Web Content Management Systems

Key benefits of a Web CMS

Web content management systems allow you to reduce the management burden, time and costs of managing web sites.

Web CMS solutions provide a wide range of features including Web content and document authoring, Web site analytics, landing page management, memberships, subscriptions, personalisation, social networking, wikis, blogging, polls and forums.

A Web CMS can also manage and repurpose for mobile devices and smart phones. A standard Web browser allows you to update your site from any location in the word without specialist tools or any technical knowledge of HTML.

A Web CMS maintains content and design independently. This allows you to maintain consistent corporate branding and uniformity in your Web site’s appearance, structure and navigation.

Other important benefits of a Web content management system:

• Quickly create new content and update existing content
• Add new features and sections to your Web site easily
• Allow more people to participate in the production of Web site content
• Build new SEO keywords and phrases into your site and make your search campaigns more responsive
• Reduce the cost of ownership of your Web site

More advanced Web content management systems manage workflow, team collaboration, sign off procedures and content version control and provide high availability and scalability.

Typical uses for a Web CMS

Web content management systems

Ektron CMS400.NET

Ektron CMS400.net is an enterprise class Web content management system with powerful but user-friendly content editing features. Ektron CMS400.net enforces Web standards and allows you to build SEO friendly Web sites.

It provides a fully customisable, extensible platform for .NET development. supporting XML forms, content translation and localisation and XML indexing.

Ektron CMS400.net has powerful user defined workflow and content staging features and supports multi-site construction and serving. Ektron CMS400.net is an ideal solution for larger Web sites.

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Joomla

Joomla is a popular open source Web content management system ideal for small and medium sized Web sites.

With its flexible architecture and a large number of available Joomla extensions, modules and themes it does a great job for many business Web sites. mehdiward supports Joomla 1.0 and 1.5.

Drupal

Drupal, another open source product, is fast becoming a popular choice for the magazine and newspaper industry. Drupal has a powerful templating system and is one of the more SEO friendly Web content management systems available.

Drupal is very powerful and flexible. It has great integration capabilities and complies well with accessibility standards. Drupal is very community oriented and very extensible.

Expression engine

Expression Engine is a commercial Web CMS with a powerful template engine suitable for small and medium business Web sites. It has built in mailing lists, a full Wiki module and a photo gallery that is able to do batch processing, rotating, cropping and organising.

Expression Engine has a member database and a multi site manager which is capable of running multiple corporate Web sites and multiple versions of the same content for different mobile devices.

mehdiward - The Web content management specialists

mehdiward has many years experience of recommending and implementing Web content management systems for our clients. We employ a team of Web designers, content management specialists, programmers and search and usability specialists. We deliver content management systems which are not only efficient at managing content but are also optimised for usability and search engines.

For more information or to talk to us without obligation about your potential Web CMS needs please contact mehdiward today.