In order to understanding this text it is recommended to describe CMS before.
What is CMS?
In fact Content Management System (CMS) is a software which installs on server and will let users to change the content of a website without re-designing it.
As far as we know website designers create some templates to design pages (CMS designing) therefore site administrator can use these templates and simply add needed pages to the site or remove some of them.
In fact CMS will let administrator who is a user to manage website contents without any skill or knowledge of designing.
As was discussed, user can add pages using CMS delete them or make his own changes to pages. Furthermore he can possibly import some data from website users and edit, delete or display them.
In CMS, a composition or structure shall be used for all sectors. In other words, different portions of a site will be supported by Content Management System (CMS).
Some features of CMS:
- Support of different languages (multilingual)
- Ability to create a virtual store
Ability to automatically generate site map
- Ability to search information in Site
- Provide site visitors statistics report
- Users can create forms for data entry
In general, the CMS can be summarized in this sentence:
CMS is a program or a web based software that provides the ability of design and creates web pages according to user requirements.
The concept of CMS described here. After presenting different versions of CMS (with different titles), welcomes of users increased. But some of that deficit, which existed, especially for some of the organs, institutions and large organizations, caused that designers produce a powerful software with more capabilities called "Portal". It has more facilities to increase site capabilities and easily internal communication for organizations.
In fact, a portal application, collects a class of applications together in one site (works in each section is completely separate from other departments) to provide various services for users.For example, tools for creating news portal, Organizational portal, electronic Shop, personal website, forum, fast search and ect Have been placed in a portal.
Thus CMS is part of Portal. Because features in the portal are more complete. But however that in addition to large organizations due to the extensive facilities on the portal since they often use, ordinary because of the ease of working with Portal, users can also easily use portal to establish a dynamic websites filled with possibilities.
Ultimate differences between CMS and portal include:
- Support from SSO
- Ability to exchange information with the other portals and collected the information from different sources
- Possibility to connect of portals in different domain (Sites Join)
- Using the communication technology on different protocol such as HTTP and HTTPS
Nowadays Internet users tend to visit those sites, which have the ability to interact with users. Existence of such possibility, would be effective in attracting the visitors and site users. On the other hand also Administrators of site are looking for the software to easy in order to create and manage web sites and also manage the users of site and their interaction with it. With these explanations, with extensive capabilities, and also coverage most requirements of managers and users in the portal software, this software is the best tool for creating and managing websites right now.
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