[thelist] RE: content management systems?

[David Kutcher]

Over the past few years of consulting, I've found it more difficult to
*find* a CMS that is more cost-effective to a specific needs than build
a custom CMS.  Which is why I now specialize in building CMS's.  Yes,
there are lots of systems out on the market, but it's doubtful that any
meet the specific needs of your organization.  Is it worth the money to
try to manipulate your organization to match the CMS or to try to
reverse engineer the CMS to meet your needs?

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It's one of the things that my company has turned into a niche business:
creating cost-effective content management systems to meet the needs of
any organization.  We've managed to cut the cost down by creating a
large code library and interface templates that we can modify to suit
the needs of any client, while making it specialized to meet their
individual needs.  Our CMS's are able to be tailored for any company
ranging from Real Estate companies (www.estatecms.com) to general
corporate sites and e-commerce sites.
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Before you decide on a CMS, do a little cost analysis on the product
based on the following criteria:
1. does this CMS exactly meet my needs?
2. does this CMS function in a method that the people that need to use
it will be able to easily understand?
3. how quickly can it be tailored, installed, and integrated?

David Kutcher
www.confluentforms.com