Content Management 

A content management system, or CMS, allows both technical and non-technical users the ability to manage web content or electronic media. This media may consist of text, images, web applications, web functions, multimedia files, and many other things. The lifecycle of this media can be determined and controlled by the web publisher and consists of content creation, the updating of existing content, publishing, removal of outdated content, and archiving.

All of these functions can be managed with a CMS system. A web administrator generally allocates tasks or web sections to one or multiple content editors. Each of these editors then plays an important role in the creation and management of site content. Overall site management is generally a collaboration of users that are "permissioned" to perform certain web-related tasks. Once content has been created, it must then be published to the live website.