Welcome on Guide CMS

by Guy Vigneault — last modified Nov 16, 2011 03:09 PM

The widest data base referential for CMS (Content Management Systems) or, what the French-speaking people call, the PGC (Progiciels de Gestion de Contenu). Here, you will find the best information with regards to the large majority of the CMS, and their tools, found throughout the Web.

I am extremely happy to welcome you on this site which will replace CMS-Quebec.

I would like to thank Pilot Systems for hosting the site.

Sponsor
Hosting Pilot Systems is a consulting company which provides integration, customization, and support services on open source and free software. We also offer hosting and training. Our customer includes mostly French companies (SMB, Fortune 500), Public Administrations and NGOs. While our competences span a wide range of open source softwares and technologies, we are specialized in Python, Zope and Plone.

Description from Wikipedia

A content management system (CMS) is a collection of procedures used to manage work flow in a collaborative environment. These procedures can be manual or computer-based. The procedures are designed to do the following:

Allow for a large number of people to contribute to and share stored data
Control access to data, based on user roles (defining which information users or user groups can view, edit, publish, etc.)
Aid in easy storage and retrieval of data
Reduce repetitive duplicate input
Improve the ease of report writing
Improve communication between users

In a CMS, data can be defined as nearly anything: documents, movies, pictures, phone numbers, scientific data, and so forth. CMSs are frequently used for storing, controlling, revising, semantically enriching, and publishing documentation. Serving as a central repository, the CMS increases the version level of new updates to an already existing file. Version control is one of the primary advantages of a CMS.