Content Management Systems

Are you responsible for a web site that:

• Has too many different page designs to count, diluting your corporate standards?
• Requires a webmaster to make changes, acting as a bottleneck for timely updates?
• Has thousands of pages that make redesigns increasingly difficult?
• Might subject you to liability because of accessibility requirements that are not being met?
• Is subject to stringent accessibility requirements
• Creates usability problems because of out of date navigation

Focus on the message, not the technology

With a properly built content management system, you and your staff are no longer at the mercy of the webmaster to respond to a promotion that a competitor launched, post a new job opening or press release, or fix a typo.

Distribute content creation

When only one person is responsible for web content, your site will inevitably fall out of date. Upgrade to a system that allows each content expert to be responsible for their own content on the site, with no web development expertise required.

You can rely on the system to make all of the important decisions for your content managers, forcing the use of the pre-defined templates (while still allowing a certain amount of flexibility). It will resize the images, manage the uploads, add new pages to the navigation, and more...all automatically.

Responsibility can be distributed to two or to thousands of content managers, and extensive security policies will control who can change what. And if you insist, you can review every page before it is published.

Custom design, custom functionality

When we plan and build your website for you, it is not just a nice new design. In addition to the new look, it will add standard functionality that we build into all of our sites, like:

• multi-lingual support
• site-wide search
• password protected content (including full intranet)
• Section 508 accessible site templates and content management interface
• search engine friendly content
• much more...(a more complete list here- PDF)

In addition, we work with you to develop specific customized functionality to meet your needs. For example, in previous implementations, we have built functionality including:

• ajax powered calendar to manage all of the events of a community college
• customized contract management tool for the State of Florida
• fully integrated intranet that shares content with the public site (sorry, you can't see that one)
• online searchable employee operations manual (sorry, this one is on the intranet)
• fully dynamic integration of Google Maps to locate dealers
• heck, we even made a fancy MySpace page to coordinate with a new website (look, no glittery text)

Our experience

ThinkCreative has been involved in web design since 1995, and has focused on content management system implementation since 2001. We have implemented roughly 30 systems over the last few years based on the eZ publish Content Management Framework, and are a certified eZ Systems Integration Partner.

Our range of experience includes small association sites to large state agency sites, with up to 100 content managers and over 10,000 pages of content.

We can manage the development process turn-key for your organization, including architecture, development, design, copywriting, testing, hosting, and maintenance.

So, how do I get started?

If you are intrigued, lets talk about some ideas, budgets, needs, and timeframes. Contact us and we can answer all of your questions about implementing a content management system for your website.