WCMS or website?

adonis10

What is the difference between a Web Content Management SYstem and a website?

agrinnall

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_content_management_system

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Website

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adonis10

agrinnall wrote: »

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_content_management_system

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Website

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Not really, I'd like a very simple explanation in layman's terms.

wongataa

adonis10 wrote: »

Not really, I'd like a very simple explanation in layman's terms.

Websites are what you see in a web browser (IE, Edge, Chrome, Opera, Firefox, Safari, etc).
A web content management system is a system that a person who is responsible for a website uses to define what content is shown on the website in question.

The first paragraphs of the wiki pages mentioned above explain this in terms that anyone should be able to understand reasonably easily.

Sooler

Web Content Management System

A System used to Manage the Content of a Website :rudolf:

Zola.

adonis10 wrote: »

What is the difference between a Web Content Management SYstem and a website?

Here you go mate

https://lmgtfy.com/?q=What+is+the+difference+between+a+Web+Content+Management+SYstem+and+a+website%3F

paddyrg

Rather than updating individual pages in raw HTML for every change of the site, a CMS gives a simple interface to do so and may make changes to the whole site in one go. The CMS may also handle meta functionality such as search, advert, etc.

chunter

The Web Content Management System I would think is driven by a database, that someone is updating and manipulating - like wordpress, joomla and other CMSs.
By changing stuff in the database, you change the website

I'm assuming the 'website' is simply a bunch of pages that you manipulate by changing the actual code of the various pages.