If you want to know in general terms what a web cms system is,
this article should help get you started in the right direction. It is the first in a series of four articles that I have composed. At the end of each article is a link to the next article so you should be able to follow them through from start to finish. None of them are very long as I wanted to make it an easy read that can be taken in during a reasonable amount of time yet still be informative.
For a demonstration of a website that is ran by a cms system, my site is one such site. It is driven by a cms package known as PostNuke, a system written in the PHP language with MySQL as the back end database.
Now, I know how some are loyal to their language of choice, so please do not feel tht I am saying this is the only solution. I happened to come across it first and really like the way it works.
But I am also planning to develope a site driven by one of the Microsoft languages used in another cms package. One package written in a Microsoft language, VB.NET to be exact, can be found at the home site of
DotNetNuke.
I am learning C#.NET for work related projects, so my personal taste is leaning more toward a cms package called
Rainbow which is written in C#.NET. There is a new version of it in the works under the code name of
vNext which is targeting ASP.NET 2.0.
So far from what I gather, DotNetNuke has more of a following but since I am working on learning C# for work and actually studying to attempt the MCAD certification, I'm leaning toward Rainbow for my .NET based cms site.
Hope this helps you out.
