Content Management
A content management system allows the user to update, edit, and remove content from their website using a password-protected online interface. Content management systems generally do not require any knowledge of HTML in order to edit basic information, and some include a full-scale WYSIWYG ("What You See Is What You Get") editor.
webSkillet.com offers:
- Custom-built content management systems, from simple to complex, customized to the specific communication needs of your business or organization
- Seamless integration of third-party web-based services, such as Blogger, Google Calendar, YouTube, and flickr into your website
- Installation and customization of large-scale open-source content management systems like Drupal
Examples
Grassroots Global Justice
The content on this site is drawn almost completely from a database, which allows multiple users to post, edit and comment on four types of items: news items (for basic announcements), calendar items, documents (which allows uploading of files) and web resources (i.e., links to external sites). There is also a system by which any user can create labels to add to items, and the site can be searched by label. The site is also fully bi-lingual (English and Spanish), with all website directions (i.e., menus, "login" messages, etc.) in both languages and with the ability to switch from one language to the other on any page without having to go back to an "English Home" or "Spanish Home" page first (though it is up to each user to provide bilingual content, so not all items are in both languages). Finally, as GGJ is a national alliance of over 60 member organizations, a "Grassroots Newswire" feature on the site collects the latest news from the member organizations' blogs, MySpace pages and websites, to ensure that there is fresh content posted regularly.
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Vermont Workers' Center
Almost all of the content for this site is read from remote (free) content-hosting sites using Google's Ajax Feed API. The main column content is drawn from the Workers' Center's blog using its atom feed. Each entry is truncated, with a "more" link to the full blog entry. This allows VWC staff and leaders to use Google's user-friendly Blogger interface to update the website with news and announcements, including the ability to do rich formatting, upload photos (and video), and paste in other web content.
The site also includes links to the Workers' Center's videos, which are hosted on blip.tv, and a Calendar of Events driven by Google calendar. Because all of these use Google's Ajax API, the work is done by Google's servers (which find and cache the feed) and the viewer's browser (running Javascript), meaning the basic page downloads quickly. Also, it allows most of the dynamic content of the site to be handled by third-party providers (Google and blip.tv) who have highly-developed, user-friendly interfaces.
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