Our aim in business is to enable non-technical people to manage their own technology as much as possible and we’ve been writing web content management systems (CMS) for the web for many years as a result, dating back to 1994 using PERL and flat file databases and moving on to PHP and MySQL in later years (although I still think PERL is the bee’s knees).

In the last couple of years we have been watching the development of open source CMS systems with interest and have generally installed any we came across to see if it was worth us (and certain clients) switching to a new piece of software.  Generally there has always been a problem of some kind:

• a lot of system specific training required
• too user unfriendly
• not flexible enough
• no good for search engine optimisation (seo)
• resource hungry
• too slow
• difficulty in customisation to make one site look very different from another quickly

As a result we have quickly discounted many of the most popular systems out there, until recently until a system we had previously discounted released a new version – wordpress.  We have been testing it behind the scenes for some time to see what, especially, seo results were  (with a few of our own very minor tweaks) and we have been so impressed that we have decided to use it ourselves and setup new clients requiing statically designed sites (i.e. headers etc., do not change on a page by page basis) (such as Jonathan Perks‘ site).

If you would like to see how WordPress can work for you, contact us – we’ll install it free if you host your site with us.