Building a website from the ground up isn't the only available option. It's possible to use a CMS or web framework to build a website on. We offer the following methods.
The most popular content management system available. Wordpress allows us to easily create websites using a huge range of design themes. Initially a blogging system, Wordpress has grown to allow a much wider range of websites to be developed. It's library has a huge range of functionality on offer, making it possible to create dynamic, user-friendly websites.
Wordpress is open-source, meaning that the source code can be developed and enhanced. It also means that it's entirely free to use.
Joomla is an open-source, MVC-based content management system. Like Wordpress, Joomla is highly popular, and can be installed on a varierty of web servers.
Joomla uses the mySQL database system to provide dynamicity, and a huge range of extensions and functionality to ensure that it caters for all types of websites.
CodeIgniter is a web application framework. Frameworks are similar to CMS's in the sense that they provide functionality libraries, however a framework provides the structure in order to build websites on, whereas CMS's build everything for you.
CodeIgniter provides an incredibly light framework to build websites on, and delivers excellent performance. In addition, there is usually very little configuration when starting to develop a brand new site.
Hailed by many developers as the best web application framework on the market, Ruby on Rails is another open-source technology which is based on the Ruby programming language.
Ruby on Rails using the Model-View-Controller structure, which means that different sections of code are split to allow for easier development and maintenence.
Drupal is an open-source content management system, written in PHP. It's highly popular, being used as a back-end system for roughly 1.5% worldwide.
Drupal has a huge range of core modules on which to build highly-functional websites, including blogging, advanced search, multi-level menu systems, user profiles and RSS capability.
CakePHP is a web application framework, written in PHP. It's concepts are modelled on Ruby on Rails.
The framework is open-source, so it's free to build websites with. CakePHP isn't the most popular framework available, however we can build you a website with it if you wish.
Sharepoint is Microsoft's content management system. It focuses on sharing documents and files over a usable platform.
Sharepoint's functions are various, they include workflow automation, document sharing, and blogging among many others.
Sharepoint is not open-source, licenses are required in order to use the CMS.
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