Content managed websites : key client benefits from MODx based web design

Content managed websites : key client benefits from MODx based web design

Published : 17/03/08

MODx is a relative new comer in the world of open source website content management systems but with over 230,000 cumulative downloads of its latest release its already making huge strides in the field. It recently won the PACKT most promising newcomer of the year 2007 award.

All Funzig content managed websites are built using MODx as we believe it offers an ideal base for small business websites and provides us with a flexible and extensible framework on which to construct and nuture your web presence.

Key benefits

User friendly

Learn quickly, use easily – 2-4 hours hands on training is usually sufficient to be confident adding and editing content

Search Engine Friendly

• Helps to get your site listed with search engine more quickly and achieve higher results in the Search Engine Results pages.
• META-tags – have individual page specific descriptions built dynamically from content and pick your own keywords for every page for the search engines that still pay attention to this tag.
• Friendly URL’s – easy to read for humans and search spiders alike

Edit content easily

No HTML or other coding is needed; all your content is added via a Word like rich text editor (RTF).

Customised interfaces for different users

MODx can be configured to show different views of the control panel for different users; you see only what you need to see.

Don’t want your admin staff to edit your company “about” page? No problem; MODx lets you give admin rights only to those who need them.

Host members only sections

With MODx you can create password protected private areas of your website that you can control access to. For instance, you may want to collect information about your site visitors to use in marketing campaigns – letting them sign up for exclusive downloads or documents is an ideal way to do this.

Add images easily

No need for “FTP clients” or complicated uploading procedures – add your images quickly and easily from your PC through the built in file browser.

Core features: bespoke options

Add to core components such as site search, contact forms and sitemaps with blogs, news-sections and event listing and booking features.

Dynamically generated menus

Pages appear automatically on menus if you want them to. If you don’t, they won’t.

Limitless pages and sections

Add as many pages and subsections as you need (within hosting package restrictions)

Standards compliancy

MODx generates industry standards compliant websites using the most up to date methods to ensure that your website performs as well as possible across all web browsers.

Accessibilty

MODx allows us to build your site to the level of accessibility that you require. Make sure that your site conforms with the Disability Discrimination Act and meets all relevant guidelines on both manual and automatic tests.

Edit anything anywhere easily

The MODx control panel is accessible virtually anywhere where you have access to the World Wide Web* giving you the freedom to make last minute or time dependant changes to your website wherever you are via Internet Explorer, Firefox or whichever web browser you prefer to use.

(*organisational restrictions beyond our control may be in place i.e. behind a company firewall)

Access levels for different user groups

We can set up different levels of editing access so you can manage your company workflow for your website. For example, you may wish to let your admin staff add or edit pages but not delete them or you may wish that your site administrator see areas of the site that your content editing staff can’t.

Upload media easily

No messing about with FTP programs; all media files can be uploaded without leaving the browser based control panel

Training included

We’ll give you one to one training on your MODx installation and you even get a manual that’s tailor made for your custom website.

Automatic dynamic publishing

Re-use and re-purpose content from anywhere on your site to anywhere on your site. For instance you may want your latest three news headlines to appear automatically on the website homepage from a news archive accessible elsewhere on the site. We can customise your installation to generate your homepage entirely from deeper content if that is what you require. Any changes you make to the page title or summary information are automatically and instantly updated wherever that content is referenced.
MODx also allows you to set publish and unpublish dates so you can prepare content to automatically schedule to become live at critical times even if you can’t be there to oversee it.

No licensing costs

MODx is open source software. This means all you pay for is the way the site looks and feels, the installation and system setup and the development time for customising the system to your requirements. There are no software licensing costs whatsoever unlike commercially built bespoke content management systems.

Because a MODx site puts you in control of your website content you won’t be paying a web developer to do those changes and you get them done when you want them.

12 months support and software updates

Commission a MODx based website from us and we’ll make sure that your website is kept in tip top condition for a year with the latest software updates as they are released by the core development team.

Easy to extend and upgrade

Because MODx is modular your website can be easily extended and upgraded. A stream of new modules and plugins are being developed by the development community. These can be customised and integrated into your site as add-ons without disrupting your current

Industry standard technologies

We obviously would prefer our customers to stay with us, but in the unlikely event that you decide to change web developers, the opens source nature of MODx means that you are free to take the system to another developer. MODx is built upon the industry standard technologies of PHP, MYSQL and AJAX which are all open source software themselves.