Orangebox offers custom Content Management System (CMS) installation, web hosting and maintenance.
We can get your website up and running with a CMS to suit your needs, including a unique template and creative web graphics.
With a content management system or CMS, individuals, organisations and companies are able to manage their website themselves.
What is a Content Management System (CMS)? Dynamic websites with Content Management Systems Joomla! and WordPress Custom Installation Manage E-NEWS and E-SHOTS Publish to an events CALENDAR on your extranet or the web Ecommerce, online shops, shopping cart set up Contribute CMS for updating Static XHTML websites
What is a Content Management System (CMS)?
Content management system software uses database technology to keep track of all the content on your website. As long as you have an internet connection, you can use the CMS to manage content on your web pages.
When you are connected to your website through the CMS, you can update content such as text, photos, music, video, PDF documents and other items. Content stored on your PC can be transferred to the server hosting your website and published through the CMS.
Almost no technical skill is required to use most content management systems. The CMS controls all your content, so that you don't have to.
Open source content management systems such as Joomla!, WordPress and Drupal offer state-of-the-art publishing platforms. These are free for anyone to download and install on a server. Modules and plugins are used to extend the functionality of these CMS.
Orangebox offers custom CMS installation. We provide clients with dynamic websites set up with a CMS that allows them to manage their website content.
Dynamic websites with Content Management Systems
Orangebox installs open source content management systems such as Joomla!, WordPress and Drupal. We also install commercial fully featured off-the-shelf CMS such as ExpressionEngine. These CMS are all used to manage dynamic database driven websites.
Dynamic websites using a CMS are ideal for websites with a lot of content that needs regularly updating. They offer publishing features that are broad, comprehensive and highly flexible.
Dynamic CMS give you the facilities you need to manage users, members, mailing lists, email, forums, photo galleries and more. There are modules and plugins that offer advanced features to extend the functionality of the content management system.
We install and set up and the CMS to suit each individual client's needs and to give them the features they want. A custom template and creative web graphics are provided to give each website a unique look. Flash, sound and video can be included and we offer custom programming to further develop the CMS should this be required. Orangebox provides clients with website maintenance support and a CMS maintenance upgrade service.
For clients with static XHTML websites, Orangebox offers Contribute CMS. We set up the website to use Contribute for content management, provide the software and offer tuition and support. With Contribute installed, publishing content to websites and blogs a straightforward process . . . read more.
All of the website content management systems we set up for our clients are reliable and secure systems, designed to cater for the various web publishing needs of individuals, businesses and organisations.
Joomla! and WordPress Custom Installation
Our Joomla installation service includes a custom template and web graphics to brand the site and make it look unique. We set up the CMS with modules, extensions and plugins that fit the requirements for managing the site. We recommend security extensions are enabled and always include a database backup plugin.
An open source CMS will need a certain amount of monitoring and maintenance. With these systems it is necessary to install security upgrades and patches as they are released. If you don't, your website could be susceptible to security vulnerabilities or performance issues.
We provide technical support and a system update and upgrade service for websites using Joomla and WordPress. By installing upgrades the CMS is kept up-to-date and secure.
Manage E-NEWS and E-SHOTS
Orangebox can provide a content management system dedicated to one purpose, such as sending out e-news or e-shots to your customers. These can be generated and approved online, before sending them out by email to your mailing list. One or more users can login at any time (with their username and password) to view the e-news.
The CMS can have modules and extensions to fit initial requirements and then optional extra features can be added at a later date.
Publish to an events CALENDAR on your extranet or the web
Orangebox can set up event calendars which can be used for listing events, training and other activities. The calendar can be used as an event booking system. Users can login (with their username and password) using the CMS to view the calendar, update and make entries.
Ecommerce, online Shops, Shopping Cart set up
We are able to exploit all the advanced features of the latest versions of open source and off-the-shelf ecommerce software and shopping carts. Orangebox customises and extends the software where necessary, to cater for specialised requirements. We use ecommerce shopping cart software such as Magento and Cubecart. Magento is open source, well supported product and seems to be highly customisable and feature rich. Cubecart is a fully featured ecommerce shopping cart solution used by over a million store owners around the world.
Shopping sites can have thousands of products and customer accounts and use sophisticated models of pricing, discounting, currency, tax and shipping calculation. They can be set up to link to accounting systems.
Contribute CMS for Static XHTML websites
Orangebox produces XHTML websites with exciting page layouts and rich content that use the Contribute CMS to update content after publication.
This is a CMS that works with static websites allowing you to manage site content without upsetting the page layouts. You can have an XHTML website with rich content and be able to update the pages easily with Contribute.
Adobe Contribute is used by authors and contributors for instant web publishing. Business professionals who must communicate with colleagues, customers and partners on a regular basis, can publish up-to-date web and blog content themselves, at any time, without relying on a web designer. All they need to do this, is the Contribute software installed on a computer with an internet connection.
Contribute makes publishing content to websites and blogs a straightforward process without requiring users to learn HTML. Images and FLV content can be included by 'drag and drop' onto the web page.
Browse our web portfolio to view websites produced by Orangebox.