PHPCMS

Consider the Concrete5 (C5) CMS as the basis of your Web Enterprise Content Management Systems (CMSes) such as Joomla or Drupal¹ manage your web. C5 is also a PHP CMS but superior to both. Go/Return to the sample site. (Take a live tour! login there as 'admin' with the password I sent you) A strong point of C5 is the entire site is WYSIWYG editable. If possible please reverse any edits you make. If you need a guided tour call me Hosting, Performance, Development, and Maintenance Sample site currently on residential broadband so performance acceptable but not great.². You will need to have a dedicated Unix server. I currently have a real dedicated host at a server farm that is roughly $30/month but you will probably have a hard time matching that unless you get a virtual one. A high end server in 2008-09 will be upwards of $200/mo but most small businesses or organizations will do fine with hosting that can be gotten for $100/mo or less. You can put different services on their own server (such as mail and database, images) to provide a capability that can serve all but the very highest loads with excellent response times (millions of hits per day). A virtual dedicated host should be OK if you want the low end but I won't work with shared hosting. The Look and Feel of Your Site C5 has two simple themes installed. If you want a custom look and feel developed for your site, you can either hire or graphic artists to work with me for that purpose, give me your specifications, or find some theme or template from the many available and I will apply to create a new C5 theme for you however I am not a graphics artist. E Commerce and other Extensions You may want to either develop custom software or have a package such as Magneto integrated into site. This can be done and in such a manner that visitors to your site will see it as seamless. However the integration of these packages will be superficial and you will still have to maintain their backends seperately. How long and How much? As little as 2 biz days if you have your hosting and other arrangements complete. I'd prefer to keep these jobs to no more than 4 calendar weeks and no more than 80 hours of my time. I can supply ongoing support for the minimum hourly charge which is also the min initial development cost ($400). A month of support is included free! Can I has Flash with this? Yes! As you will see C5 includes Flash integration. I can also use Flash or Flex to build custom extensions or work with your graphic artist to create same.

¹ I've used both in paid work. ² 2008-09-07: I will move to the sample site to the server farm before the end of this month. Note: this service offering has nothing to with the use of this domain or items in the navigation to your left, except of course for my resume portal.