Content
Management Systems
The robust and scalable CMS solution that customizes to your needs.
- Customizable robust scalable solution.
- Creative Freedom with your design.
- Intuitive and Flexible CMS interface.
Content
What Exactly Is A CMS?
In simplest terms, a CMS is a software package that facilitates the creation, publishing, distribution, organization and management of online content. As you will see below, most CMS look very similar to word processing software, like Microsoft’s Word.
A CMS not only creates the structure of how information- articles, video, design elements and images- will be presented, it gives all of the tools for populating a website. A CMS assists the web editor by providing tools for the creation of content, the publishing of the content, and, ultimately to archiving and storing the content.
Depending on the client’s needs and staffing, the CMS can be designed for use by a highly technical webmaster or can be so simple and intuitive that even the most technologically challenged editors can use it effectively.
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Management Systems
Develocity is able to work with numerous Content Management Systems, including our own WebModulite CMS.
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| Works well as an ecommerce solutions | |
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| Easily scalable and customizable | |
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| Excellent SEO and online marketing capabilities | |
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| Simple, use-friendly content management | |
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| Good for multi-purpose websites | |
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| Notes | Develocity’s custom CMS | Not ideal for customized sites with complex features | Difficult and expensive to customize and build upon | Complex solutions for all project types |
WordPress
Benefits
- Suitable for simple content informational sites, blogs and standard professional sites.
- Fast to set up sites
- Large community supporting it and updating the code.
- Open source and widely used across the web.
- Good for very simple ecommerce (1-3 products)
Issues
- Not suitable for regular or advanced e-commerce projects, but can integrate with Magento to overcome problem. There is an ecommerce plugin wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-e-commerce/, though the functionality is limited, so it may not be sufficient for the client (depending on the client’s demands)
- Must update it to keep it secure
- Not good for customized sites with complex user generated features (i.e. can’t build Facebook on it)
- Not good for large media files
- Plugs-ins may get broken with updates (so extra maintenance is required for WordPress sites with plugins)
Magento
Benefits
- Open source ecommerce solution
- Has robust number of features with default functionality
- Excellent SEO capabilities
- Supports multiple languages (namely localization)
- Works with variety of payment systems and shipping vendors
Issues
- Bulky, slow, and very resource consuming. Runs very slow on shared hosting and needs to be on at least virtual or dedicated hosting.
- Only the standard feature is free and for the more robust features there is a yearly licensing fee.
- It may not be possible to customize the product and checkout pages with features like select drop-downs. It is recommended that designers pay attention to the way default Magento pages look, by visiting demo.magentocommerce.com/ and include available elements into their website designs. This becomes more essential if the client has a limited budget and only needs standard functionality.
Drupal
Benefits
- Open source and widely used
- For simple Informational sites and corporate sites
- Many modules and extensions which allows the site to be built for any functionality
- Large community of developers supporting and innovating
- Fast to set up
Issues
- Not the most user-friendly content-management-system. Its very complex and any client that asks for it should review it first.
- Is not ideal for ecommerce websites. Allows ecommerce module integration (Ubercart), though a thorough investigation is required to make sure all the client’s needs can be met.
- Forms customization is problematic, default look is recommended (a note to designers).
- The information submitted via the forms is not stored in the admin panel by default, it’s sent to the corresponding admin’s email
- There is a learning curve for developers not familiar with it.
- It has limits in displaying data taken dynamically from other places on the site or from external sources.
Develocity Base: Proprietary CMS
Benefits
- Fast, robust and scalable
- Great for informational websites, complex social network sites, or customized ecommerce sites
- Can handle large numbers of database inquiries at once
- The most user friendly content management system
- Excellent solution for implementing of highly loaded systems (social networks, content sites, informational portals etc.)
Issues
- Custom built so it takes more time to develop.
- Although its built on an open source framework, it is not open source to be used by the public.
- Outside developers aren’t familiar with the back-end and there will be a learning curve
Conclusion
The down-side of all CMS other than ours are the following:
They were developed by third-parties
we have less ability to customize any features that clients wish to function outside of the standard settings
Maintenance can be difficult and more time-consuming
we are not as familiar with these systems and therefore development / troubleshooting / future adjustments take much longer.
We are not bound by plug-ins or third-party
We are not bound by plug-ins or third-party coding in terms of customization; we can customize the CMS in very innovative ways (however custom functions must be built from the ground-up)
It allows for the most scalability moving forward
Our system is a much better solution for online businesses who foresee their sites or their business model changing frequently or significantly over time – this is a better model for new/newer business ventures where clients have decent starting budgets; it allows for the most scalability moving forward.
Requires the use of plug-ins or additional third-parties
Even when customization is possible, this often requires the use of plug-ins or additional third-parties, thus these systems are not optimized for highly-customized online presences.
These systems are limited in terms of customizations
Main downside is that these systems are limited in terms of customizations – these are only good solutions for clients who do not have a lot of money and also want a very straightforward website with basic functions. Any clients who wish to have highly-customized online solutions should go with our system because our system is scalable for usability.
We know all of its quirks
Our team built this system, so we know all of its quirks and are much more nimble in terms of training and troubleshooting.