Archives for "CMS"
CMS’s: the good, the bad and the ugly.
For the last few years now everyone who wants a new site or a site redesign, often wants to have some kind of content management system in the backend. Mostly the client wants to be able to update content whenever they want and not have to wait or pay for a developer/company to do this for them. The client from what I have seen never has a plan set up for this updating. Usually they will do themselves, which is fine if they where a marketer, and web developer all in one. I believe to run a website and add content you must possess both talents when it comes to a business. Most clients do not or will not spend the money for someone who is proficient in both. So when this happens, sites go to crap.
Although adding a CMS to a site is not the most involved process, but it will increase a clients cost but usually the convienence and money saved in the long run, out ways the price. Continue Reading
Kentico’s support, Where are you???
I know in a previous post, I mentioned how active Kentico is in trying to help you out with issues, even though it may take a day or so. I am going to over react a bit and say I take all that back.
I understand the need to charge for support at some points but I also believe that you should only charge support if you have a great deal of knowledge base, FAQ’s, and troubleshooting information easily found at the tips of someones finger tips. This is not saying that Kentico doesn’t have a bunch of documentation, but the quality of the support documents is low and to search for anything specific is a nightmare on Kentico’s Development site. Continue Reading
Project Bubble, will it ever burst?
Project Bubble
If you don’t already know, Project Bubble i,s in my humble opinion the best project management application for free. Project Bubble is easy to use and understand and the design is open making it not as much for a task for data entry. You can add multiple projects, clients, tasks, invoices and even estimates. So far Project Bubble is in its infanticy but has made some major strides since its official launch late last year. The creator Stu Green has made the development of the application not just from his own ideas. Stu almost daily polls his audience to see whats on their mind and what they want to see Project Bubble become. Stu takes the users wants and executes updates with hardly any hiccups. So far I can only use Project Bubble as an invoicing and estimate application. I really want to start using this as an all in one project management tool.
I could use this as a main hub between salesman, clients, developers, and myself. Some things are holding me back at this point. Continue Reading
Best CMS’s in 2009
As a Web Engineer for the last 3 years and now as a Web Architect, I have been through a lot of different CMS’s (Content Management Systems). Mainly I like to stick to a couple key CMS’s but now and again I have to stray based on clients needs, budget, and deadline. I figured I would do a brief summary on the CMS’s I have implemented and think are some of the best based on programming language (I’m only doing .net, and php). Hopefully I will share some of the advantages and disadvantages each has.
.NET CMS’s
Kentico
Kentico in my opinion is one of the best CMS’s in 2009. Kentico is well built, updated regularly and can offer many solutions for little modification. Kentico has great out of the box features like its Blog, Calendar, Newletters, Event Calendar, Forums, and easy to create forms. The year of 2009 has surely pushed Kentico’s platform into the social marketing age. With new upgrades to Kentico several new features have been developed to add more social networking aspects. Polling, Groups, Friends and Private Messaging are all contained within Kentico.
Kentico has its weaknesses though. The challenge is to understand how Kentico works, and this can take a while digging around .NET code. They do have a large collection of documentation but it seems that they rushed it and they do not give the detailed information that you would like. The cost of Kentico is also a downfall. I understand the need for cost with an application this size but I think they would be able to make even more money if they put this software in the Open Source market. Continue Reading