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Mobility International USA works to empower people with disabilities around the world to achieve their human rights through international exchange and international development. Their new Plone-powered website helps!
Website Services
Website Planning
An effective website is key to any organization's communication strategy. A website without a goal is almost as bad as not having a website at all.
netCorps can assist you in all stages of planning your website. We begin by determining your specific needs -- What is the target audience? What kind of content do you wish to provide? If you have an existing site, how can we best integrate your existing content into a new one? Addressing such questions is crucial.
Website Design and Development
netCorps can help your organization design a new website or upgrade your existing site. We can also assist you in custom programming should your site have needs beyond the basics. In short, we can tailor the site to your specific needs, whatever those may be. We primarily work with the Plone and WordPress content management systems.
Click here to see a list of recent website projects.
Content Management Systems
A Content Management System (CMS) web site is one that allows non-technical users to update the text, images, and documents on a website without having to learn programming. The user creates, updates and manages the content of the web site using a Web browser, such as Internet Explorer, Firefox, or Chrome. Just about any modern browser will do. Users access, edit and upload content changes to their web site using a browser-based online editor and easy to use tools. CMS solutions are very helpful for simplifying web site management and allowing multiple users to contribute, instead of managing all changes through a single webmaster. For a more detailed and well written explanation of CMSs see A Birds Eye View of the Content Management Landscape:
"Nonprofits use CMSs for different reasons. Smaller nonprofits often want to allow non- technical staff to update and manage the content on its website. Larger nonprofits hope to build resource libraries, share content between national and chapter websites, or allow many authors and editors to collaborate on website content. All nonprofits can benefit from CMS features that find and display the right text and images for a page based on rules, automatically remove expired content, show the same content on different sections of the site or even different websites, or allow multiple people to edit and approve website content." - Jeff Herron and Usha Venkatachallam for Idealware
netCorps is dedicated to using Open Source software, software that is free and supported by the general public. Of the many Open Source Content Management Systems there are four major ones; WordPress, Joomla, Drupal and Plone. These four CMSs vary in their features and capabilities ranging from the fairly simple and easy-to-use WordPress, up to the more powerful Plone. All of these CMSs have strong user support and all have the advantages of multi-user editing and site management. For a more detailed comparison please refer to Comparing Open Source Content Management Systems: WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, and Plone .
Plone Content Management System
netCorps offers Plone as a content management solutions for your organization. Good for everything from a simple site where non-technical content management is important to extremely complex sites, Plone is an easy-to-use system that lets you update your website right from forms in your web browser. This allows any number of people in your organization to add and update content on your website without knowing how to write HTML code or coordinate with a dedicated webmaster for day-to-date updates.
What's more, Plone has a strong foundation in open-source and web standards, so it is compatible with a wide range of browsers including Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera and others.
You can read more about the benefits of Plone at the plone.org site. Also, you can click here to find out if "Is Plone for me?"
Click here to see a list of recent website projects built with Plone.
WordPress Content Management System
WordPress, typically used for blogs, can also be used to easily manage reasonably simple websites as well. If you have a website with 5-20 static pages but also want to be able to post news updates, add articles, hook into Facebook, Twitter and/or pull in videos and photos, WordPress may be the tool for you.
WordPress offers a simple administration/editing interface with easy tools for importing images, audio and video or linking to content on other sites (YouTube video, for example).
netCorps offers WordPress CMS development and support services for sites that aren't very graphically complex and do not have a huge amount of static content to manage. WordPress offers excellent blog integration with "static" web content, and is a terrific solution for sites that have frequent news updates and want to engage site visitors through commenting and other interaction.
