Open Source CMS Customization

WordPress CMS

WordPresspowered by PHP and MySQL was initially developed with the intention of building a stylish and well designed personal publishing system. WordPress is an Open Source CMS publishing software which concentrates on both speed and user friendliness. It is licensed under the General Public License (GPL)

This is a highly lucrative feature of WordPress as it means that you are at liberty to make full use of its resourcesabsolutely freefor creating anything from your personal homepage to a full-fledged website for a Fortune 500 Company.

To be brief, WordPress is an Open Source CMS Software which is popular worldwide for it’s amazingly user friendly yet powerful features not only for creating and maintaining blogs, but designing full-fledged websites as well. WordPress is the recipient of many prestigious awards courtesy to its highly impressive performance and popularity:

• Packt Best Open Source CMS Award- 2007
• Packt Best Open Source CMS Award-2009
• In addition to winning the Best Open Source CMS Award, WordPress was declared first runner-up in the Best Open Source PHP CMS category.
• Apart from this impressive list, WordPress went one step ahead and won the prestigious Hall Of Fame Open Source CMS Award.

• Extremely easy to use: It can be easily used by a non-technical person. If you are handy with MS-Word, you can use WordPress with ease to manage, update and edit the contents of your website. It’s as simple as that!!
• Free and Inexpensive: WordPress is an Open source CMS, licensed under the GPL. This means that it is either completely free of cost or would cost you an unbelievably nominal amount.
• Offers Multiple User Authenticity: Being an Open Source CMS, several hundreds of people work on WordPress simultaneously as they each possess individual login IDs. This means that problematic issues are detected and resolved in a jiffy. Now, if that isn’t convenient, then what is?
• Ease of Installation: Like Joomla, WordPress can be installed on the server with utmost ease as it has minimum installation requirements. It also occupies very little storage area.
• Limitless Functionality: Several hundreds of plugins are accessible to extend WordPress functions and so its functionality is almost unlimited.
• Easily accessible: WordPress can easily be accessed online, either from the comforts of your home or even faraway places.
• Boosts and optimizes the search engine results: The dynamic features of WordPresshelp considerably in boosting and maximizing the search results. After using WordPress you can rest assured that your website will climb the page ranking ladder and is more than likely to land in the opening page of Google.

Colan Infotech Ltd. is committed to provide you with excellence. We understand that your time is precious and so we will be more than happy to exploit the full resources of WordPress for literally transforming your website into a visual treat. Alternatively we respect your hard earned money and we’re willing to lend you a hand in building your website yourself. Either way, Colan Infotech’s assistance makes your website visually stunning and eye-appealing. We groom the look and feel of your website to fit in with your firm’s brand like a hand in glove.

Joomla Development

Without any publicity, Joomla has become a rage among the community of web designers/developers, and has swept the web. So much so, that because of its immense popularity Joomla won the Packt Publishing Content Management System Award in the years 2006 and 2007 successively. Joomla meaning ‘all together’ in Swahili, is an open source CMS that is built on the powerful PHP platform. Completely doing justice to its name, Joomla has the powerful and magical tools to transform your website into a dynamic one and a feast for the eyes. Joomla has a definite advantage over several other CMS software available on the web. Despite having powerful tools for managing and publishing content on the World Wide Web and its intranets, yet Joomla has amazingly simple and functional interface that does not depend entirely on one’s coding skills.

As a matter of fact, you can widely use Joomla’s dexterous content management resources that are convenient even for nonprofessionals or beginners. This means that you don’t need to be a technical genius to manage and operate the Joomla applications. Apart from having powerful yet resilient features, Joomla is an open source CMS which proves to be both lucrative and cost effective for you. This means that licensing fees are not required and you only need to pay a nominal amount for the actual developing services.

How you can reap the many benefits of Joomla

• Choice of good vendors/developers: Utilizing Joomla’s ‘free’ open source status, if you decide to design in-house software by exploiting the resources of the Joomla framework, you are not restricted to any third party developing firm. This leaves you free work with the developer or vendor of your preference. Think smart – start using Joomla before any dispute arises with your designing firm.
• Ease of Editing: Joomla makes it possible for you to work comfortably, from either the comforts of your home or from your office, or in fact, from anywhere. The choice is yours. Content may be edited or text and images may be uploaded with the help of any browser or even your iPhone or iPad!
• Economical: Being a ‘free’ Open Source CMS, the software is readily available on the internet free of cost. You do not need to pay the licensing fees. You just pay a nominal amount for the developing services.
• Effortless installation: Joomla can be easily configured and installed on any server which is supported by MySQL and PHP Scripting language.
• User-friendly: Joomla is extremely easy to use. Even a non-technical person having no prior experience is able to edit, manage, or update the content on the website.
• SEO-friendly: Joomla provides numerous URLs that are search-engine friendly. This is one of the reasons for the popularity of Joomla.
• Wealth of extensions: This is yet another good characteristic of Joomla. Extensions provide additional functionality to a website and Joomla has a variety of extensions. Theses extensions can be installed in a Joomla website.

At Colan Infotech, we make a good use of this award-winning tool for developing or maintaining your website. Our designing/developing teams are very well conversant in developing and supporting websites constructed with the Joomla CMS and many other open source technologies.

We are confident that once you start working on Joomla with us at Colan Infotech, you will be completely satisfied and happy with the end result. Apart from that, you’ll become familiar with many other fantastic features of Joomla such as 

Drupal Development

Have you ever come across a powerful Drupal based website? Drupal is yet another vibrant and powerful publishing tool from the gamut of Open Source CMSes. Like its contemporaries Joomla or Word Press, it is highly popular among the online community of developers. Drupal is a flexible and powerful tool for designing complete and robust web based solutions by blending and making alterations – to meet individual client requirements. We can make use of Drupal to assemble almost anything – from personal blogs to enterprise applications. Drupal is supported and used globally by an active community of online designers/developers which also brings about the necessary improvements from time to time.

Why is Drupal “the superior alternative????? Drupal is unmatched in having a lively and vivacious community like no other CMS system. This makes Drupal a highly popular choice in the Content Management System’s market. 

Some of the key benefits of Drupal are:

• Compliant: Drupal makes it possible for you to organize and manage every distinguished feature of your website with ease. Whether you want to modify the content and images or you want to revise the product list, process credit card payments or even make online reservations – Drupal is fully adaptable.
• Consistent: Owing to its open source status, it is very easy to detect errors and bugs and also to fix them simultaneously.
• Easy to use: Whether you want to upload text, graphics, audio or video files, Drupal can do it all instantly with the aid of its powerful tool set. The Drupal CMS system can be easily used to customize your website according to your business needs.
• Interactivity: Online visitors are more attracted to interactive websites such as the ones offering real time updating services. Drupal is full of in-built customized features that can furnish mind-blowing interactivity to your website.
• Cost effective:  Drupal supports maximum features of other commercial CMS technologies. It even helps you in developing multifaceted and intricate websites in a much lesser amount of time than any commercial CMS technologies. Talk about cost-effectiveness!
• SEO friendly: Drupal produces customizable URLs that are both SEO friendly as well as user friendly as it makes use of Apache’s mod-rewrite technology. 
• Ease of maintenance: Anybody having basic word processing skills is capable of managing a Drupal based website. A layman or even a fresher may easily modify the website’s content that is crucial to the effective running of your organization.
• Inexpensive: Drupal is highly efficient CMS software which falls under the General Public License (GPL) category. You heard us right! You don’t need to pay anything as licensing fees. Our highly proficient technical whizzes at Colan Infotech will be happy to assist you in developing a Drupal supported website at a very competitive and nominal rate. Don’t you think that this will give you real value for money?
• Ease of Editing: Drupal is supported by a decentralized editing feature on any browser! This means that you are capable of managing the content of your website from any part of the globe. Very convenient, wouldn’t you say?

At Colan Infotech, our designing and developing teams have an in-depth understanding of the Drupal technology. Being seasoned professionals, they are old hands at developing diverse websites using Drupal – be it small or large websites. They are well conversant in designing attractive e-commerce websites, where interactivity is the operative word.

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