Welcome back. Today we’re going to start off with CMS… That was the acronym for Central Middle School which I attended years ago. Now it stands for Content Management System. Let me clear up why were talking about this; so the Admerasia web site kind of is too awesome for its own good. Now the reason behind it, is that the new site only uses flash. Which is this new complicated thing which Google doesn’t seem to really care about. Odd right? I’d think that Google would be on top of that sort of thing. Anyways, to make it searchable; Admerasia is going to add in some older “html” type pages that those bros@Google actually like.

So these new old pages are going to contain sections such as; NEWS, BLOG, CAMPAIGNS, and other sorts of things. Now Admerasia doesn’t want to hire more people to update this website, or even designate a single person to be in charge of certain parts. We’ve decided that a rotation policy is going to be introduced. Ya know, like this week Jill will be in charge of updating the news, and Jack can write the blog. Next week Bonnie can write the blog, and Clyde will update the news. So now the problem is maybe Adam & Eve understand how to do this but Bill and Hillary don’t!? We need a straightforward way for everyone to update parts of the site, so easy that a caveman can do it. (Don’t sue me Geico… Come on you’ve moved onto those not-very-good commercials about the little pile of money with googly eyes, can’t I have the cave men?).

So the CMS thing will simplify how to update things and change things on the site constantly. We can change pictures, movies, text, news, blogs, tires (not tires) quickly and efficiently without compromising the actual template or site. Imagine if we didn’t use a CMS, and someone trying to help with the updating accidentally deleted a couple of lines of script commands and didn’t realize it!! Then the site may not even show up anymore and you’d have to search through thousands of lines of content just to find the problem, or worse… it could be attacked by goblins. Okay, well it’d be tough to get attacked by goblins, but you’re thinking, “Hey! That’ll never happen to me.” Never say never… Miss Frizzle from the Magic School Bus taught me that. Don’t judge, you know you liked it too.

Okay, now you’re updated on this whole CMS situation. At this point we’re trying to pick one to use, and let’s face it, we’re going to go find the reliable, state-of-the-art, elementary, and most importantly free program, and that’s where WordPress, Drupal or Joomla comes in. So after we build basic new pages for the site, we can have them be updatable via one of these programs. High-five!! Actually click high-five and give me a high-five. (pause for the high-five) Okay thanks, I know you and I both enjoyed that. I’m off to the World Language Ceremony back at Greenwich High School, later gators!

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