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Content management systems

A 

content management system (CMS)

 provides a method for  non-  specialists to update 

website pages. This is an efficient method of publishing content since the facility can be 

made available to people throughout the company. Today there are two main forms of CMS, 

both of which are delivered as web services which can be accessed through a web browser. 

Enterprise CMSs can be used for large, complex sites (and other corporate documents) and 

as well as the standard page creation and editing facilities offer version control and review 

of documents through workflow systems which notify reviewers when new documents are 

ready for editing. CMS for smaller companies traditionally lack workflow or  multi-  author 

facilities, but offer many of the other features to create content. But blogging platforms such 

as Wordpress and Moveable Type are increasingly used by smaller businesses for managing 

their entire site since they have enterprise features.