CMS – that’s short for Content Management System. It’s a few docs you put on your website, and afterwards yoou can use it to edit, change or publish your content at your website. To give an example, this blog is made in the CMS WordPress, it’s a CMS made for blogs, but also used for websites that contains no blog. WordPress is my big favorite, but my homepage is made in Joomla. This is a complicated big CMS, bigger than WordPress. CuteNews is also a fine program. It is very simple, and I’m possible to change it my way. But I hate the fact that it shows ‘CMS powered by CuteNews’ at every freakin’ page. An other feature that rocks about WordPress, is the use of so-called Permalinks.
Some CMS use URL’s that are very long: http://yoursite.com/index.php?id=2345&showcomments=. That’s very ugly, and not easy to find for search engines like Google. User rather want an URL like http://yoursite.com/lovely-page. It’s easy to remember and easy to share
WordPress uses Permalinks: http://yoursite.com/page or http://yoursite.com/category/featured
Joomla uses SEO: http://yoursite.com/page or http://yoursite.com/3-featured
CuteNews isn’t using Permalinks or SEO: http://yoursite.com/index.php?id=24546&showfull=true
