A content management system (CMS) is a computer software system used to assist its users in the process of content management. A CMS facilitates the organization, control, and publication of a large body of documents and other content, such as images and multimedia resources. A CMS often facilitates the collaborative creation of documents.

Diagram explaining how a CMS works


CMS can be used for blogs and websites. The web manager of the website logs in and have a special access which allows him to organize the different contents. He can adds some text, graphics, multimedia etc. The CMS let the blog phenomenon explode because everybody could now make his own space on the web without any money or technical skills. CMS translate our language to computer language, from wyswyg (What you see is what you get) to html or php etc.

The blog on which this article is posted works with a CMS. I have posted this text by using the CMS on which I have added links and graphics very easily. My photo website also works with a CMS. By modifying the design options, I completely changed the way it looked at the beginning.