CMS
Software Solution
Challenge
Web site maintenance requires too much time and expense
Many web sites suffer from overly complicated and laborious processes for making simple changes. These sites either quickly fall out of date or require expensive develop staffs to maintain them.
Solution
SmileMaker CMS: Carbon Five creates a simpler way
A content management system (CMS) enables nontechnical users to easily update web site content. It provides a reliable and easy-to-use an production workflow that complements a company's existing processes and applications.
Off-the-shelf content management systems tend to be very expensive and have many unneccessary features. Many open source products are unreliable and hard to use — and the cost of integration can be prohibitive. Carbon Five has integrated many of these solutions and written a few custom ones along the way. Unsatisfied with what we found out there, we decided to build our own.
Carbon Five's SmileMaker CMS provides a simple but flexible model for building and managing web sites. Built from a stable platform of standard technologies, it features:
- One-click publishing
- Role-based workflow and security
- File-asset versioning and management in the same workflow as content
- JSP 2.0 development model
- Simple embedding in existing web sites
- Flexibility — works with any database
Value
Happily do more with less
Using SmileMaker, an HTML programmer can build a complicated site in weeks — with no involvement from software developers. Once built, the site can be maintained by nontechnical editors. By lowering the barrier to entry, SmileMaker reduces costs and increases efficiency for web site build-out and maintenance.
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“I can't thank you guys enough for what you've done to get us to this point, your flexibilty and commitment to detail combined with a great and easy-to-use tool have made this site what it is, and we wouldn't have been able to do it without you!”
—Managing Producer, National Geographic