Content Management
Not only can we design and build you a website (and a darn fine one, at that) we can also build a publishing system that allows you to create, manage, and maintain great content through its entire life cycle. We'll take care of content creation right through to archiving and records management.
Managing content means answering a lot of tough questions: who edits what? Who approves it? What are the legal/privacy rules? What about archiving? Accessibility? Sanity? We can help you answer all these questions, and create a content strategy that meets all your present and future needs. Then we'll build the technical and business systems that allow you to sustain it, and keep your sanity.
The best CMS for you will depend on the scale and specific needs of your project. Over the years, we've worked with many leading content management systems, but we've narrowed it down to three that we recommend most often:
Open Text Web Site Management
Open Text is Canada’s largest software company, and the global leader in Enterprise Content Management. Their Web Site Management tool (formerly RedDot CMS) offers “legendary ease of use” (Gartner). With more than a decade of product history, and more than 3500 successful global installs, it has been a category leader in the Gartner Enterprise Content Management Magic Quadrant longer than many other competitors have been in the market. Open Text Web Site Management provides unparalleled flexibility, easy of use and integration. With the entire range of Open Text products, and their comprehensive integration with Oracle, SAP and Microsoft, there is no other product in the market that provides this level of value to our enterprise customers.
Yellow Pencil is a leading provider of Open Text Web Site Management implementation services in North America, and we work on many of Open Text's flagship accounts. Our services for the City of Edmonton were a featured case study in the new book by Tom Jenkins, Executive Chairman of Open Text, “Managing Content in the Cloud.”
Drupal Open Source Content Management System
For those in need of a more streamlined content management system, or those in want of an open source solution, we are also experts in Drupal CMS. Yellow Pencil has been working with Open Source technologies since the very beginning, way back in the 90s. We've tried out quite a few options over the years, and think that Drupal provides the best overall value and speed to market. Drupal is one of the most widely used CMS technologies on the planet, and boasts a thriving community of supporters. It offers a wide variety of plug-ins and extensions that allow for a totally customized web channel.
Yellow Pencil CMS
Yellow Pencil has been working on developing and building our very own CMS since 1997. Based on the Open Source programming language PHP and the MySQL database, YP-CMS is the foundation of our e-commerce and custom websites for clients with smaller-scale content needs.
The YP-CMS allows customers to build and deploy a complete e-commerce system – seamlessly integrating product information, shopping carts, and PayPal payment systems. Its mobile/smartphone framework automatically detects the type of device visitors are using, and delivers the appropriate interface accordingly. We make it easy for users of any skill level to create, edit, and publish the content they need, no matter what format.
YP-CMS Features:
- Drag and drop site map manager
- Ability to turn any website section into a password-protected members-only area
- E-commerce ready
- built-in search engine optimization and Google Analytics
- Manage multiple websites from a single CMS installation, share content between websites
- Full rich-text editor with word-processor style editing interface
- Full support of Flash, HTML and mobile web interfaces
- Plain language, search engine-friendly URLs
