What Is A Content Management System

Put simply a content management system is a system that helps you manage the content on a website. I know George, I know - you could have guessed that from the title. Of course you want a better explanation than that.  With an old style website you built each page individually out of a special code called html. You manually linked one page to another using this code. When you added a new page to your site you had to go back and edit your previous pages to also link to the new page.

Content Management Systems - Are There Any Drawbacks

At its worst you could end up editing an awful lot of pages.  Things did get slightly better over the years - there were tools that helped the web administrator automate this process. Typically these tools ran on his PC and he maintained all of the working files on his PC occasionally placing updated files onto the internet. Of course only this one person (or a very small very well co-ordinated group) could do this because only they had access to these 'working files'.