What is a CMS? 

A CMS or Content Management System is used for the control and editing of content. Content includes electronic files, images, and video based media, audio files, electronic documents, and web text.

The main concept behind a CMS is to make these files available for editing inter-office or over the internet. A CMS is often used to archive documents as well. Many using a CMS can share content with others easily, as most systems are server based. Joomla is a CMS based on a web server.

A CMS available on the internet makes it available to you and your customers constantly from anywhere around the globe, wherever there is Internet access.

How does a CMS work? 

A website content management system (CMS) is designed to run in the background of a public website. It allows administrators to edit content through an admin panel that is then shown and displays on the public front-end of the website.

Often there are several levels of users who have control over the content on the website; these can be super admins, copy writers and editors. Using a special access control system through the web browser, creators and editors can manage documents within the CMS.

Overall, the content management system controls and allows administrators to manage workflows and business processes.

Generally all content in the CMS is stored in an online SQL database system. This database system allows for quick and easy access by all applications and also affords strong security and backup capabilities. This kind of system also allows for version control of web pages.

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