1. Provided by Central Web Services 541-737-1189 http://oregonstate.edu/cwshttp://oregonstate.edu/cws 1 CMS Overview: What is a Content Management System? Content Management System (CMS) Computer software, or group of interdependent software applications, used to create, edit, publish, and manage different types of content in a consistent and orderly fashion Web Content Management System A CMS designed to simplify web-based publications for users who author web based content

2. Provided by Central Web Services 541-737-1189 http://oregonstate.edu/cwshttp://oregonstate.edu/cws 2 CMS Overview: What is Drupal? Drupal is… A Web Content Management System CMS of choice for CWS A framework originally written by Belgian computer scientist Dries Buytaert, PhD as a Bulletin Board System (BBS) An open source project as of 2001 Hosted at OSU’s Open Source Lab Very active programming community at http://drupal.orghttp://drupal.org

3. Provided by Central Web Services 541-737-1189 http://oregonstate.edu/cwshttp://oregonstate.edu/cws 3 Places to go for more information: OSU Professional Development http://oregonstate.edu/training/course_list.php (Select Web Tools and Programming as Category) Central Web Services http://oregonstate.edu/cws/training Drupal http://drupal.org

4. Provided by Central Web Services 541-737-1189 http://oregonstate.edu/cwshttp://oregonstate.edu/cws 4 Demonstration: SDMG Website http://sdmg.forestry.oregonstate.edu Procedures to demonstrate: Creating new SDMG meeting Create new menu item Create new page Discussion: Member content type Who wants to be an editor What pieces get tackled first