Worried you don’t have the technical skills to build and maintain a website?
Sure it’s easy enough to get someone, whether it is a designer or web developer, to build you your first site, or upgrade one you currently have. But what happens if you need to continually maintain and update it? It can be a costly experience. Therein lies the beauty of content management systems (also known by the acronym CMS).
Today there are hundreds of content management systems available. Some are expensive and costly. Many are free - especially those that adhere to the “open source software” creed. Which one is right for your business? Well there are many factors which determine exactly how you want to approach your online strategy. Is your website simply going to be informational? Is it going to sell products? How large will your site be, how many authors (users/clients) will be contributing to the site?
Content management systems can be a minefield of technical and content issues if you’re not familiar with them. Here at Xivos we can help guide you through that process. We have expert knowledge in most of the larger, more popular, open source content management systems. We can help scope technical and content requirements and suggest the most appropriate content management system for your needs. Then we can design and develop ontop of that CMS, as well as provide ongoing training and maintenance.
Some of the content systems we can help deploy and manage:
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WordPress:
A great platform for simple content websites, easy to update and manage, very search engine friendly. The blogger’s platform of choice.
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Joomla:
A much more extensible CMS framework that can be tailored to suit a wide variety of purposes: from eCommerce to product listing. More extensible modules means more freedom but a more complex development path.
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Drupal:
An extremely robust framework and very open module system means Drupal can provide many enterprise class features.
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CMS Made Simple:
A very easy to use content management system, with low resource requirements. Great for more simple content-driven web sites.
