A Content Management System (CMS) is used for managing the content of a website. In the past, when dinosaurs roamed the earth, companies had to hire a web design company to build all the website pages one by one, but today a CMS application is used to manage, search, organize, and publish the content of a website using a secure online dashboard which is available only to the website administrators.

A simple CMS can be used for building a small website. The same content management can be further customized for developing the following types of websites:

• Corporate website
  
• Online Catalog (eCatalog)
  
• Online Portfolio (ePortfolio)
  
• Online Retail Store (eCommerce)
  
• Real Estate application (eRealtor)

Overview

The following are only a few examples of what a content management system can do for you. Please keep in mind that this only the tip of the iceburg! The possibilities what you can do with a content management is unlimited, which is why a whole industry is built around it.

Create, Edit, and Publish Articles on the Fly 

 Using a Content Management System, online content creation and publishing is significantly easier and because the whole system is web-based, more that one user can sign-in from different locations and develop content in a collaborative manner.

It's like a web-based word processor!

  Format text, add images, video, or flash files to your content using the online wysiwyg editor.

Manage your media files

 Upload and manage your digital assets  ( images, videos, flash, pdf, ... ) using the Administration interface.

Organize Content in Sections and Categories 

 Every section can have many categories, every category can hold many articles. Once you have organized the content, the CMS provides different views ( Blog or Tabular ) for you to choose from and display the content.

Or Tag your content as you go

Taging (Folksonomy) is a more organic way of organizing and grouping your content.

Dynamically Configure Navigation Menus and Layouts

When a new website is launched, it is unlikely to get it all right the first time, but using a CMS, the content and navigation menu configuration can be gradually fine-tuned and organized over time to achieve the best results.

Consistent Look & Feel on the Entire Website

The CMS Template Manager, ensures a consistent look & feel throughout the website, so you can focus on the content development and not worry about the page layout and design. That is what we refer to as: Separation of Content from Presentation. In fact, you can change the look and feel of the website in the future, without having to enter the content all over again.

Advertise on your website

Create and Manage Banner ads, and keep track of the page impression results

Dynamics RSS Feeds Everywhere!

Content Management automatically creates RSS feeds for every section or category of the website

Search Engine Optimized by nature

Content Management creates Search Engine Friendly URLs and actual html text links on the fly, therefore your website is mostly Search Engine Optimized by nature. You can improve the SEO further by populating the website with meaningful content and  relevant kewords.

Content Translation

Deliver content in multiple different languages.

Do more with this web application

The Content Management that you receive from us today, has a very modular architecture, therefore by adding more modules and extensions, it can be further specialized into an online portfolio, catalog, retail store, or real estate application.

If you are planning to sign up many registered users and administrators with your website, you can turn it into an Intranet , or even a Social Networking Community for your company.

Technical Information

Our CMS solutions are powered by either Joomla! or Drupal which are both LAMP applications. LAMP means that they use Linux, Apache, MySql, and PHP technologies. Both Joomla! and Drupal are well-known award winning open source applications, used by many small and large organizations and businesses around the world. We recommend the following setup:

• Unix or Linux Hosting
• MySql version 4 or higher
• PHP version 5 or higher
• Apache 1.3 or higher