Content Management

Do you need a website that is easy to self-maintain and keep up-to-date with news stories, articles, downloads and as many pages as you like?

Perhaps you need to add products to sell online and you need to be able to make changes to the way your website works at any time?

Most of our clients ask to be given the tools they need to self-maintain their website and Five Mile Media are experts in delivering powerful, truly scalable content managed websites.

Read on to find out more or contact us for more information.

Content Management

There has been a wealth of Content Management Systems (CMS) coming on to the market lately, making the task of identifying the best all the more difficult.

We believe that choosing the right CMS starts with being sure that it is easy to use, web standards compliant, scalable, flexible in all feature requirements and well supported.

Ease of Use & Standards Compliance

Good content management systems are easy to use for operators of any skill level. They must also be able to deliver excellent (ideally faultless) support for standards compliance, without the user needing to do anything to ensure that their contributions remain standards compliant.

Scalability

As the web matures it is becoming increasingly important to ensure that websites have the ability to evolve. A good CMS will be capable of evolving with the way you need your website to work for you. It will also need to be able to evolve with the ever-changing Internet technologies. We might never reach a point where software ceases to have a shelf-life, but we can put every effort into ensuring that your content, data and functionality don’t expire quite so easily.

Flexibility

For any website flexibility is the key. There is little point in going to the expense of building a website within a CMS, only to find out that the CMS is unable to be developed to meet your exact requirements. Using a Content Management Framework or a CMS with code access is the key here.

Support

It goes without saying that for our clients support is essential. All software can suffer from blips and the constant need to keep up-to-date. We offer ongoing support for all systems that we build and install.

Content Management and Five Mile Media

It might surprise you to learn that truly powerful content management systems can be delivered without budget-busting costs. It is true that a content managed site will cost more to develop than a static version, but not if you start counting the cost of dynamic features.

Five Mile Media has been keeping a close eye on the CMS market since 2004 and over the past two years we have adopted a number of systems that deliver all of the above along with the following features (amongst many others).

• Robust, secure and built on well supported technologies
• Friendly to Search Engines
• Well featured content workflow and user management
• Framework based or accessible source code
• A well supported and maintained project
• Full multi-lingual functionality

Our primary choice of content management system is the freely available open-source Drupal system. Drupal is the ideal solution for our clients who do not require their system to be tied to the Microsoft .NET (or ASP) platform. For our clients who do require support for .NET technologies we have a range of options and invite you to contact us to discuss these through.