Why do you need a CMS?

A content management system (CMS) is important to successfully run any large scale web site or intranet. Every active web site grows organically over time in page numbers and contents. Soon it becomes hard to find things and updating the site gets complex as well as time consuming. You can lose track of all the pages on the site, and by having all the changes made the updates start piling up. CMS is specifically designed to solve this web site management and scalability problem. A content management system (CMS) supports the creation, management, distribution, publishing, and discovery of web site information. It also provides the ability to manage the structure of the site, the appearance of the published pages, and the navigation provided to the users.

Some of the benefits of using a CMS are:

• greater consistency
• improved site navigation
• increased site flexibility
• support for decentralised authoring
• streamlined authoring process
• faster turnaround time for new pages and changes
• increased security
• reduced duplication of information
• greater capacity for growth
• reduced site maintenance costs
• most importantly, a well developed CMS can help improve your sales, increase user satisfaction and assist in communicating with the public.

The choice of CMS for your web site depends on the kind of web site you have or plan to develop, what features and services you are planning to offer, the number of pages you are anticipating, how many authors and developers will be using the system etc. Based on your requirements Quantumcloud can build a custom CMS for you to provide exactly the kind of features and services you need. Quantumcloud can also work on any existing script or open source CMS and customize it to clients satisfaction.

Some of the popular and robust CMS systems that Quantumcloud has extensively worked with are described below:

Joomla customization and joomla development:

Joomla! is a free, most popular open source content management system written with PHP for publishing content on the world wide web and intranets using a MySQL database. Joomla! includes features such as page caching to improve performance, web indexing, RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, news flashes, blogs, forums, polls, calendars, website searching, and language internationalization. Joomla should be your choice if CMS, if you want a scalable, robust yet easily manageable CMS.

The project site can be found at http://www.joomla.org, and an online demo of Joomla! is available at http://demo.joomla.org/

Quantumcloud has 4 Joomla specialists in the team and has through knowledge of inner workings of Joomla. We can work with Joomla components/modules and recommend such that can better match your needs. If necessary QC team can develop new Joomla modules and components from scratch.

Oscommerce customization and oscommerce development:

osCommerce (for “Open Source Commerce”) is an e-commerce and online store-management software program. It can be used on any web server that has PHP and MySQL installed.

Key features of osCommerce are:

• Unlimited number of products and categories
• Multi-lingual English, German and Spanish by default
• Automatic setup of e-commerce payment systems: Authorize.net, 2Checkout.com, iPayment.de, PayPal.com, PsiGate.com (out of date), SECPay.com, and TrustCommerce.com; Many other add-on ecommerce payment systems, off-line (insecure use of credit card payments) and on-line
• Payment processing
• Multi-currency support
• Support for dynamic images (one image per product)
• Supports physical products as well as product downloads (needs additional security)
• Web-based administration module
• Secure transactions with SSL Secure Sockets Layer support
• Many shipping options including by weight, price, or destination
• Real-time shipping quote integration with UPS, USPS.

The project site can be found at http://www.oscommerce.com/ and demos on http://shops.oscommerce.com/

osCommerce is the choice of open source e-commerce shopping cart for thousands of reputed online shopping web sites on the web. Quantumcloud possesses thorough and core understanding of osCommerce and its various contributions that are available. If you want to start an online shopping venture at a low budget, osCommerce should be your choice.

Custom CMS development:

Sometimes the ready made and open source CMS or sahopping carts are not the right choice when your web site demands for features that are not asvailable in those packaged software. Your web site may need a kind of database design that is radically different from any available out there. In cases like this, it is more convenient and affordable to build your CMS or e-commerce site from scratch then working on any existing system. Custom systems are programmed applications , which can change over time to accommodate an organisation's specific needs. Once the strategic elements of your web site are understood, Quantumcloud works with you to create a technical architecture that best suits your chosen method of maintenance and services the needs of your target audiences. QC has built quite a few custom CMS and online shopping carts over the year for many of our respected clients. They include the following features:

• Managing media releases
• Administering image galleries, online surveys and forms
• Calculator applications
• Banner ad rotator
• Events management
• Posting job vacancies and collecting and archiving resumes
• Site search engines supporting multiple language indexing
• Complete e-commerce solution
• Integretion with any payment gateway