The document discusses Content Management Systems (CMS), explaining their evolution from static HTML pages to dynamic web services that separate content from presentation. It reviews various CMS options like Drupal, WordPress, and Joomla, highlighting their features and use cases, with a focus on the benefits of open source. The document also emphasizes the importance of usability, support, and the selection process for choosing the right CMS.

1. What’s a CMS and Why You Should Care Why You Should Care Bob Morse Morse Media http://morsemedia.net

2. What’s the Agenda? Basic Concepts What’s Out There - Which One? Drupal

3. CMS = Content Management System

4. Old Way Lots of Static HTML Pages

5. New Way Dynamic Content Web Services Write Once/Publish Everywhere Get Rid of Webmaster

6. How? Separate Content from Presentation (CSS) Content in Database Web Applications (Open Source)

7. Why Open Source? Free As In Beer Constant Development Portability

8. Holy Crap! Plone Drupal WordPress Joomla Typepad MoveableType Alfresco Concrete5 Umbraco Django Moodle Magnolia Silverstripe ModX OpenCMS

9. The Smackdown What’s the ultimate CMS? How do I choose?

10. Who Are You?

11. Process Feature Set Usability Support Host Environment

12. Resources OpenSourceCMS: http://opensourcecms.com CMS Matrix: http://www.cmsmatrix.org / CMSwire: http://cmswire.com Twitter: http://twitter.com # Google

13. The Popular 3 WordPress (Blog that can be a CMS) Joomla (CMS) Drupal (Web Application Framework w/CMS)

14. All systems require installation which means downloading a package, uploading to a server account using an FTP program, creating a database, following some steps which includes entering database access information, sometimes setting some file permissions, blah, blah, blah, blah.

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17. WordPress

19. Joomla

21. Drupal

25. Other Strengths of Drupal Granular Permissions System Open Architecture (hooks, APIs) Designed for Community Sites Content Types and Views Openness to the Web

28. Who Uses Drupal? Tim Berners-Lee (the father of the web which just celebrated its 20th birthday) Recovery.gov The Onion Amnesty International Arcata Chamber of Commerce

29. More? Universal Music Fast Company Mother Jones Popular Science Wiyot Tribe

30. More More? Jennifer Lopez Lifetime Television PBS Britney Spears Eureka Chamber of Commerce (soon)

31. The Future Huge improvements with each release Usability (without sacrificing flexibility) Higher level core templates/designs Even more power in core

32. Questions?