Content Management
What Our Clients Say
It's difficult to describe what working with Rob is like, but let me give it a shot: reliable, flexible, honest, friendly, genuine, hard-working enabler, bend-over-backwards, intelligent, extremely creative, get-it-done team player, always prompt, trustworthy, very valuable, incredibly quick, extremely focused, multi-multitasking, bad ass.
And for those who don't know me, I rarely hand out compliments.
Rob has spoiled me through the years. Not a single person in his industry can come close. I consider it a privilege to have Rob at my side on any project.
Robert Shaw West,
Chairman/CEO
The Republik
Content Management
On the web, content is and always will be king. Engaging content draws visitors to your site, but to keep them coming back, your content must be a living thing. Like old fish, old content keeps customers away in droves.
There are a staggering number of content management solutions on the market today. From massive enterprise-level solutions to featherweight open-source solutions, everyone and their brother has a CMS to sell you. Our approach is a little bit different. Rather than creating a monolithic CMS solution, we have developed a CMS toolkit that allows us to rapidly develop and deploy 100% custom content management solutions.
Why Custom?
We decided to go this route after years of helping clients customize their cumbersome (and often expensive) commercial CMS solutions. We found that many of our clients were stuck with a CMS that they hated, but had to live with due to the massive investment they had made in it. Often, after spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on the software , these poor souls found themselves shelling out thousands more to have consultants from the CMS vendor fly in to actually get the new software into production. To add insult to injury, most of these systems offered little flexibility, forcing the client to either settle for doing things the [insert CMS name here] way, or develop their own custom components. We thought this was absurd. If you're going to have to spend time and money customizing your CMS, why not save 100K and start at that point?
Enter Carbon
Carbon, our PHP application development toolkit, gives us the ability to quickly develop custom content management components. This means that we can efficiently produce CMS solutions to manage your existing data, or create new modules to meet your needs. Often, we find ourselves doing both.
Using Carbon, our developers can build solutions that go beyond what most content management solutions offer. We have used Carbon to create user communities, job posting and application engines, learning management systems, blogs, event calendars, web services, customizable tour itineraries, online comic strip publishing systems, and the list keeps growing.
The power of this approach is the synergy of the components. Carbon's object-oriented design allows all of your components to coordinate and interact. New components can be easily added at any time, so your application can grow with your needs. All Carbon modules are managed within the same easy to use web interface.
Commercial + Open Source CMS Support
While we extol the virtues of our custom solutions, we acknowledge the value that many top-tier CMS solutions provide. Our developers have experience with many of the industry-leading content management systems of today and yesterday. We have provided long-term CMS support to a number of Fortune 500 firms and academic institutions. Thirdparty offers a range of support services, from administration to implementation of new websites into existing CMS instances.