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Open-Source Platforms

  • Open-source CMS
  • Blogging platforms
  • Joomla
  • Drupal
  • Wordpress
  • Extensions, Modules and Plug-ins
  • Collaborative authoring
  • OSS publishing platforms
  • Open-source templates

For a lot of our clients, open-source just makes sense. If they have limited technical capability or resources, we would recommend taking a look at S8080's easy to use CMS, but if they have an IT department or an in-house 'techie', an open-source CMS or blog could be the perfect publishing platform.

Whatever features you want on your site, the chances are that there's already an extension for it, coupled with a rapid development process, this is what makes Opens Source systems such good value.

There are millions of sites powered by open-source CMS's, some pretty high-profile users too - Yahoo (Wordpress), The Whitehouse (Drupal) and The Gorillaz (Joomla) have all seen the benefit of developing their sites on open-source platforms.

The benefits of an Open Source CMS solution

  • Low-cost
  • Agile and moveable – you are not tied into your web development agency
  • Large (and fast moving) development communities
  • Thousands of 3rd party extensions
  • Proven functionality
  • Fully featured...

Features

  • Fully customisable template design
  • Fully accessible
  • Web standards compliant
  • Tried and tested
  • Multi-platform installations
  • Cross-browser administrator access
  • Content versioning
  • Workflow
  • User access privileges
  • Multi-lingual capabilities

Drupal

  • Developer friendly
  • Powerful content categorisation
  • Highly flexible layout configurations

Joomla

  • Easier to use
  • 4979 extensions (at the time of print!)
  • Highly customisable

Wordpress

  • Well suited to blogging
  • Extremely user friendly
  • Surprisingly versatile
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