Content Management Systems
What is a CMS?
A CMS or WCMS (Web Content Management System) is a tool for updating and managing your website. Instead of working directly with code, your website can be updated through a simple user interface that anyone with basic web surfing experience can learn to use. A CMS can also improve the user experience of your site's visitors by offering them interactive tools like search, product lookups and e-commerce. It improves the quality of your website because subject matter experts like business owners, marketing professionals and editors have direct control over the website content, and makes updates quicker and less expensive.
What makes our CMS-Based Websites so Great?
The two fundamentals of CMS-based website design are a strong understanding of the CMS' technology profile, and a sympathetic ear for the client's business needs. Our team's multi-disciplinary approach, and vast experience in ergonomics and user interface design give us the edge in delivering websites that can be managed easily and efficiently. Through artful design of intuitive tools we empower our clients to be mange their websites more responsively, and less expensively. And we would be glad to prove it by providing you a demonstration of some of the tools that we've built.
Why do we use Drupal for Most of our Projects?
- Free: up-front and ongoing costs are reduced significantly
- Open Source: You have a legal right to request a copy of your website's codebase. This means that you have the website's "DNA" in your possession.
- Flexible: Drupal's unique architecture and powerful framework make it the most efficient website development platform out of any that we've seen
- Free Add-ons: Need an events calendar, photo gallery, video player and manager? Why pay us to spend days or weeks building it when it's available for free? Drupal has over 6000 contributed modules to enhance your website. Quality varies, but many are of exceptional quality and we take great care in choosing contrib modules that provide an excellent user experience.
- Standards-compliant: Drupal's template engine allows us to meet the highest standards of Search Engine Optimized coding and accessible design for disabled visitors.
Contact us to learn more about our Drupal design services, or request a demonstration to see how Drupal can benefit you.
We can Help you Choose the Right CMS
Sadly, choosing the right CMS platform is a job rarely given the attention it deserves. It is easy to let concerns about the end website requirements overshadow a discussion about the means of achieving them, and who wants to talk about the boring details of software architecture anyways? Our message is that this is important; it's your biggest opportunity to reduce the upfront and ongoing costs of your website program, and better CMS tools often result in improved service for the end users, and higher morale among staff who manage the site. This isn't a talk about boring technical details, it's an in-depth discussion of your needs and vision for the website that allows us to make firm, confident software design recommendations. Contact us to find out how the right CMS can benefit you.