Emarketing for HQs

[Philip Weiss]

As most of our work is with the HQs of international companies, we discuss here the challenge they face and how to deal with multilingual pan-European campaigning on the internet.

[Philip Weiss]

A simple question to those who have first hand experience of this. Any suggestions for the best CMS (content management system) for a website in several languages (especially when it get's over 15-20)? We have been trying different platforms (especially open source ones) but would like to get feedback on this.

[Fred Pistoor]

Hi, An international company I know works with Fur CMS, maybe it's worth to have a look at this? http://www.furcms.nl/

Regards
Fred Pistoor
Sales Manager at Compete Automatisering
www.compete.nl

[Tsc Tempest]

@ Phillip Weiss:
Best CMS is a relative term, it would depend on your overall needs from the CMS.

If you're willing to put in some development/research work, perhaps you could contact the people a Microcyte.co.uk as they currently have a CMS which is elegant, simple and extremely cost effective (US$10 if I remember correctly). Perhaps you could swing a deal on the multi-lingual development in return for using/modding their CMS for your application.

[Mira Bangel]

Tsc Tempest said:

If you're willing to put in some development/research work, perhaps you could contact the people a Microcyte.co.uk as they currently have a CMS which is elegant, simple and extremely cost effective (US$10 if I remember correctly). Perhaps you could swing a deal on the multi-lingual development in return for using/modding their CMS for your application.

@ Tsc Tempest:

Do you have experiences with this CMS?
In what way do you think is it better than free open source software like for example Joomla & Drupal?

Best wishes,

Mira

[Tsc Tempest]

Hi Mira,

both Drupal and Joomla, while extremely powerful and versatile applications, also have a quite steep learning curves. This is not neccessarily a bad thing, however as a sole proprietor, I do not have the luxury, time or client base to justify the time required to become adequately comfortable with them, their setup, management and maintenace.

Similarly, I do not have the where-with-all to outlsuorce site management. With these things in mind, I look long and hard for a "free" application that I could learn quickly and implement on my own. Funnily enough, I came across Microcyte, at the time I got it for the early adoptor's price of $1.00 seemed like a bargain to me. Later they increased the price.

It's small, it's simple, it's php-based, it allows me to markup any template or webpage, and update content, live, online, and from any coffeeshop, bar or office space that allows online access. It doesn't do a lot of what the other CMS' offer, but it is good at what it does. That's why I suggested it.

Cheers.




Mira Bangel said:

Tsc Tempest said:

If you're willing to put in some development/research work, perhaps you could contact the people a Microcyte.co.uk as they currently have a CMS which is elegant, simple and extremely cost effective (US$10 if I remember correctly). Perhaps you could swing a deal on the multi-lingual development in return for using/modding their CMS for your application.

@ Tsc Tempest:

Do you have experiences with this CMS?
In what way do you think is it better than free open source software like for example Joomla & Drupal?

Best wishes,

Mira