The page that went live too soon
A volunteer at the made-up Eastfield Film Club types the new film night page. She presses Save, and the page is on the website at once. It says "Free popcorn for evryone" and shows last month's date.
Nobody checked it. A good system keeps content tidy and safe, and it asks for a check before anything goes public.
By the end of this lesson
Note
I can describe how a content management system keeps an app's content tidy, checked and safe.
Key words
| Word | What it means | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Content management system | software to write, store, check and publish content | CMS |
| Template | a ready-made page layout you fill in | |
| Metadata | facts about a file, such as its author and date | |
| Permission | a right to do one job, such as publish | |
| Publish | to make content visible to its audience | |
| Optimise | to make a file smaller and faster without ruining it |
The cells students fill in are left blank in this preview.
Starter: what you already know
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Starter: what you already know
4 questionsYour answers are marked here and are not kept. A college account keeps every student’s marks.
A CMS keeps content in order
A content management system, or CMS, is software that stores your text, pictures and files and lets many people work on them. It offers an editor, a library for media, templates and a list of who may do what.
Each person gets permissions. A writer may write. Only an editor may publish. This stops one mistake going straight to the public.
Try it: publish only after a check
<h2>Edit a page</h2>
<label for="title">Page title</label>
<input id="title" value="Film night">
<label for="note">Text</label>
<textarea id="note" rows="3">Free popcorn for evryone.</textarea>
<p><input id="ok" type="checkbox"> <label for="ok">A second person has checked it</label></p>
<button id="pub" disabled>Publish</button>
<p id="msg" role="status">Not published yet.</p>
<!-- Fix the spelling, tick the box, then press Publish. -->
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Check
3 questionsYour answers are marked here and are not kept. A college account keeps every student’s marks.