For the web applications, managing and administrating its content is a prominent task. It is done by content management system (CMS). It is defined as the system that organizes and manages the documents and contents of the website. It includes creating and editing of the documents.

With the advanced web designing tools and techniques, it is possible to separate the web contents and presentation part of the web pages. This evolved the content management system that can take care of contents separately. There are many types of content management systems. They are –

• The system that helps in organizing and automation of web activities like publishing newsletters is web content management system.
• The system that manages e-commerce transaction contents that include pricing structure etc., is transactional content management system.
• The integrated content management system helps in managing enterprise documents and contents.


• The system that is used to handle publications and their content life cycle such as manuals, user guides, books, references etc., is publications content management system.
• The learning content management system helps in managing web based learning contents.

The content management system is implemented by running it on server. There are many content management systems developed and available for the users. The first CMS is the Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 that is supported by .net technology. It helps to develop content rich websites easily and efficiently.

There are many open source content management systems. These systems mainly use PHP platform that provides server side scripting to handle dynamic content of websites. The Joomla is the advanced content management systems popular these days. With content management systems like Joomla, it is possible to develop powerful interactive websites. It comes with many features that help in developing impressive web sites.

Thus, there are many content management systems available for web developers in the market with the combination of proprietary and open source solutions. The dynamic and interactive web sites have changed the scene dramatically. The latest content management systems offer features for handling dynamic contents of the sites.