TGS Content Management is a free Open Source Web Content Management System (CMS) written in PHP. TGS Content Management is the ideal system for providing small to midsize community websites, intranet portals, corporate portals and many more. It is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.

TGS Content Management is easy to install, simple to manage and reliable. TGS Content Management is developed for a risers and experienced users in Web-Development. TGS Content Management is in constant development and by new features is always extended and improved.

What is TGS Content Management?

TGS Content Management is a small to midsize Content Management Framework providing you all what you need to start with your own professional website. Out-of-the-Box operation with a complete set of standard modules and the new TGS Content Management Template Engine, which brings two default Templates to you.

For editors TGS Content Management is a intuitive tool, which can handled by everyone without you have to visit a special curse about it. Just a few clicks with the mouse and you can write your first own content. And after that your new content will automatically shown on the predefined section of your website. For helping you to share authoring and collaboration at your website TGS Content Management brings an internal messaging system to you. With the help of this system it is easy to communicate with other authors, editors, moderators or administrators at your system.

Web developers will appreciate the complete separation of design and content. TGS Content Management is a database-driven Content Management System and by using the TGS Template Engine the design and content are absolutely separated. The development of your own template, or the modification of an existing one is very easy and you only have some knowledge in programming with HTML-Code.

What is a Content Management System?

A Content Management System (CMS) is a software system used for content management. Content management systems are deployed primarily for interactive use by a potentially large number of contributors.
The content managed includes computer files, image media, audio files, electronic documents and web content. The idea behind a CMS is to make these files available inter-office, as well as over the web. A Content Management System would most often be used as archival as well. Many companies use a CMS to store files in a non-proprietary form. Companies use a CMS to share files with ease, as most systems use server based software, even further broadening file availability. As shown below, many Content Management Systems include a feature for Web Content, and some have a feature for a "workflow process."

A web content management system is a content management system with additional features to ease the tasks required to publish web content to web sites.

Web content management systems are often used for storing, controlling, versioning, and publishing industry-specific documentation such as news articles, operators' manuals, technical manuals, sales guides, and marketing brochures. A content management system may support the following features:

• Import and creation of documents and multimedia material
• Identification of all key users and their content management roles
• The ability to assign roles and responsibilities to different content categories or types.
• Definition of the content workflow tasks, often coupled with event messaging so that content managers are alerted to changes in content.
• The ability to track and manage multiple versions of a single instance of content.
• The ability to publish the content to a repository to support access to the content. Increasingly, the repository is an inherent part of the system, and incorporates enterprise search and retrieval.
• Some content management systems allow the textual aspect of content to be separated to some extent from formatting. For example the CMS may automatically set default color, fonts, or layout.

Based on Wikipedia.com article.

What kind of License TGS Content Management use?

TGS Content Management is licensed under the GNU General Public License. Since the version 0.2.0 (January 2007) the GNU/GPL v2 was used and with release the 0.2.5r3 (July 2007) TGS Content Management switched to GNU/GPL v3.

Benefits:

• No license cost
• 100% of your budget serves to customize your system
• Full flexibility in modifying the code

Concerns:

• No warranty from copyright owner - ask your service provider instead

The License in full:
www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl.html

Frequently Asked questions:
www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl-faq.html

Where I can find more information about TGS Content Management?

TGS Content Management is listed at SourceForge.net, HotScripts.com and Origo.ethz.ch. Maybe you will find there some user comments or votings about TGS Content Management.