Opensource CMS Customization
In recent years Internet and its technologies have rapidly expanded to provide users with an extensive User Experience (UX). Tools like Blogs, photo sharing, community and social networking websites are all functionalities which enhance the Internet Experience.
After looking at project requirements, we provide suggestions for an OpenSource CMS that best suits the needs of the client. In depth consultations are held on present support available for a particular CMS. Its capabilities and limitations are discussed in detail before an informed decision is reached.
We have provided OpenSource installation and customization services on a range of websites for private sector, government agency, non profits and universities.
We love working in the OpenSource environment which consists of Linux, Apache, MySql and PHP
Some of the CMS we have worked on include DRUPAL, WordPress, Joomla, Symphony, Plone etc .
DRUPAL
Its easy-to-use, affordable, flexible and powerful system for Website & Portal development. It offers the following features
- Community website applications
- Forums, Blogs, Galleries, File sharing, User Groups, Events, RSS Feeds
- Personalization of content and presentation based on user-defined preferences.
- Role-based permissions to Groups
- Rich Text Editor
- Ability to moderate content
- Extensive Search.
DRUPAL is an ideal platform for websites such as
- Social networking websites
- Medical websites.
- Education websites
- Real Estate website
WordPress
Starting in 2003, WordPress has grown to be the largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world. Today its the most widely used blog and CMS platform across the world with over 25,000 plugins. The main reason for its success is because its quick to implement and is flexible enough to offer high degree of customization as per client requirement. In woo-commerce it offers a versatile and handy plugin to enable websites with ecommerce functionality. We’ve made use of this plugin extensively in the sites we’ve developed.
We offer the following WordPress related services :
- Creating and installing functionalities not offered in WordPress framework.
- Installing and enhancing various in-built plugins/functionalities like Blogs, Archives, Search etc
- Integrating various Plugins and Feeds (example: RDF, RSS and pod casts) to the website
- Integrating with e-commerce plugins like woo-commerce
- Updating the present WordPress installation to latest version
Joomla
Joomla is a free and open source content management system (CMS) for publishing content on the World Wide Web and intranets.
Written in PHP it stores data in a MySQL, MS SQL (since version 2.5), or PostgreSQL (since version 3.0) database.
It has over 4,000 extensions and offers features such as e-commerce support, page caching, RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, news flashes, blogs, polls, search, and support for language internationalization.
It’s an ideal platform for small to medium sized websites.
(http://www.getsymphony.com/)
Its a highly versatile and structural CMS that is creating quite a buzz these days. Our development team has gained valuable experience in creating and customizing websites in Symphony. Our Portfolio section lists some of our recent work on this CMS.
Plone is an Opensource “Enterprise CMS” preferred by Government Agencies as it has high level of in build Security features.
In “Comparison of Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures” Plone has the lowest number vulnerabilities compared to other popular CMS’s. Due to such a stellar security record its a favorite CMS of Government and Non-Governmental Organizations