Also Consulting - Easy Content Management
We specialise in the development of easy Content Management Systems (CMS). We've developed two standard
CMS.
The first developed in .NET2.0, storing all the data in XML. Storing the data as XML removed the needs
for expensive database hosting costs. You can download this system
for free. Take a look at these sites, they're developed using the XML CMS, it was only minor changes to the
CSS (cascading style sheet) file to give each site the different look and feel:
The second system is based on SQL Server 2005. All data is stored and managed in the database. We used
the CMS for the Amoy UK website:
Screen shots of each content management application (CMA) are available to view. Hide this text window
and then choose the images you want to look at. Or you can take a closer look at each system through the
following links: Free XML based CMS,
SQL 2005 based CMS.
There's also a third, rather unconventional system that this site uses. The idea of this
website is to showcase a new easy way to develop a website and
manage its content. The system is built on ASP.NET2.0, with VB.NET.
There is no database or central repository for content. Most small businesses
find the concept of managing content separately to pages very difficult to understand.
So, in this system, we edit the content directly in the page.
To edit the content, we use Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition.
It is very easy to edit the content of each page using a local copy of the website.
Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition allows us to connect to the
web server and upload the new version of the site (and/or pages) once the changes
have been made.
The pictures on the site are of nothing in particular. They were taken on
a short break to Dubai in the autumn of 2006. Most of the pictures were taken
from the rooftop of the Shangri-La Hotel. I've only used these as they were
sat on my laptop doing nothing and I thought they looked quite good with the black
background of the site.