Content Management

The Solution
Why Content Management?
CMS Implementation Process

Deciding on a content management system (CMS) is the first major step towards automating your business process of managing your content.

At Vertizone, We help you in identifying the right CMS for your organization. We work with you in understanding your requirement. Through discussions, we arrive at the right CMS solution that suit your needs. The most important thing in selecting a CMS is identifying your need not the product. Other questions that need to be answered to help decide the right CMS solution are ...

What is your budget for this initiative?
What is your timeline to roll out?
Do you need a multi-lingual portal?
What is the level of security and rights management you need?
What are your reporting needs?
What is the size of your content?

So far we have implemented Joomla, Drupal, LifeRay and Alfresco based CMS. We have also converted static websites into dynamic CMS. Template based CMS implemenation is our expertise. Forum, Community, News Letter, Audio, Video, Music, Events and Calendar management functionality will be seemlessly built into the CMS.

Myopic view of looking at a website is long gone. A website is not a website anymore. It is a Cotent Managament System (CMS). Like a lot of other technical jargons. this is not a jargon developed to scare you. It makes a lot of sense. After all, your website has web content that needs to be managed. You have a lot of information that will have to be stored, accessed, shared, distributed, collaborated, along with your web content.

In all probability, you have a website and you like it. Lets say you want to add a new page or change an existing page or you thought of a new way of communicatiing on the web. To make this change to your website, you will have to call your web administrator, ask them to make the change and wait for the change to happen. Your money and your expensive time is lost in making a simple change. More over, you don't have control over your web content.

Website is static; CMS is dynamic. If you are convinced and are ready to convert static content to dynamic content, contact us to see what we can do for you. Please read more about CMS here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_management_system

Though we follow a pretty standard Joomla Implementation process, we keep refining it based on the latest updates and happenings out there. This article describes the process we follow while we do CMS Implementation.

We first discuss with the you, the customer, regarding the CMS you are looking for. Through discussions we figure out your "real" CMS need and identify the right product for you. It could be Joomla, Drupal, LifeRay or Alfresco. As of now this is the list of CMS we work with.
We convince you as to why a particular CMS is selected by describing the nuances of each of these CMS. We will also give you examples of how each of these CMS are used.
We then work with you in identifying the design/template that you would like to have for your portal. Vertizone is a member of several template clubs that bring out brand new templates every month. We will be able to show you atleast 10 of the latest templates that are out there and help you select the template.
We will deploy the template on our onlne server and organize the site with sample content after studying what content you have for the portal. Main menu, sub menu, article sections and categories. This will give you a good idea as to how the end result might be.
You will have to provide us with all the content, multi media, etc. and tell us their placement.
To help you clearly define your requirements and make some decisions, we show you options of displaying your content and multi media.
Based on your requirement, we identify all the extensionn and plugins that we will need to develop the portal and install them.
- We upload all your content, configure extensions and plugins.
- Before we upload all the images, we reduce their file sizes to be in the range of 200 to 300 KB. In the process we lose some resolution but our page loads will be quite fast.
- If there are any video files, we suggest you look at hits to the video and decide if you need to go with streaming video hosting.
Towards the end of development, we will need access to your hositng server to deploy the portal.
If you have a hosted server, we will need access to your Control Panel, ftp and MySQL. In case you have a dedicated server we will work with your system administrator to deploy it on the server.