Lesson 1 — Introduction to Content Management Systems

The instructor will demonstrate several content management systems, comparing their interfaces and functionality before focusing on TYPO3. Students will observe how CMSs streamline website maintenance compared to static HTML, with emphasis on TYPO3's enterprise-grade features through live interface demonstrations.

Prerequisites and goals

Prerequisites

Theoretical prerequisites

This lesson assumes that you already know the following:

  • The general prerequisites for Stage 1

Practical prerequisites

Before you start this lesson, please have the following things ready:

  • The general prerequisites for Stage 1

Goals

Theoretical goals

By the end of this lesson, you should know the following:

  • What the goals of the training is
  • What will happen today
  • What will happen this week
  • Who the participants are (students and teachers)
  • What the participants’ professional backgrounds are and what they already know about the topics.
  • What (superficially) constitutes a content management system (CMS)

Practical goals

By the end of this lesson, you should have completed the following:

  • Introduced yourself
  • Gotten to know the names of the other participants (students and teachers)
  • Gotten to know what the other participants professional backgrounds are
  • Discussed what a CMS is

Learning resources

Teacher's instructions

Student's instructions