Archive for the ‘CMS’ Category
Factors selecting WCMS for your Enterprise
9March 2010 |
For organizations looking for a WCMS to manage their website, intranet, or portal there are literally over a thousand potential solutions from which to choose. WCMS solutions vary significantly in price, design, functionality, and in many cases, provide far more than just content management capabilities. A WCMS will typically serve as the foundation of an integrated e-Business or e-Information delivery platform. As such, there is more to consider than just how content is managed. The goal of this whitepaper is to provide industry insight that will help organizations to effectively evaluate and differentiate WCMS solutions and ultimately make better informed decisions. Identify Business Drivers The first step is to clearly identify the core business objectives driving your organizations need for a WCMS solution. The key business drivers behind why you need content management will play a significant role in identifying potential WCMS solutions. Get Help from A Content Management Specialist Define Your Base System Requirements In identifying your WCMS solution requirements, you need to include both business requirements and technical requirements. In defining your business requirements, begin by asking the internal stakeholders that will be using the WCMS what they need the system to do. In defining your technical requirements you will need to work with your IT team by making sure that your solution aligns with your organizations IT infrastructure and long-term strategy. Identify Potential Vendors Evaluating WCMS Vendors WCMS vendors vary hugely in price, design and capabilities. We’ve often said that WCMS products are 30% similar and 70% different. They all have the same bullet-point list of features, but it’s how they work that makes the difference between success and failure. Evaluating WCMS Products While WCMS evaluation often focuses on a checklist of features and functionality, this rarely leads to the best selection. In most cases, a typically deployed WCMS solution uses less than 30% of the out-of-box features and functionality available in a WCMS solution. Every organization has unique needs and business processes. As a result, our experience quite often has been that out-of-box features and functionality do not match the client’s individual requirements, thus, custom solutions have to be developed. Technology platform Many organizations have a single coherent IT platform such as Microsoft, Linux or Oracle. If this is the case, it should be specified as a precondition in the evaluation or tender. The same goes for the corporate-wide database standard, and it is reasonable to expect that the WCMS will use this database to store its content repository. WCMS Usability
WCMS Solution Costs When evaluating the cost of a WCMS solution, you need to consider all the costs of deploying and maintaining a CMS solution including the following: *WCMS software licensing This article was posted by RANGIKA PERERA |
Deciding to use open source
4March 2010 |
Open source is about freedom not simply the ideal of freedom, but the commercial reality of freedom. Open source software does not carry licensing or subscription fees. Although the initial attraction of open source software may be the fact that it is free of charge, you are likely to find very quickly that the long-term advantage of open source lies in two other characteristics: The code is accessible. Unlike many commercial products that not only hide their code but also forbid you from modifying it, open source code is visible and you are free to modify it to suit your needs. Open source protects you from being tied to a specific vendor. If you adopt an open source solution, you can partner with the developer of your choice to assist you. If you deploy a system such as Joomla!, which is based on popular and common technologies, you need not dread having to change vendors in the future because finding people who are familiar with the system and have the skills needed to work on it is easy. Taken together, the initial cost advantage plus the long-term benefits of having access to the code and your choice of vendors create a compelling argument in favor of open source. However, you should also consider the disadvantages in the course of making your decision. If your firm has existing software deployed on a proprietary system, you may want to continue with those systems rather than introducing different products or platforms into your business. Support can also be an issue with open source products. If your firm requires a high level of support, you need to select an open source vendor that can offer you an appropriate service-level agreement. Determining whether open source is right for you Although open source provides a welcome alternative to commercial software and it will work for the vast majority of people, it is not necessarily the right answer for everyone. Whether open source is right for you depends upon your situation and your tolerance for business risk. The advantages are: Cost. Open source is cheaper to obtain and studies show that implementation costs can be significantly less than for closed source solutions. Open source can be vendor agnostic. You are not tied to a single vendor and cannot be held hostage by that vendor. Open source presents less risk. Studies consistently show that open source development process produces better code and that many eyes make for more secure applications. Moreover, when problems are detected, open source produces patches at an extremely fast rate. Open source is easier to install, configure, and customize. Open source promises more rapid innovation. This article was posted by RANGIKA PERERA |
The CMS Evaluations
24February 2010 |
Introduction Contain Management Systems (CMS) have become more and more dominant trend of development in today’s co-operate businesses. Content and feature rich websites Content Management Systems (CMS) are the engines that bring your website to life. CMS not only allow you to easily create and edit content but play an increasingly important role in deploying powerful interactive functionality. It is very much important fact that you choose the right CMS in the beginning. Unfortunately changing the web site will going to cost you a lot while it is up and running. There are hundreds of different CMS available, so it can be challenging to find the best solution. CMS are technical, complex applications. As a helping hand for the user as well as to check the growth of each CMS, an evaluation, comparison and awards are been published each year. Its guide you on your quest for the best CMS. The goal of the CMS Intelligence Report is to gather all the pieces and attempt to put them together in a way that reveals the big picture. CMS Evaluations For the 2010 CMS Intelligence Report, we incorporated the findings of seven primary evaluations augmented by several secondary reports. The evaluations can be essentially divided into two categories: popularity and feature evaluations. walter&stone, CMSWire Open Source CMS Market Share Report The 2009 Open Source CMS Market Share Report by walter&stone and CMSWire is an in‐depth analysis of market share and brand strength. It uses a well conceived multivariate academic approach. Like many of the reports we included, it offers a distinct viewpoint; what CMS is the most popular. While not directly evaluating which system is best, most powerful or full featured, we feel this is a good indicator of the quality of a CMS. The report focuses on 20 CMS deemed the top based on an initial analysis. The CMS that made the cut were:
Reference: http://www.cmswire.com/downloads/cms‐market‐share This article was posted by RANGIKA PERERA |
WordCamp Chicago 2010
12February 2010 |
What is it about? WordCamp is an annual conference of skills training for most leading Wordpress user, Developers, designers and anyone else who is interested in learning all about Wordpress. WordCamp chicargo 2010 will be held in June participation of most experts in wordpress for 2 days. For whom? This event will be a fun, relaxing and educational event for everyone who attends, because it has been scheduled for two different tacks of panel. Participant might belong to either user track or developer track. It is your decision to make which track you will most likely spend the most of your time at WordCamp Chicago. User Track: Presentation panel will discus the information useful for the users of the Wordpress, in fact how to extend the performance and fine tune the CMS platform. And how to do such up grates in order to keep the product up to date. Creating simple plug-in, themes & widgets.
Developer Track: This track is intended for advance level web professionals who are involve with developments of Wordpress Plug-ins, API’s, security, core themes, jQuery, AJAX & many more. WordCamp Schedule Saturday, June 05, 2010 at 8:00 AM – to – Sunday, June 06, 2010 at 6:00 PM (CT) Contact Infomation Congress Plaza This article was posted by RANGIKA PERERA |
Joomla
3February 2010 |
What is Joomla? Joomla is a Content management system (CMS).This is a web based application we are using for developing web sites easier .we can freely download from internet.its an open source software.the users who using joomla they no need a good knowledge of coding. Why should my company use joomla? The reason is joomla is user friendly than other Content Management Systems .Its fully open source software and platform independent that means its runs on every operating systems(windows, UNIX,mac, Linux).Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular Web site software available. unfortunately in joomla we can’t extend the core of joomla.But they developing to correct this . For more Information consult joomla expert’s contact Wakensys at 1.773.552.1355 This article was posted by Arshad |
What is FCKeditor?
20January 2010 |
I think to write about FCK editor. I hope this article will be so help full to beginners who using Content Management Systems for example drupal. FCK is a module which can use for implemental text editor for web applications. It succeeds in providing web programmers to produce content management systems that can produce dynamic content very quickly for almost any web development language. FCK is an abbreviation for the author’s name, which is Frederico Caldeira Knabben, a Brazilian developer. FCKEditor is one of the most used advanced text editors on the Internet. The things that make it particularly very impressive are its professional look and its support for multiple languages. Its fully OpenSource software. We can download through internet.its very easy to handle. Contact Wakensys at 773.552.1355 for more information. This article was posted by Arshad |
Consider when you making a Blog comment.
23December 2009 |
Blogging is a new trend of keep in touch with the community around and very nice way of sharing knowledge among them. Having a blog to a web site would keep always visitors up to date. It is important to make blog post every now and then but one other thing we have to count on is community response to the posts that we make. In another words it has to be two way contribution of knowledge. This is where proper commenting function always makes the blog so interacting and gives whole new value to a discussion. Blog comments are lifeblood of a blog, it makes a discussion deeper and more interesting. It is a social aspect that makes blog such a powerful component among the community. As the conversation builds, so will the relationship with your reader and the popularity. When writing comments try to catch the attention of people, make it more an on going conversation make involve not only the author but also the other readers as well. It would be main fact of increasing the traffic to your site. It is really unnecessary to make the text bold to highlight the comment. Almost every blog has a comment functionality, in the comment section you may notice as first entry you required to enter some details in order to make a post. Name, e-mail & web site link, so make sure you are not repeating the same info. for the second time. It will give the impression that you are spamming the comment area for some other links. Most of readers used to comment blogs without a proper understanding about the article, In fact they don’t spend time on reading it, no sense at all, completely divers the whole idea by using a different interpretation. So make sure you have a good understanding about the whole conversation is about. It is not nice to be harsh on others comments that could be there opinions, they might be wrong but pass the massage across in a polite manner without showing that you are the “guru” on the subject. Remember this is a one way of sharing the knowledge. Try to compliment the effort that they have put on writing the articles. This article was posted by RANGIKA PERERA |
What is DotNetNuke?
22December 2009 |
DotNetNuke (DNN) is an open source Portal and Content Management Framework, based on Microsoft’s .NET technology. It is a Content Management System that makes easy to create, deploy and manage websites, intranet, and extranet. The best part about DNN is it is fully customizable. DNN uses pieces of software called modules that can be developed in numerous ways and therefore get the best solution for any website. Also, one does not have to be a technical user as DotNetNuke web content management (WCM) system and application development platform was designed for end-users-everyday users who maintain websites for charitable organizations, non profit groups and so on. Apart from the community edition, DotNetNuke also comes in the professional edition with premium functionality and technical support options. These additional features ensure success for organizations running business critical websites and applications. In the community edition you would find features such as: *Google Analytics Support *Change Audit
Including the above mentioned features, the professional edition contains additional features such as:
*Google Analytics for Marketing Support
DotNetNuke follows a three-tier architecture model with a core framework providing support to the extensible modular structure. Contact Wakensys at 773.552.1355 for more information. This article was posted by Mufthie |
Comprehensive E-learning Software.
21December 2009 |
E-learning is very much popular concept in every corner of the world of education. Seems to be the concept provides a grater solution for many barriers in today’s most educational systems. Generally speaking this is a process of sharing knowledge to a wide range of students with maximum control over their resources. By means of effective e-learning system not only the student benefits but also the educational provider to a great extend. Moodle is one of the main E-learning packages with significant user base of more than 50,000, especially design for online base education and most importantly it is open sources and released under the terms of open sources license. Moodle is an acronym for “Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment”. It is freely available, easily deploy and maintain. Sine it has been written using PHP and SQL type databases (MYSQL) can be further extending functionality using PHP under the same license. And it can be run on windows, MAC and Linux. Moodle infrastructure support many types of plug-ins; CMS Course Management system facilitates with very efficient admin panel to administrate the student enrolments, course registrations and manage the educational recourses in a very flexible and controlled manner. Students who have access privileges to the system may sign in from any geographical location, in fact they have the privilege of review their status, update with lessons and new syllabuses, mean while students could interact live with the other students by using chat module with file sharing. Now days why most of Universities, Collages & institutions are more likely use an e-learning package because of student population. Moodle e-learning package is a full comprehensive solution is not only for the student population but also for the dynamic functional changes which arises in any educational institute. Experts in open source e-learning software & virtual learning environment Moodle, Contact Wakensys at 1.773.552.1355 This article was posted by RANGIKA PERERA |
ABOUT JOOMLA
17December 2009 |
What is JOOMLA? Joomla is a Content management system (CMS). There are some advantages and disadvantages in joomla. Joomla is a user friendly content management system. Normal users also can able to understand the contents of joomla. It’s a open source software. Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular Web site software available Joomla is used all over the world to power Web sites of all shapes and sizes. For example * Corporate Web sites or portals But unfortunately in joomla we can’t extend the core of joomla. But they developing to correct this .There released the new version 1.6.its easy to download. This article was posted by Arshad |
