Content Editing system

I was talking with a friend yesterday who had been to a technical writing course where the presenter was saying how Content Management Systems were a thing of the past and the next big thing is the Content Editing System.

When I think of Content Management Systems I think of the PHPNuke, PostNuke type of systems where content can be submitted, moderated, approved etc prior to publishing. With the use of BBCode or VBCode the markup becomes so simple and intuitive.

My friend couldn't explain the difference. Was this just a presenter trying to push his own software or is there really such a thing as a Content Editing System?

I don't really know, but it is probably just a different name for the same old thing. Quite common actually. You say "potayto" and I say "potarto", you say "after" and I say "Arfter", You say "content management system" I say "Content editting system" (Lets call the whole thing off... My favourite Ella Fitzgerald and Loius Armstrong song!!!!)

I'd have said the same except the speaker was saying that CMS is "so yesterday".

Thanks for being kind to a sad little kiwi

It probably depends on how you define it I guess... If you define PHP Nuke as a content management system, then I guess I would have a content editing system (sorta). PHPNuke outputs everything dynamically, so it makes sites under high load not really a possibility when using it.

I made my own editing system for the digitalpoint.com website... Where it's database driven, but not dynamically. We make changes on our end, and it does the "boring" stuff for us... the left navigation, etc., so we just worry about the actual page content (the white part). So it spits out the formatted page, scp's it to the server as a static page then. Maybe that's what they are talking about? {shrug}

- Shawn