Page Based CMS

To understand the background for the term, it is important to look back on the history of content management system development and websites. In the beginning, before we had content management systems and database driven websites, you created websites by editing html pages stored in folders in the file system. It was a simple system, and it worked, but it also had a number of problems, the main ones that it was hard to maintain and difficult to edit, and I am not even touching on the issue of when there was a simple mistake hidden in the thousands of lines of text that made everything not function correctly. One of the fundamental traits of a page based CMS is the tree structure where all, or most of the content is stored. Page based CMSs usually excels at handling content that fits nicely with the content tree, and the relatively simple content modeling capabilities. Articles, blog posts and similar content is perfectly suited for a page based CMS.