4/03/2019

Today's class topic is comparing frameworks as well as getting an idea of what are frameworks compared to content management systems.

We have a list of tasks to undertake which we should get onto asap due to this practice project being due in a couple weeks. Todd showed us a number of factors to consider when comparing CMS systems to each other, it is important to choose the right CMS for a job and in order to design the users goals.

It is a little unclear if we are comparing just CMS systems or if we are comparing both frameworks to CMS systems at this stage, something to inquire about at the end of class.

The next portion of this lesson pertained to Todd speaking over a slideshow that described the general principles or security in open source web content management systems. Security is something that users of CMS systems can forget about, when you use a system like this you are putting security primarily in the hands of the developers of the system you used. It is important to research into how much a given CMS has invested in security dependant on the type of data your website is handling.

Security vulnerabilities can happen at either the design or the implementation level.

Key vulnerabilities include:

- data manipulation
- accessing confidential data
- phishing
- code execution
- spam

This afternoon half of our team is going to work on the documentation for a while before leaving, ideally we will get this out of the way so we can move onto the development section of this project as we are somewhat in the dark when it comes to using a framework, may be interesting.