{"id":23,"date":"2021-08-10T12:55:03","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T12:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cms.co.uk\/?page_id=23"},"modified":"2021-08-10T12:55:03","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T12:55:03","slug":"online-processing-systems","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.cms.co.uk\/online-processing-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"Online processing systems"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An online CMS differs from an&nbsp;offline system&nbsp;in that templates are employed whenever the user inserts content into a web page for publication. These templates area said to be \u2018on demand\u2019 in that they are applied as per the user\u2019s requirements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>HTML is generated whenever a page is retrieved from the cache or is accessed by a user. In order for this to happen the user has to log onto their CMS via their web browser which then provides this access.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Content is stored in a database which is a mandatory requirement, especially if the user wishes to view, amend or upgrade that content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Template processing takes place as and when requested compared to&nbsp;offline systems&nbsp;which pre-process all of their content and apply their templates beforehand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Examples of online processing systems include&nbsp;Joomla,&nbsp;Drupal,&nbsp;Plone&nbsp;and&nbsp;Mambo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>Advantages of an online processing system<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>One advantage of an online processing CMS is its extensibility which means greater functionality in the form of add-ons such as image galleries, forum, wikis and blogs. This scalability is an important feature of these types of CMS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other advantages include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>The user views content in real-time (published)<\/li><li>The user is only shown relevant content, e.g. content which is out of date is withdrawn once it has reached it\u2019s \u2018sell by date\u2019.<\/li><li>The content can be accessed by multiple authors\/editors in a variety of locations.<\/li><li>Content can be maintained from any location which has internet access.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The downsides to this type of system include a slowing down of performance due to the fact that every time a user views a page, that page is retrieved from the database which slows down the processing speed exponentially.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is an issue for any website owner who is looking to increase the traffic to his\/her site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This system requires a fast connection and an up to date browser especially in regard to content creation. Both of these are improving all the time but performance speeds are quicker on a local computer as used for an offline system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, content can only be created, amended, retrieved or removed via access to the internet. There must be an ongoing connection for site maintenance to take place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An online CMS differs from an&nbsp;offline system&nbsp;in that templates are employed whenever the user inserts content into a web page for publication. These templates area said to be \u2018on demand\u2019 in that they are applied as per the user\u2019s requirements. HTML is generated whenever a page is retrieved from the cache or is accessed by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cms.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cms.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cms.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cms.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cms.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cms.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.cms.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23\/revisions\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cms.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}