The VCSSO Content Management System (CMS) is a web based system for creating and managing public web content for your department and/or branch. The purpose of using the CMS is to create an user friendly environment for creating professional looking content that does not require a high level of experience in web design and administration. Since the CMS is purely web bases it also does not require you to install any local software athoring tools such as Frontpage or Dreamweaver.

As well as these benefits, the CMS has advanced managment capabilites such as setting start and expiration dates for content and contorlling authoring access to specific parts of your site. Maybe the biggest advantages of all is that it allows you to concentrate on the task at hand, creating content and not getting wrapped up in the technical and graphical design aspect of web authoring.

The VCSSO CMS is built on the open-source project called DotNetNuke. It is built on a Microsoft ASP.NET (VB.NET) platform which is supported by a large community of programmers. We chose an open-source project so that we have the ability to modify the base framework as required.