We started to develop a content management system (CMS) before the term had been coined. We identified the need for editors and non technical staff to be able to update their own website without having to learn HTML. At the time we were unaware of any other agencies working to the same goal. Our first website which was an intranet for Glaxo Wellcome was built using our first iteration of the CMS which we use today. In fact, that was another first, the term intranet had not been coined either!
Since the early days we have continued to research and develop our CMS which is now used by the majority of our clients.
Meet Builder
Builder is an online, server-based content management system, which has been developed to simplify the updating, publishing and management of large web sites by non-technical staff.
The assistance of IT staff is not required once the site has been initially set up, and an ongoing reliance on an web agency is reduced dramatically.
Builder separates content management from design management - hence empowering approved individuals to add content to a site without needing to be concerned with design. This also means that no matter how many different editors are changing content, your site will always look on brand, unified and well designed throughout. Site content is driven from SQL databases, with consistency of design style being guaranteed by the use of customer-specific templates. And, because there is no need to understand or learn HTML, anyone capable of using a web browser or word processor can use Builder. From brocureware sites to full applications like the new
event, attraction and destination based holiday lettings site Staynearby, Builder is the perfect choice of scaleable CMS.
Builder is suitable for Internet, Intranet and Extranet web sites; the only requirement for use is access to the internet. Workstation installation is not required, and Builder is compatible with all major web browsers such as Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox, Safari and Chrome. Because it is platform independent and web based a user can log on from one location, start some work, save it, and then log on somewhere else to resume what they were working on. It will work on PC, Mac and Linux - in fact, anything with a web browser!
Builder provides an ideal working environment for online editors, allowing remote staff to both produce and/or translate content, with guaranteed presentation in the approved brand/corporate identity. Being 100% browser based, Builder offers anytime-anywhere project development. There is no client-side installation. Any XHTML-compliant browser, with any operating system, is all that is required.
Builder supports multiple concurrent language versions of a website and can support many concurrent users and an unlimited number of web pages, thereby allowing for collaborative work on large-scale sites.
Builder uses a meta-language to produce output such as HTML, XML, XHTML, WML, RSS etc, thus producing a site that can be presented across all current and future browers, on all devices and platforms. Builder can also use any current and future web technologies.
