| A content management system (CMS) Sydney is a | | | | HTML were very basic, only giving websites basic |
| system used to manage the content of a Web site. | | | | structure (headings and paragraphs), and the ability to |
| Content management systems are deployed primarily | | | | link using hypertext. This was new and different to |
| for interactive use by a potentially large number of | | | | existing forms of communication - users could easily |
| contributors. Web content management systems are | | | | navigate to other pages by following hyperlinks from |
| often used for storing, controlling, versioning, and | | | | page to page. |
| publishing industry-specific documentation such as | | | | Improvements in browsers' compliance with W3C |
| news articles, operators' manuals, technical manuals, | | | | standards prompted a widespread acceptance and |
| sales guides, and marketing brochures. | | | | usage of XHTML/XML in conjunction with Cascading |
| The intent of web design is to create a web site -- a | | | | Style Sheets (CSS) to position and manipulate web |
| collection of electronic files that reside on a web | | | | page elements and objects. Latest standards and |
| server/servers and present content and interactive | | | | proposals aim at leading to browsers' ability to deliver |
| features/interfaces to the end user in form of Web | | | | a wide variety of media and accessibility options to |
| pages once requested. Such elements as text, | | | | the client possibly without employing plug-ins. Typically |
| bit-mapped images (GIFs, JPEGs, PNGs), forms can | | | | web pages are classified as static or dynamic. |
| be placed on the page using HTML/XHTML/XML tags. | | | | Static pages don't change content and layout with |
| Displaying more complex media (vector graphics, | | | | every request unless a human (web master |
| animations, videos, sounds) requires plug-ins such as | | | | programmer) manually updates the page. Dynamic |
| Flash, QuickTime, Java run-time environment, etc. | | | | pages adapt their content and/or appearance |
| Plug-ins are also embedded into web page by using | | | | depending on end-user's input/interaction or changes |
| HTML/XHTML tags. Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of | | | | in the computing environment (user, time, database |
| the World Wide Web, published a website in August | | | | modifications, etc.) Content can be changed on the |
| 1991. Berners-Lee was the first to combine Internet | | | | client side (end-user's computer) by using client-side |
| communication (which had been carrying email and | | | | scripting languages (JavaScript, JScript, Actionscript, |
| the Usenet for decades) with hypertext (which had | | | | etc.) to alter DOM elements (DHTML). Dynamic |
| also been around for decades, but limited to browsing | | | | content is often compiled on the server utilizing |
| information stored on a single computer, such as | | | | server-side scripting languages (Coldfusion, ASP, JSP, |
| interactive CD-ROM design). Websites are written in a | | | | Perl, PHP, Python, etc.). Both approaches are usually |
| markup language called HTML, and early versions of | | | | used in complex applications. |