Content Delivery is the third phase in the Content Life Cycle, where a CMS publishes the pages (serves them to website visitors or sends them to print production or other devices in Multi Channel delivery).

Publishing (Delivery)

• Separation? of Delivery Server from Creation/Staging/Testing Servers
• May use different Application Server platform
• Replication?
• Synchronization of a Mirror Site?

Multi Channel Publishing to different devices

• Print
• PDF
• PDAs
• Cell phones

Multi Channel publishing to different audiences

• Handicap accessibility
• Marketing to diiferent groups
• Personalization

Syndication

• RDF and RSS Syndicated News Feeds
• Web Services

The delivery servers are sometimes called production servers, which may cause confusion with the production of content in the first Content Creation phase of the Content Life Cycle.

A delivery server is often a caching server, and it may only provide "static" versions of "Baked" pages that were generated from "dynamic" pages.

If the dynamic pages are served directly they are called "Fried."

Personalization of pages requires that delivery be from dynamic servers.

The other phases of CM are:

• Content Creation
• Content Management Proper?