Content Management
Simply put, a content management system enables non-technical editors to manage the content of a website, intranet or application. A good CMS goes beyond this basic definition and:
- provides a streamlined, easy to understand way of creating and editing content
- models the underlying business information (e.g. events should have a start date, end date, venue, price, etc)
- allows editors to work in draft mode before publishing to the live website
- provides a flexible security and permissions model so that users have access to only the areas they need
- provides time saving features, e.g. to automatically scale images ready for use on the web page.
The right CMS for you
We can help you pick the best solution for your organisation, whether this is an open source CMS, a custom built solution or a combination of the two.
We have worked with a wide range of systems over the years, and will bring this experience and expertise to your project. All of the CMSs that we work with have:
- plugins: you get the benefit of ready written add-ons such as image galleries, search and blog-style comments
- support custom development: we can customise the CMS to support any feature enhancements you need
- an active user community: lots of developers around the world have experience in these systems, and share solutions and ideas that help us complete your project quicker.
Here are some of our current favourites:
Django provides a mature, efficient and elegant web application framework, with many available plugins, including a great CMS: Django-CMS .
OpenCms is a mature, open source, fully-featured CMS that runs on the Java platform. It is a great fit for enterprises, supporting sites with many thousands of pages, many hundreds of users in many languages.
Umbraco is a Microsoft .NET based Open Source CMS. If you need CMS on the Microsoft stack, Umbraco provides a robust and flexible solution.
Whatever your requirements, contact us to discuss how we can help you get the right CMS solution.