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SFSW recommends three:

1) Wordpress

Best for simplicity for running the website, to get content refreshed takes a few clicks including sophisticated tagging, comments and best of all – plugins to do all sorts of things. Terrifically well supported.

2) Drupal

Superb for content creation, and often used for large programming projects with the CMS acting as a framework. It features a rich API for managing your content in a variety of formats, some of which are customised. It is a full fledged product and the work of an individual. Industrial strength and well featured and supported with a library of themes and plug-ins.

For a website integrated with specialised software we would normally use Drupal.

3) Joomla

A slightly easier CMS for the programmer to write stuff for, the content creation workflow is too hierarchical for me – not streamlined enough. Its templates are sophisiticated. I would choose Joomla for site builds that are more technical integration challenges, less for content creation.

If you want to discuss your CMS option, feel free to drop me an email and we can setup a CMS on your domain in a few minutes.

This entry started life as a Tweet on Twitter.

Using Twitter to generate ideas and content, then exploding them up to an article on a blog is a useful business medium. It has immediacy and followup. A good momentary idea can be exploited and expanded into a useful article or business document. And if you forget it, it just remains as a brief statement.

The “drivers” behind the extraordinary rise of social media include cost (lack of) and traffic jams (avoiding). It is easy to form a party using Facebook, so long as you do not invite a bunch of strangers to your account (fans!).

But when you use it for what it is intended, it does spell the death of another “profession”. It is not just replacing the news media, it is replacing the need for IP distribution. All you need is a willing network.

How are you putting your business online? How are you building contact?

Social media is a revolution. And it is only just begun. It will change the way government works.

Tech News Blog

It has changed the way people work. But beware of carrying your Blackberry on holiday. Out of hour work can lead to inadequate downtime or even none. Is that in the best interests of your company?

NZ Herald article

Maintaining a CMS each day is vital to stay in touch with your customers. Integration with Twitter makes this possible – even in a taxi

Integration of Twitter with your business CMS means you can update your blog (without writing too much), and promote, effective and quick

My business arm is now on Twitter. Connect with sfsw.net for online LAMP and website development. Tweet me.