BoftIndia: Content Management System (CMS) is a program used to create a framework for the content of a Web site. With most CMS, the framework can be customized with a “skin” that defines the look & feel. This approach is opposite to defining the look & feel first then coding the functionality second. Whereas the majority of cost of a website is in the functionality, the CMS approach is often significantly more cost effective. Web CMS is not an IT tool, a Marketing tool or a corporate communications tool but a business tool, which benefits the entire organization. No one knows your business better than you do, and no one knows what you want to say, or how you want things to look, more than you. A CMS gives you direct control over the content on your web site. Sites that change and update their content on a regular basis not only give your business the appearance of being alive and more active, but search engines give higher emphasis on new and fresh content. Once you have a content management system set up, you're much more likely to add more content to your site because it's now so much easier.The result is a much more robust site with more pages than you had before. Each of these new pages is likely to be cataloged by the search engines resulting in higher rankings as well as more opportunities to draw more traffic to your site. Many content management systems store your information in a database system where access control mechanisms can more easily restrict access to your content. Done correctly, the information is only accessible via the CMS thereby providing better protection for your site's content from many common and standard web site attacks.