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Content Management Systems

Content Management Systems . Saving you SO much time. Web Domain . A domain is the text that you enter into the adress bar to go to a site. It is the “adress” on the Internet It’s actually a mask for the IP adress of the website Video explaining DNS

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Content Management Systems

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  1. Content Management Systems Saving you SO much time

  2. Web Domain • A domain is the text that you enter into the adress bar to go to a site. It is the “adress” on the Internet • It’s actually a mask for the IP adress of the website • Video explaining DNS • To have your own website, you must purchase a domain. This will be your little corner of the internet • You purchase them from a Domain Registrar like enom, GoDaddy, or ,our bff, Lithium • Typically they range from $10-$15 for an unclaimed domain

  3. Web Hosting • You need a physical location (server) to actually put the files that make up your website • You can use your own computer as a server but really shouldn’t • Until now you’ve been using space on Thomas’s server • Web Hosting companies have giant banks of servers on which they rent out space.

  4. Free Hosting • Free Hosting: • Make a free blog with Blogger or WordPress.com, or a site with Goolge Sites and direct your domain to point to the location of these free sites • You are severely limited by this method

  5. Dedicated Hosting • Used for corporations and interests for whom it is essential that their sites never go down. • Very expensive. Something like $200 a month

  6. Shared Hosting • The host company splits up tiny partitions of their servers and leases them out • Perfect for small businesses and individuals • Cost: $1/month or $10/year • We will be using shared hosting from the company Lithium Hosting

  7. Let’s Get Buying • Follow allong with the Instructor

  8. What is a CMS? • Remember how much coding it took to make our webpages? • Imagine doing that for an entire website • A Content Management System (CMS) • Stores images • Formats pages • Allows you to manage your pages easily • Many extras outside our ability

  9. What It Does For You

  10. Want To Add A Page Without CMS? • Create the page in code, making sure every line is correct including that which relates to the style, nav bar, header, footer, etc. • Add it to your directory • Go to every other page and change the navigation menu

  11. Adding a Page With CMS? • Hit create page • Add content (text, pictures) • That’s it

  12. They Make Publishing Easier • The main benefit of a CMS is that it makes it easy to quickly create and publish new pages • Plugins add functionality that are beyond our scope • Search Engine Optimization • Analytics • Special Blogging functionality

  13. What It Falls Short • You are bound to the shortcomings of the themes unless you know how to code • You need to be able to write HTML and CSS if you want your website to look the way you want • CMSs are for managing CONTENT • DESIGN is in your hands

  14. Our CMS Wordpress is a free “blogging” platform, but is also a powerful CMS

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