Way
Lots of Static HTML
Pages
New Way
•Dynamic Content
•Web Services
•Write Once/Publish Everywhere
•Get Rid of Webmaster
How?
•Separate Content from Presentation (CSS)
•Content in Database
•Web Applications (Open Source)
Why Open Source?
•Free As In Beer
•Constant Development
•Portability
Holy Crap!
Plone
Drupal
WordPress
JoomlaTypepad
MoveableType
Alfresco
Concrete5
Umbraco
DjangoMoodle
Magnolia
SilverstripeModX
OpenCMS
The Smackdown
What’s the ultimate CMS?How do I choose?
Who Are You?
Process
•Feature Set
•Usability
•Support
•Host Environment
Resources•OpenSourceCMS:
http://opensourcecms.com
•CMS Matrix: http://www.cmsmatrix.org/
•CMSwire: http://cmswire.com
•Twitter: http://twitter.com#
The Popular 3
•WordPress (Blog that can be a CMS)
•Joomla (CMS)
•Drupal (Web Application Framework w/CMS)
All systems require installation which means downloading a package, uploading to a server account using an FTP program, creating a database, following some steps which includes entering database access information, sometimes setting some file permissions, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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10 Minutes
WordPress
Joomla
Drupal
Other Strengths of Drupal
•Granular Permissions System
•Open Architecture (hooks, APIs)
•Designed for Community Sites
•Content Types and Views
•Openness to the Web
Who Uses Drupal?•Tim Berners-Lee (the father of the
web which just celebrated its 20th birthday)
•Recovery.gov
•The Onion
•Amnesty International
•Arcata Chamber of Commerce
More?
•Universal Music
•Fast Company
•Mother Jones
•Popular Science
•Wiyot Tribe
More More?
•Jennifer Lopez
•Lifetime Television
•PBS
•Britney Spears
•Eureka Chamber of Commerce (soon)
The Future
•Huge improvements with each release
•Usability (without sacrificing flexibility)
•Higher level core templates/designs
•Even more power in core
Questions?