On phpKitchen.com this morning, there's an article that everyone out there looking for a CMS (content management system) should read.

He argues that a CMS and a framework are pretty much the same thing, with only minor differences: A CMS as I understand it is a software product which allows a user to compile a collection of content in various media and provides various tools to sort and manage the content. Examples of CMSs are film listings sites, social network sites, blogs, etc.

A framework is perhaps one step backwards in terms of detail, it's a system of code that acts as the glue to keep your application together. Examples of web applications that have nothing to do with content management might be an inventory control app, a graphical statistics analysis tool, a control panel for server administration - admittedly there is still some crossover.

He continues on to talk about the standards you should measure your potential CMS choice on, and, of course, to get more information than you can handle about content management software, check out OpensourceCMS.com