What is a content management system?

[Brian]

Can someone explain this in a simple way for me, what is a content management system?

[admin]

A cms also called content management system is used to dynamically present content pages.

If you run a big site with lots of html extension pages, its hard to make updates to every single html page. As that's whats needed when doing updates to a html site.

But when you run a site on cms script you dont have to edit much to make all pages reflect the new update. It's also easier to overlook your site through a cms backend.

Hope that helps a little.