Web design Cornwall | Peninsula Design | Content Management Systems (CMS)

A blue star fish on some sand Should you require the freedom to make updates, amends and additions to your web site's content (images, text, multimedia) on a regular basis, a CMS or "Content Managment System" is the ideal, cost-effective option.

What's a CMS now?

The following experpt from Wikipedia best explains the concept of a Content Management System:

A content management system (CMS) is a computer software system used to assist its users in the process of content management. CMS facilitates the organization, control, and publication of a large body of documents and other content, such as images and multimedia resources. A CMS often facilitates the collaborative creation of documents. A web content management system is a content management system with additional features to ease the tasks required to publish web content to web sites.

Web content management systems are often used for storing, controlling, versioning, and publishing industry-specific documentation such as news articles, operators' manuals, technical manuals, sales guides, and marketing brochures. A content management system may support the following features:

Import and creation of documents and multimedia material.
Identification of all key users and their content management roles.
The ability to assign roles and responsibilities to different content categories or types.
Definition of the content workflow tasks, often coupled with event messaging so that content managers are alerted to changes in content.
The ability to track and manage multiple versions of a single instance of content.
The ability to publish the content to a repository to support access to the content. Increasingly, the repository is an inherent part of the system, and incorporates enterprise search and retrieval.
Some content management systems allow the textual aspect of content to be separated to some extent from formatting. For example the CMS may automatically set default colour, fonts, or layout.

We have two flavours of CMS to suit a variety of requirements and both offer all of the functionality listed above.

CMS Made Simple

CMS Made Simple logo If you need a low cost, fast and outstandingly easy to use solution then CMS Made Simple is for you. This CMS is ideally suited to websites where the primary requirement set is to manage text and images rather than run feature-rich applications such as news, gallery, calendar, user login and e-commerce (although some expansion is possible).

The following site from our portfolio runs on CMS Made Simple: http://www.watsugoa.com

Sites that run CMS Made Simple start from £800 but typically cost around £1200.

Joomla!

Joomla! logo If you are looking for a fully fledged and powerful CMS, we offer the award-winning industry leader: Joomla!

Joomla! is highly configurable and modular in nature allowing for unlimited expansion. Listed below are just some categories of the hundreds of available extensions we can install and configure on top of the CMS core:

Image and multimedia galleries
E-commerce and shopping cart engines
Forums and chat software
Calendars
Blogging software
Directory services
Email newsletters
Data collection and reporting tools
Banner advertising systems

The following site from our portfolio runs on Joomla! (from April 07) : http://www.acornartscentre.co.uk/

Sites built on Joomla! start from £2500.

Please just shout and we'll be happy to set up a free demonstration account for either CMS.

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