CMS is Content Management System for short. CMS is very generic, and normally it’s always used in web domain, but if you consider a website as a company, CMS to website is as ERP to company. And we may think each elements of an ERP system as a resource. So I do think in a CMS, the most important concept is EVERYTHING IS CONTENT. If you can think in this way, you should find it’s so great to reuse the content types.

This blog entry serial is about how to implement the reuse of Content Types in a CMS system.

1. Overview
2. Identify the content types
3. Define content types
4. Considering the granularity
5. Composite content types
6. Generate the user input interface
7. Presentation

Ning.com是让我惊讶的东西. 不仅仅源于它本身的意图和目的. 更在于和我以前的想法在某种程度上的相似.
以前和iZz的Members和Avenger在讨论CMS的开发的时候, 曾经说过: Everything is Content! 就是CMS的核心.

看了Ning的Content的实现. 感触万千.

Ning apps are nestled between the Ning Core and the Ning Content Store — two tools that make building social applications much easier.

http://developerdocumentation.ning.com/post.php?Post:slug=XN-Content.php