Yesterday was a big day for Actualize Studio, as we launched our new CMS based site.
Notice that 'techie' buzzword, CMS? Over the past several years, the proliferation of Content
Management Systems has changed the way most organizations deal with their web presence.
Actualize had been touting our CMS expertise, as we had been fortunate enough to have
been exposed to a variety of systems, and we have sought to push CMS solutions to our clients.
Our own site, however, was not built in a CMS. Oops.
So again, yesterday was a big day for Actualize Studio because we didn't just launch our new
site to show off Chris' great design (good work!), but to go live with our first content managed site.
We chose to use Graffiti CMS, for a variety or reasons:
- Ease of use
- Performance
- .Net / MS SQL platform (my area)
I should say "I chose to use Graffiti CMS" because the decision was ultimately mine to make.
It also helped that we had a spare license available, too. There are many factors to consider
when choosing a CMS for your organization, about which I will probably write another post
at some point, but the bottom line for us was we wanted something quick and easy
and yet functional and customizeable.
The point of the post is not to rave about Graffiti, although it is great, but is to show our clients
that we believe in what we do. And I have to say, now that everyone at Actualize has their own
logins and the ability to add and edit content, it has quieted down a lot of complaining... Before,
anytime someone had an idea or edit for the website, they would bug me about it because I
had built the old site and they didn't know how to change anything. Needless to say, as
gracious as I am, the site didn't change...
I hope everyone enjoys our new site. We are also kicking off a new relationship with the
Better Business Bureau this week, and moved to a new data center as well. If the new
location holds strong during the influx of traffic we expect after the initial rush from the
BBB go live, we will be enabling comments on the blog.
Thanks everybody for your support!
Mike Barnard
Development Guru