Results tagged “cms” from Tyler Suchman

I imagine most designers get leads where the prospect needs a professional website, including logo, and some marketing, but doesn't have much of a budget.  Perhaps a grand or two.

The problem with doing a site for a thousand bucks is how much of that gets eaten up in business development and the design discovery process. 

My new partner and I have addressed this market head on with the launch today of Dennison+Wolfe Internet Group.  We are streamlining the process, so that budget-conscious businesses can get professional web services at a fraction of the usual cost.  Their hard-earned money goes into their site, not into getting their business.

I am pleased to announce my latest venture, Emergencity, a community service provider that facilitates hyperlocal communications and emergency management and response.  Check out more at our new site, emergencity.com...

My company just launched a nice little site for Preferred Commercial Painting, Inc., based out of Long Beach.  It's built in Movable Type, which allows them to manage all of their own content. Getting to know Jeff Stephens and the team throughout the process, they are a pleasure to work with, do great work and have a long history of satisfied clients.  So if your 50 unit apartment complex needs a fresh coat of paint, give them a call!

The Drupal community is tasked with, in part, creating visibility, use cases and marketing collateral that make the case for Drupal as a framework for architecting new websites, particularly those that involve community and content management.  Michael F., aka "birdmanx35," took a stab at creating elevator pitches for three distinct types of decision makers, and the community helped evolve it.

Developers
(looking for a flexible platform on which to build their websites)
Drupal is an open source content management system that provides for your needs as a web developer. By using Drupal, you save time that you would otherwise be using to start from scratch- and because Drupal is used by so many people, it includes good APIs that tailor to realistic needs. Its abundant repository of additional features is frequently updated, so instead of maintaining code, you can concentrate on development. Drupal has lots of volunteers on hand who are willing to provide you with the information you need to get the job done. Overall, Drupal is a good choice for today's web developers because it provides a quality solution that can fit efficiently into any number of needs.

Managers
(looking for a low-cost and powerful solution to build their next major project)
Drupal is a completely free, open source content management system that many intelligent companies are using today to provide for their needs. Drupal's many features and add-ons allows it to be used for a variety of website needs; perhaps for marketing, internal communications, informational websites, or for social networking purposes. If a needed feature is not currently available, it has a proven community of developers who can be paid to do the work for you. Drupal's access control system means that it can be easily applied to your organizational structure. Overall, Drupal is a good choice for today's companies of any size because it is free, easy, and incredibly flexible.

Web administrators
(looking for an easy way to deliver their content of any type)
Drupal is an open source content management system that is a viable solution for today's web admins. Drupal's easy user interface and abundant feature list means it takes little effort to get lots done efficiently. Drupal provides for all your content needs, including information, images, podcasts, blogs, video, events and calendars, polls, collaborative work, forums, etc. It's extendable nature allows you to quickly add new content types, functionality improvements, and themes. Drupal's extensive features and capability to manage almost any type of content makes it the best solution for the modern website.

Way too much yellow for my taste, but Amnesty International relaunched their website, using open-source content management system Drupal.  Of particular note, the site employs language translation features, in this case, English, Spanish, French and Arabic. (hat tip Buytaert)

What is Drupal?  "Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website." 

There are a lot of content management systems (or CMS) out there, some commercial, some free.  Drupal is a powerful freely-available open-source CMS, where the "C" could also stand for community, in that it enables many people to log in, post their own media such as blogs and photos, connect as friends and generally build an online community from the bottom up.

While the software is free, it still takes a fair amount of time and/or money to get a website to do just what you want it to.  Hiring a programmer or team or "Drupal House," you might spend anywhere from $3,000 on up to $20,000+, depending on the complexity of the project.

While this personal website is running on Movable Type, which is a really great CMS that is ideal for blogging, you'll see me talk a lot about Drupal, as I have a number of projects in development right now.