Content Management Systems (CMS)

Like any other industry buzzword, the term content management tends to change its meaning depending on who is talking. We see content management, at its essence, as placing content back into the hands of the content owners.

This might mean we help you separate your website content from the online presentation, give you the tools to keep your pages current and efficiently publish new content. For more complex business goals, we can help you look at how information flows though you company and put a workflow in place to ensure consistent, timely and on-message content is output to your website and other online publishing paths.

We don’t try and force projects into a bespoke CMS we developed years ago. We take a look at your business needs and then decide on the most appropriate CMS platform. All our solutions are based on open-source software, so you can be sure they will be around and supported in ten years time. Our CMS solutions are coded in PHP, use MySQL databases.

WordPress
WordPress is a publishing platform with a focus on web standards and usability. It’s also incredibly well supported and rich with 3^rd party plugins. For the right applications, WordPress can be a great way to keep your website content organised and accessible. We design custom templates and are experts in coding WordPress to do exactly what your business needs, from a blog supported static site, to cleanly coded e-commerce application. Think WordPress is just for personal blogs? Well, for a start, this site is built in WordPress!

Joomla!
We are expert in the Joomla! platform. Joomla! is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables development of easy-to-update websites and powerful online applications. Joomla is a very scalable platform, and also benefits from simple in-page editing – our clients get started updating their websites with minimal instruction.

Drupal
Drupal is a CMS and web application platform that allows individuals or communities of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content online. It is also highly configurable, allowing it to be tailored very specifically, and evolve with the precise needs of a business. Think online communities, social networking and rich media web applications.

It all sounds complex, but the bottom line for any of these systems is managing content, managing publishing and providing additional services specific to a website’s audience.