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CMS Overview: What is a Content Management System?. Content Management System (CMS) Computer software, or group of interdependent software applications, used to create, edit, publish, and manage different types of content in a consistent and orderly fashion Web Content Management System
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CMS Overview: What is a Content Management System? • Content Management System (CMS) • Computer software, or group of interdependent software applications, used to create, edit, publish, and manage different types of content in a consistent and orderly fashion • Web Content Management System • A CMS designed to simplify web-based publications for users who author web based content
CMS Overview: What is Drupal? • Drupal is… • A Web Content Management System • CMS of choice for CWS • A framework originally written by Belgian computer scientist Dries Buytaert, PhD as a Bulletin Board System (BBS) • An open source project as of 2001 • Hosted at OSU’s Open Source Lab Very active programming community at http://drupal.org
Places to go for more information: • OSU Professional Development • http://oregonstate.edu/training/course_list.php (Select Web Tools and Programming as Category) • Central Web Services • http://oregonstate.edu/cws/training • Drupal • http://drupal.org
Demonstration: • SDMG Website • http://sdmg.forestry.oregonstate.edu • Procedures to demonstrate: • Creating new SDMG meeting • Create new menu item • Create new page • Discussion: • Member content type • Who wants to be an editor • What pieces get tackled first