A content management system, or CMS, is a web application designed to make it easy for non-technical users to add, edit and manage a website.

Not only do content management systems help website users with content editing, they also take care of a lot of "behind the scenes" work such as:

• YOU WILL NOT DEPEND ON YOUR WEBSITE DEVELOPER TO UPDATE YOUR WEBSITE!
• Making content searchable and indexable
• Keeping track of users, their permissions and security settings
• Consistency of design is preserve
• Navigation is automatically generated and adjusted (Menus are typically generated automatically based on the database content and links will not point to non-existing pages).
• Content is stored in a database (Central storage means that content can be reused in many places on the website and formatted for any device (web browser, mobile phone/WAP, PDA, print)
• Dynamic content (Extensions like forums, polls, shopping applications, searching, news management are typically modules).
• And much, much more!