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What is an open source CMS?
From the course: CMS Essential Training
What is an open source CMS?
In this chapter, I am going to discuss many of the terms and concepts that you'll come in contact with while researching or working with content management systems. Being familiar with these terms will make it easier to compare CMSs and give you a greater understanding of how they work. I want to start with a term that you here a lot as you'll be working with content management systems, 'open source'. Open-source CMSs are often listed as a separate category and even have entire web sites dedicated to the latest open-source CMS news and reviews. So what exactly makes a CMS open source? To understand that, let's take a moment to go back and revisit the evolution of CMSs that we discussed earlier. In the mid to late '90s, an explosion a proprietary content management systems joined the market. A proprietary CMS is one that's developed by a single corporation and then licensed to clients that wish to use it. In many cases, the CMS would be customized specifically for that client and their…
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What is an open source CMS?3m 4s
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What is a LAMP stack?2m 53s
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What are WebDAV and FTP?2m 39s
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What is MySQL?2m 24s
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WYSIWYG editors3m 56s
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Understanding users, groups, and permissions4m 12s
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What is metadata?5m 19s
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Understanding taxonomy3m 35s
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What is version control?4m 23s
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What are themes and templates?3m 30s
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What is SEO?4m 42s
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What are web analytics?3m 21s
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