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#

•Google

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?