CMS - 19th January 2012

Today Ben got me to do a small test to see what i have learnt through out the course and went through the answers with me.After that he used me as his 'guinea pig' to test his notes on how to create a CMS (content management system). A CMS is a system that stores all of your source files used to create a webpage online so you can access them from any location and allows for much easier editing. The advantage of this is for those who dont understand how to edit a webpage using HTML, it makes it easier for them to make the changes they want without having to get a designer to keep changing the code each time etc. I did this by downloading a program called 'concrete5', once i had done this i installed filezilla on one of the new computers. I also had to login into my hosting site (x10 web host) and create a new database which allows me to store all my source files on.  I unzipped the concrete5 folder onto the desktop and opened the public HMTL folder on filezilla and created a new directory which i called CMS and dragged all the concrete5 files into this directory which contains roughly 3000 folders.