What is a CMS?
A CMS to create your website?
Of the 1 million most-visited websites, 79,198 sites (79%) are built using a CMS(source). A Content Management System (CMS) is software used to create collaborative websites containing a large number of pages.
79% of websites are created using a CMS
Of the top 1 million websites worldwide, 79% were built using CMS.
The breakdown of the CMS most commonly used to build these sites is shown opposite:
- Wordpress: 39%,
- Drupal: 2.8%,
- Google Search Appliance: 2.5%,
- CPanel: 1.8%,
- Joomla!: 1.6%,
- Squarepsace: 1.4%,
- Other: 54.4%.
Source: https://trends.builtwith.com/cms
Software to create a collaborative site
A content management system (CMS) lets you create multi-page, multi-user websites.
It gives editorial users access to the editing of website pages:
- writing texts,
- add media: images, videos, sounds,
- download file management.
A CMS is collaborative because it can manage different users, levels of use and professions:
- visitors,
- editors,
- moderators,
- directors,
- webmasters,
- developers,
- web-designers.
In this way, each logged-in user accesses his or her own space, in what's known as the "back-office". In most cases, visitors are able to read the site's pages in the so-called "front-office", without authentication.
A CMS is adapted to the creation of sites with multiple pages and users, structured according to a defined tree structure.
The example shows the actors and some actions once the website has been deployed.
Example of CMS functional organization:
With a CMS, the owner becomes the editor of his site
Adding a page, associating it with a menu, modifying an image or a video: these actions become accessible to the editor or owner (and not to the site developer).
These possibilities distinguish the CMS from the static site, where any change in content depends on the developer.
CMS security is ensured by its community
In 2018, 78% of companies suffered at least one cyber-attack(source)
The risk of hacking or site piracy is present throughout the life of a site. The communities that support CMS (Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla) keep a watchful eye on security and provide patches. This advantage means that sites can be updated on a regular basis.
In most cases, updating is carried out by the developer or webmaster, for example as part of a maintenance contract.
