Struggling with content chaos? Fed up with your clunky CMS? Our Edinburgh team provide robust, streamlined and cost-effective web content management systems, that are a joy to use.
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Content Management Systems
We'll provide guidance on selecting a web Content Management System (CMS) that suits you, or we can work with the platform that you specify. We provide CMS implementations for public-facing websites, extranets and Intranets with custom enhancements to integrate your applications and back-office systems.
Close integration with social media sites, payment gateways and syndicated content is standard fare and a core part of any modern website.
Benefits of Web Content Management Systems
- Full control over your content and navigation
- Keep your site feeling fresh and up-to-date
- Make new content, fast
- Enable your site to grow
- Easily change your site's layout and design
- Keep content consistent in appearance
- Improve your site's navigation
- Reduce duplication of content
- Increase security
- Contribute content from anywhere
- Ensure content editors are fully accountable
- Make content creation a non-technical task
- Define workflows that suit your business
- Repurpose content for use elsewhere in the site
- Share content via RSS
- Integrate with other web applications
- Rapidly develop and deploy your mobile site
- Reduce website maintenance costs
- Embargo content until you're ready to publish
- Polish and tweak your content for SEO (Search Engine Optimisation)
Choosing a CMS
Choosing a CMS can be complicated. CIVIC has a few favourities, but we have worked with the most popular systems at both Enterprise and SME level.
Two of our favourites, Drupal and Content Control scale well and as such are suitable for a range of purposes from small business websites to large, sophisticated implementations. Magento is an extraordinarily powerful e-commerce platform. And for organisations seeking to closely integrate their back office systems with their Intranets and public websites, SharePoint 2010 can be a compelling option.
If you have another CMS in mind there's a good chance we'll have worked with it before. We have undertaken projects involving WordPress, Umbraco, OpenText, Active Edition, Alfresco, Immediacy and WebSphere.
Content Control
Content Control is an open-source content management system and publishing platform offering features like versioning, multi-level caching, scalability, cross-platform and database support.
Content Control is widely used in the Public Sector including sites from the NHS, SQA and sportscotland. As Content Control runs on practically every platform, OS and database. It is one of the most open and portable systems on the market. It allows you to make use of existing infrastructure and skills without the need for new hardware or software. And when you commission a site using Content Control, you will have a say in the ongoing development of the product, and an opportunity to contribute the new features and behaviours that you require.
For more information, visit the Content Control website.
Drupal
Drupal is one of the most widely used open source content management systems on the web. It is a highly configurable platform that benefits from a huge development community and hundreds of plug-in modules that extend the system to do, well, almost anything you can think of. Drupal is a great choice for a cost effective, powerful solution that will easily integrate with other popular web services.
The Whitehouse, The Economist, The Onion and MTV are all great examples of sites running on Drupal.
Edinburgh Content Management Team
Content management is more than just a system. At some point your site may be more than you can cope with, and you'll need some help to manage your content. Our Edinburgh content management team is here to help you produce and commisssion content be it written, rich media or photography.