Differences Between Content Management Systems

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In today's technology era, we find ourselves entering a period where communication accelerates, becoming increasingly important. Correspondingly, the value of information increases exponentially with this speed. The new opportunities brought by this increasing information lead to ongoing competition and work. Previously, these knowledge exchanges were seen in conferences, sermons, written books, memoirs, newspapers, but now we witness this functionality based on a specific location in virtual environments. This functionality is called Web Technologies. Sharing information has accelerated so much today that we can now transfer information to millions of people with just a press of a button. With the advancement of this process, while there were groups providing sectoral services such as publishing houses, conference buildings, newspapers for information sharing, the functionality moved to the virtual environment. This led to the emergence of a software sector called Web Technologies that caters to this sharing, entirely done through a website running on a server in a virtual environment. Websites began to be developed in 1991 and reached Turkey on April 12, 1993, connected with a line from ODTÜ in Ankara to Washington.
The evolution of websites can be said to consist of two phases: Static Websites and Dynamic Websites. Static websites are created on a page basis using languages such as HTML, DHTML, CSS, SWF, JavaScript, and even JQUERY. As this journey progressed, with ASP.Net, ASP, PHP, JSP, CFM languages, websites became dynamic, interactive, functional, and developable. However, due to the significant costs involved in this increasingly widespread and necessary development process, challenges emerged. This is where the sole idea of Content Management Systems (CMS) came about, offering low-cost solutions that cater to almost every sector, system, individual, and need.
If we take journalism sector as an example, in the past, newspapers, magazines, wall newspapers evolved wider-reaching platforms with radio and television, but still confined to a specific location. But when we think that the industry now operates in a Web-based model, information and news can be conveyed to users in a few seconds from a point to users that this would otherwise take hours via the fastest means.
What are Content Management Systems? Content Management Systems (CMS) that evolved into a web technology in collaboration between CNET and Vignette in 1995. Nowadays, it has become a guide in the Web market. These systems have evolved into the portal systems, wiki systems, groupware and similar sub-disciplines, showcasing their adaptability across various sectors and fields.
How do Content Management Systems work? We mentioned journalism before. Imagine a news site with a General Publisher overseeing news directors, editors, and content creators. In a web-based environment, the system would consist of a site manager, directors, editors, writers, correspondents we can refer to as Content Editors. Editors publish news, the respective site manager checks, adjusts, or removes the content as needed.
What are the Content Management Systems? Most Content Management Systems can be categorized by the languages they are built upon such as Typo3, Xaraya, Plone, PostNuke, Vignette, Zope, Textpattern, PHPwcms, PHP-Nuke, Xoops, Bricolage, CMSimple, DotNetNuke, WordPress, Drupal, eZ Publish, Mambo, Metadot, and more.
To sum up, the evolution of websites and forums has introduced diverse platforms and possibilities for sharing information, catering to various needs across different sectors. The choice between systems like WordPress, Joomla, Drupal for websites, or platforms like IPBOARD, vBulletin for forums depends on criteria such as SEO, usability, and security requirements of the specific project or business needs.