Content Management System

Software that enables you to add and/or manipulate content on a website. Typically, a CMS consists of two elements:

• the content management application (CMA)
• content delivery application (CDA)

The CMA element allows the content manager or author, who may not know HTML, to manage the creation, modification, and removal of content from a Website without needing the expertise of a Webmaster.

The CDA element uses and compiles that information to update the Website. The features of a CMS vary, but most include Web-based publishing, format management, revision control, and indexing, search, and retrieval.