Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.

Features of an editorial system

Author:Tommy Sundström
Posted:6/1/1999; 3:10:29 PM
Topic:Editorial Systems for Websites
Msg #:6934 (In response to 6904)
Prev/Next:6933 / 6935

Features of a cms

Someone published this list of basic functions in a content management system (I'm sorry I don't remember who). An editorial system may be slightly different, but I think most apply:

  1. - security (object ownership, access rights, sandboxes)
  2. - roles management (who can do what, to what, where and how)
  3. - approval chains (what must happen before a page goes live?)
  4. - dependencies (this page requires the following resources: {.,.,.})
  5. - staging
  6. - version control
  7. - web interface for administration and content providers

    The points I would like to add myself is

  8. Flexibility The ability to treat pages and catalogs as objects, so that it's easy to make a page/catalog render differently depending on location in site. (This is present in the traditional Frontier modell, but is not at all as prominent in the discussion group approach to cm.)

  9. XML-support. The TCP/IP of information.

  10. Freedom of editor. To let you work with your favorit editor. (A low tech version that goes a long way, is to have a smart import function for html, that strips the content out of the tag, and directives out of tags.)





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