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Started by Hamed, Mar 13 2010 04:26 AM

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Hamed
Posted 13 March 2010 - 04:26 AM

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Hello,
Which type of softwares are CMS?
Can a forum,blog,news software be a CMS?
What CMS should be have?

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Posted 13 March 2010 - 01:27 PM

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CMS means Content Management System. For example.. Joomla is a CMS and PHPnuke is a CMS.
Forum is forum and blog is blog. Your CMS can have a forum for example.. PHPnuke has phpBB forum automatically integrated..

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Hamed
Posted 14 March 2010 - 04:00 AM

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Then CMS is different because I think CMS can be a software which mange content.

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Posted 14 March 2010 - 04:16 AM

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Yes you are correct, CMS is a software that manages content.

Check this:
http://en.wikipedia....nagement_system

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Hamed
Posted 14 March 2010 - 04:20 AM

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I read Wikipedia and after that I think forum can be CMS,
What do you mean content ?
I think this is my problem?

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Posted 14 March 2010 - 06:04 AM

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Well basically forum is a cms.. but a cms is a site software where you can add pages and things like that.. Forum is just.. a forum , like this.

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Posted 14 March 2010 - 06:14 AM

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Thanks,
I want to make online newspaper, and I can add page and manage them can this be a CMS?

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Posted 14 March 2010 - 11:48 AM

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If you want to create an online newspaper.. then I suggest a blog system Wordpress for example.

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Hamed
Posted 15 March 2010 - 06:41 AM

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I want to do it as my final project then I want to do it myself!`

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Posted 15 March 2010 - 08:25 AM

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Well, it's really simple to make a blog.. So creating a newspaper site isn't very hard. :)

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Posted 15 March 2010 - 10:52 AM

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I recommend wordpress.com for your online newspaper site as Jaan said.
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