The Banyan Infotech - Content Management System

CMS is the next step in the evolution of websites. It stands for Content Management System, which is a website that allows you to directly manage the content - both text and images. In other words, you would go to your website, login with your username and password, and start making changes to your content. Instead of working with a text editor, the CMS provides you with an interface that is very similar to a word processor. That's it. You save the changes you've made, and they're immediately reflected on the website.

Website environment

A content management system consists of much more than a word processor interface. It's a website environment that allows you to control how the information is presented. It can also manage multiple users contributing to your website content, providing different access rights for different users. 

Business oriented

Like any dynamic business, a business website is undergoing constant change. This not only applies to the content and images, but the functionality of the website. A CMS provides an environment for integrating that new functionality, whether it be:

• a rotating gallery of images
• banners
• calendars
• a shopping cart
• newsfeeds

To integrate functionality into a static website, it has to be done in a customized fashion, whereas with a CMS environment, much functionality already exist as pre-made extensions that can be integrated via the system's graphic user interface itself.

The time will come when most if not all websites will be built with a CMS. The CMS has just too many advantages over the old static web site.