Who should use a CMS?

A CMS is ideally suited to anyone wanting to have full control over their website or for any business or organisation where there are multiple contributors to a website. A CMS does offer many features of which may make it the best online solution dependent on your requirements.

 

What are the main advantages of a CMS?

• Online System – accessible from anywhere in the world anytime.
• Supports multiple users/contributors without the need for multiple software licenses
• Archiving of website content
• Overall Faster Website Performance & a multitude of features for both website owners & visitors.
• Requires only basic knowledge of computer operation to effectively maintain and contribute to the website; if you can use Microsoft Word you will have no problem using a CMS.

What features does a CMS offer?

Online Visions can build a customized CMS system, to include any number of the following features:

• Complete System – all aspects of your website can be managed in one administration area
• Design Template Based, a custom design template is created & installed within the system ensuring design consistency throughout the entire website.
• Hierarchical membership system with user registration, allowing for multiple administrators, contributors and website members.
• Scalable, Multiple-level menu system
• Simple WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) web page editor, requiring only very basic computer knowledge to successfully add and manage web content.
• Web-Links Management
• Sponsors/Advertising Banner Management
• Content Display Scheduling (eg. add your content & set it to display in one week’s time)
• User Opinion Polls
• Content rating/voting
• Website search engine
• News Articles Management
  
  

Other Available Components (can be fully integrated into the CMS)

• Shopping Cart System
• Email Newsletter sign up, list manager & distribution.
• Events Calendar
• Community Forum/Message Board
• Downloadable Document Manager (for pdf, word documents, mp3 etc.)
• Photo Gallery & Image Manager including photo titles & captions
  
• Components custom-built to the requirements of your business
  

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Contact us to discuss the best content management solution for your business or request a quote

Football Queensland - www.footballqueensland.com.au

Football Queensland required 3 websites for their organisation, the newly formed Queensland State League (www.qldsl.com.au) and a website for the coaching division (www.footballcoachqld.com.au).

 

Their requirements were to all 3 websites to have uniformity in th both user & administrative functionality with a variety of different components to suit their organisation; including:

 

Shopping Cart Events Calendar Photo Gallery

News Management Scrolling news items Alternating lead news items on their homepage

Competitions Sponsors Banners Opinion Polls

League Fixtures Club Directory Player Profiles

 

Online Visions custom built a content management system used throughout all 3 websites and integrated each component in an easily managable online administration area. The Football Queensland staff now effectively manage and have full control over all 3 websites. Further components can be integrated with ease as the online needs of their organisation grows.

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Buy Trade Sell - www.buytradesell.com.au

as seen on TV

Buy Trade Sell is a real estate, business and investment portal built entirely by Online Visions, the requirements were extensive from the ability to manage all content by multiple staff members, agent access to add and manage listings and an in depth geographical regional map search facility.

The solution was to build the website on a content management core system and custom program (using PHP & JavaScript) the real estate management and search facility and combine it with a professional website design and custom designed geographical maps. 

The end result has seen Buy Trade Sell fast becoming one of Australia’s forefront private real estate and business sales websites.

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University of Queensland Medical Society (UQMS) - www.uqms.org

winner of best medical society website in Australia

UQMS required a simple yet effective way for their organization to have multiple contributors to their website without the need for all staff or contributors to the site to work from the one office. 

 

They also required a website that could provide a means of communication through the committee members and students, and showcase their vast array of photographs. 

 

A content management system suited their needs perfectly with the integration of a forum/message board and photo gallery systems.