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Web content management: The separation of content and presentation

Web content management: The separation of content and presentation

From the course: Foundations of Enterprise Content Management

Web content management: The separation of content and presentation

- One of the interesting things that's happening in content management is how it's evolving into web content management. One of the reasons WordPress is so popular is that is makes it easy to track and manage content in a website. Having the ability to not only manage company created content, but social content as well. Comments, profile information, and et cetera, has become critical for many businesses. WordPress also gives a lot more control over publishing schedules with their calender feature. You can use this when you are working with posts to set them up to publish on a future date, or back-date them if that's necessary as well. As a logical extension of this, there's a distinction in many content management systems between content and presentation, and this makes sense, right? A normal webpage consists of content, HTML or some other mark-up, but the way that it looks on the page is defined by the styles and CSS…

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