Content management systems

Kintoweb support a number of different CMS systems, notably Contribute (by Macromedia) and our own tailored bespoke system called KintoMerge

Key Features

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Content management Questions

1. Do you want to buy the software or a service? Some systems are provided as software so that you install on your machines or waiters of development. Other systems are accomodated by the lotisseurs of the system and are consulted above the Internet by the intermediary of a navigator. The last systems can be cheaper, can be rented month in month and usually to require less expertise and of support techniques. The software in addition gives you the complete order and the property. But do you have the expertise of realizer, the hour and the budget to really obtain with the handles with the complex software?

2. Does the system create the static pages of HTML or fact of the pages dynamically? Many satisfies with the data of store of systems of management in a data base and makes pages only when they are necessary by visitors for the site. This can be effective if information very often changes (more than daily) or if the site is strongly personalized but can be ineffective and the result in a site which the users will think is slow. More sophisticated systems hide the pages once than they were created and make only new pages when information changes. Some systems use the hiding mechanisms similar to make pages as soon as new information is written. A great advantage of this approach of edition is that these pages will be found by the search engines which can increase the traffic on your site enormously.

3. Will it support the manners that you want to work? The complex sites are often the responsibility for a whole team people in an organization and the different people can be responsible for various parts of the site. Moreover greater content systems of management will support much contributing and writers and manners that they function together. The course of operation such as approval and collaboration is a sector where more reduced systems are often defective.

4. Will you be able to publish your site on the multiple platforms? More and more your site will have to appear on various platforms such as the Internet on the TV, the devices mobile and the kiosks. Indeed, you can want that the various versions so that Netscape and IE benefit from the last devices. A good content system of management will enable you to create various gauges for each platform but to employ the same contents. You point out that that to make a site suitable with a kiosk or a TV means to change more than simply the gauge.

5. Who employs the system? The great organizations of news employ and publish the contents of the ways very different from small retailers and thus need different functionality. You ensure that the supplier that you choose proved the experiment for the kind of application you propose.

6. Which will be the costs to install your site? Those can change considerably. Some suppliers will require a great payment before top but the package of software in the support and the formation of the year. Others will separate the software content with management from any work with design of which you need. An effective manner to cost the project is to consider the cost whole over one two years period.

7. Which are the costs per annum? Look at what all the continuous expenses cover. While it can seem cheaper to carry out a simple payment you are dependent to need continuous support. Will you have to pay extra? What occurs if you want to change the structure of the site? It is usually apart from the range of content management because you rebuild your site effectively. Take guard of fixed honorary bottoms - you can be relegated to the level low of the support if you do not produce of any income for the supplier.

8. Do you pay the creation or the development of the software? You ensure that the system that you choose is truly an autonomous system and not something which must be strongly ` adapted to the customer requirements ' for each work. See the same tools running several various sites of customer. How much different are they? Can you see how these tools could help you to control your contents?

9. The glance and the feeling or the functionality of your site will be limited in some way? Content management separates the contents from the presentation by the use of the gauges. Some systems provide a restricted system templating which can not be appropriate for your design suggested. See several sites which were produced by using the same system. If they look at very similar it is probable that your site must seem similar too.

10. How the system treat does images? The images and the images are important for the glance and the feeling of all site and should discover to you how you will be able to employ them. Is there a library of the images to which you can employ and add? Does the software give to the coast of the images for you? How much order do you have way in which they are employed in the provision of a page?

11 Are you locked? You make a great engagement. Discover at which easy point it is to move with a supplier or a different system of management content. You ensure that you can re-use all your data and your design outwards starting from the scratch.

12. How much easy are the tools to be used? It is essential! Of how much formation and support your contributing and writers they will need? The current complex sites is a company of commander and will require the sophisticated tools but those should be frank to employ. You will have to balance the facility of use against the flexibility offered to you by the tools.

13. Can you employ your existing data bases? Many organizations have already the information stored in other information processing systems such as Intranets and data bases of product. You can also wish to extract from the data starting from the content system of management and to re-use that in your business for bulletins, booklets and the email. You ensure that the systems that you choose can be easily dependent unit and bring the additional value to your business.

14. Does the system impose restrictions on the way in which the site is accomodated? Where and how your site is accomodated are the important considerations. Are you free to employ Apache, waiters of sequence of Microsoft, to accomodate it yourself, use your ISP existing or these decisions they are taken for you by the content system of management? Recall you to include the full costs of reception in your plans.

15. How your choice of system affect does your choice of company of design? You can already have an agency of design which you like or want to make the internal design. Check that your supplier content with management has experience to work with other originators or can provide the services of industrial design themselves. Pay attention if your company of design never worked with content management before like establishing large contents controlled requests for site but one approach different from small handcrafted of the sites.

16. Will you obtain the advantage of the updates to the system? The content systems of management always evolve/move and you should make sure that the new devices and services form part of the agreement.

17. How the system affect will the manner that you work? It is perhaps of the hardest question but the important majority to often require and be unaware of by the suppliers. If you project large a complex multisection, site of multi-contributing, you will have to think of the people and the processes to maintain useful it and up to date. Your content management tools chosen must support these people and process rather than the opposite; it is not simply about technology. Discuss these exits with your suppliers and discover how they will help you to integrate your new site in your organization