Web sites today have become sophisticated, dynamic experiences full of powerful services. At the same time, businesses want powerful new ways to leverage brand and engage customers, usually on a very large scale. Yet with the explosion of content on websites, managing the daily flow has become a very expensive, brittle proposition.

This is the market that content management systems (CMS) are ideal for. The Content Management Framework (CMF) from Digital Creations is designed to solve these content management issues by delivering the following benefits:

• Superior speed to market for applications and content.
• Dramatically decrease website staff workload by safe delegation of content authoring.
• Powerful searches using sophisticated organization of content.

This guide introduces users to the CMF, showing them the kinds of uses for which it is suited.

Introduction

The CMF is designed as a framework of components for the Zope application server. This approach to content management delivers a number of benefits over other solutions:

• Fast time to market
• Both buy and build.
• Reinventing content. All three tiers, multiple delivery,
• Faster ROI.
• More power for more people.
• Semantic web.
• Enforcement of content and business rules.
• Structured content.

The content services in the framework include:

• MembershipServices, including personalization
• CatalogingServices
• WorkflowServices
• BasicContentServices
• SiteDesignServices
• IntegrationServices
• DiscussionServices
• ArchivingServices
• SyndicationServices
• RatingServices
• TestingServices

From Zope, the CMF inherits a series of benefits:

• Security
• All three tiers as managed content
• Web management and authoring
• Clustering

The core set of frameworks in the CMF are Open Source, as is the Zope application server. Additionally, Digital Creations offers other value-added frameworks as part of its consulting services:

• Project management
• Help desk
• Acceleration
• Usage tracking