Content Management

A content management system (cms) allows YOU to update your site as you wish. The more often you want to change your site, the easier it should be to modify. It will save you time and bring your site life!

The trick is to find the right content management system for your needs. Ideally, it is a tool with all the features you need, and none that you don't. Some CMS products we use are Wordpress, sNews, CMS Made Simple, and for robust feature-rich sites we are fans of Drupal.

Why choose Drupal?

It's Open Source:

• Supported by a large developer community
• No licensing fees
• Better than a custom-built CMS because:
  • Man-hours required to match quality of Drupal code would be prohibitive
  • Hardened by years of widespread use and developer contributions
  • Extremely secure

The Goods

• Most popular and most powerful open-source CMS
  • huge installed base
  • very large and active development community

• Drupal is a CMS and an effective application framework
  • clean, modifiable code base
  • many high-quality modules available for add-on features
  • keep custom coding to a minimum

• High performance
  • built-in caching
  • infinitely scalable

• SEO friendly right out of the box
  • standards-compliant HTML/CSS
  • capable of custom (HTML) page titles, meta descriptions
  • customizable, friendly URLs
  • permalinks
  • simple Google Analytics integration (without writing or inserting code)

• Extremely well documented
• Mature, going into seventh major release
• Flexible, powerful theming engine separates content completely from presentation
• Easy to install and support, runs on LAMP (Linux, Apache, mySQL, PHP) stack
• Other Drupal features of note:
  
  • Powerful taxonomy system for categorizing content
  • User registration and profiles
  • Role-based permission system
  • RSS feeds
  • Browser-based administration, edit all content (text and images)

High Profile web sites running on Drupal include:

• Sony/BMG, http://myplay.com
• Nokia Research, http://research.nokia.com
• FOX Searchlight Pictures, http://www.foxsearchlight.com
• Fast Company, http://www.fastcompany.com
• Sanyo, http://www.sanyo.com.au
• The Pulitzer Prizes, http://www.pulitzer.org
• Warner Brothers Records, http://www.warnerbrosrecords.com
• Popular Science, http://www.popsci.com
• Virgin Radio, http://www.virginradio999.com
• The Onion, http://www.theonion.com
• Binary Jungle, http://www.binaryjungle.com

Screenshot Examples of Adding Text and Image Content

Below is a screenshot example of how easy it is to add a new Porfolio client to our website.

 And this is a screenshot of the image browser: