Content Management Systems
Paul Browning, University of Bristol & Mike Lowndes, Natural History Museum, London
September 2001
Institutions are struggling to maintain their Web sites. Out of date material, poor control over design and navigation, a lack of authority control and the constriction of the Webmaster bottleneck will be familiar to many in the HE/FE sector.
The pre-millenial Web has been characterised by highly manual approaches to maintenance; the successful and sustainable post-millienial Web will have significant automation. One vehicle by which this can be achieved is the 'Content Management System' (CMS).