David's New Blog

Content Management System, also known as CMS, is a type of application that lets users create, edit the content they are using. It also has ways for people to have individual roles. For example, administrators can give and take access to and from people. Editors can edit things and modify. CMS is also made of 2 different things. One way is for people to use formats like HTML, CSS, or JavaScript to make things the way you want them to be visually, allowing you to make it fit the style you like. The other way is not using Html or coding languages like that. Many examples are Microsoft word, Google Slide, Docs, Canva, Squarespace and more. these examples allow you to center words on a sheet, organize pictures, share and distribute roles like admin or editor. Oracle.com

The difference is that one is an application/website that lets you be creative with the stuff people give you. The code version is where you can have free range of whatever you want to make with the limits of your time and knowledge. The Application version can give templates to start you off and you can do this without special or technical skills. Some downsides are that whatever you get on that application or site, you get. you can’t add anything else. oracast.com

Some pros about the Code version for website design are that it takes less time, its efficient, you can start from scratch and lets you be more creative, but the cons are that it would be harder to keep updated. Pros about the Application is that you have templates and lets you design your own website without needing technical skills, but the cons are that you are limited with the options you get. CMS vs. Web Development – Differences and Choosing | Atiba Orcast.com

I can’t find a lot of info, but a redditor on Reddit that goes by the name of sleepycharlie mentions that he is glad that people outside development have this type of technology. this person then goes on about how his friend used Wix to make a website. Based on this, it does affect many freelance workers who work on website design; however, site developers are still at a good point because they have more range instead of being limited by things they don’t have.

1. Which do people use more, Computers or Phones?

• According to Research.com, More people use their phones more than Laptops. A user on Reddit posted something asking why phones are more addicting than computers. Many people replied saying that its portable, Has better lifespan than laptops, Can’t lie down with a computer, and more like that.  Research.com also says
  “categories such as video games, movies, computer hardware, and digital content have the highest mobile share of purchases.”

2. Who controls the entire Internet? What makes the internet, the “internet”?

• Britannica.com says No Single Person controls the internet. EliteGroup.com says the same while going more in depth. Many people Played big roles, like Tim Berners Lee thought of making Hypertext, connecting Hyperlinks.

3. What is Tim Berners Lee known for and who is he?

• Tim Berners Lee is an English computer scientist that invented the world wide web by Combining Hyperlinks with the internet. w3.org and EliteGroup.com

4. What is a blog?

• A Blog is “a website on which one person or group puts new information regularly, often every day” according to Cambridge English dictionary.

5. What is a “responsive” website design?

• Responsive Website design is when a website adjusts screen resolution and auto resizes images. Smashmagazine.com

6. Why are “responsive” website designs necessary?

• They are necessary because as more screen sizes come out websites will have to adjust to new phone screen sizes and new computer sizes. Smashmagazine.com

7. What is SEO, and why should some people be scared about it?

• Constantcontact.com says that Search Engine Optimization is getting your website to show up through online results. People should worry because “if you don’t optimize it correctly, then you risk looking potential customers.”

8. What is dynamic content?

• Dynamic content is “content on a web page that changes based on factors like user data, and user location.” It sounds to me like someone’s For You page on social media. Storyly.com

9. What is a content management system? And what are some examples of one?

• Optimizely.com describes content management system as “a web application or software that manages digital content”

10. What is a YouTube channel? Who might want to start one?