A Content Management System is a Web application that makes content authoring and delivery easy. It enables users to quickly and efficiently build, deploy, and maintain content-rich web sites by streamlining the web publishing process. Content Management Systems can reduce the need for costly site maintenance and thus empower users to manage their own content.CMS that manages a web site’s content, without requiring any HTML knowledge, to link pages and to control how the pages look. A CMS makes it much easier for users to create, edit, and publish the content on a web site.

the three phases of Content Management

• Content Creation
• Content Management
• Content Delivery