2011, A Year in Development, YPS
Posted on Dec 15, 2011 by Dennis Driscoll in News, Web Design
The Young Professionals Society of Greater Springfield (YPS) helps build a strong community by connecting its members to people, business and issues important to young professionals. They are a fast growing organization with expanding needs. They came to us with a simple request, give us a great looking website that we can update ourselves.
Content Management Systems (CMS) are a great way for organizations or businesses to update their own website content without having to pay a developer/website designer to do it. We installed WordPress as their CMS, which gives YPS the ability to add content quickly and easily.
We redesigned their website from the outdated look they had to a new, fresh and timeless look befitting a young professional organization.
White House website is open for all
Posted on Apr 30, 2010 by Peter Ellis in IT, News, Web Design
I am not sure how much of this is going to be exciting for consumers out there, but this is pretty awesome for web developers. The White House official website (www.whitehouse.gov) is built on an open source platform called Drupal.
Drupal, amoung other open source (another words, “free” code base platforms) such as WordPress and Joomla, is often used for a large-content websites to offer an administrator of that website a user-friendly way to edit/update/create content without any web programing knowledge.
These Content Management Systems (CMS) have years and years of development, along with thousands of developers world wide adding to them to make them better. Like with anything in life there are pros and cons about using an open source CMS, but this is not the time to open up that can of warms.
Anyway, representatives of White House official website made an announcement to release modules of Drupal code they have developed and customized as open source, i.e. are giving them away free.
Imagine your best website developer, the most expansive budget then multiply it times 10 (at least). This is how much time and money the White House has invested into their website, after all the do have to represent the nation on the internet. Now they are making all those custom changes available to other, this is amazing!
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