Basic principles of working with CMS
CMS is a toolkit for creating and administering a website without knowledge of programming languages (Content Management System). A content management system, or CMS engine, contains ready-made structure templates, a set of functions for design and data filling. CMS allows you to conveniently maintain the resource – manage access to content, change data on pages, send mail.
Created by teams of professional developers, the program modules of the CMS of a website provide processing of user actions using a visual editor, the action of which is based on graphic blocks. A set of tools allows:
Customize the desired configuration using graphic elements in accordance with the provided capabilities. Change the location and appearance of the blocks of the selected template (logo, header, menu, main content, footer) using the built-in user functions.
Administer the site – manage user access depending on the role, create newsletters, notifications, fill the ready-made page structure with content. In accordance with the resource specification, company data or information is uploaded – texts, images, archived documents. Information about the site settings and data is stored in the database on the MySQL server, and when a page is created, requests to the database are generated from the client.
How to choose a CMS for a website?
The same design and functionality can be implemented on a CMS for a website with a different set of tools. The expediency of using a particular engine depends on the data that is processed. The key parameters when choosing a CMS include the amount of content, database size, type of information (graphics, text, video or audio), and the frequency of content updates.
For the design of personal websites and blogs, we use WordPress with access control to the features provided. Easy-to-learn versions of this platform are easy to download and update even for beginners. When creating online stores with the need to connect payment systems, the leader is the Opencart system.