Our development team has been hard at work and we’re pleased to inform you that our new content management system, “Giraffe CMS“  is almost fully complete and ready to use.

Developed internally, our intent was to create a system easy enough for anyone with basic IT skills to use, yet sophisticated enough to deliver some real grunt in terms of capability.

Giraffe CMS provides a wide degree of menu flexibility by allowing variance in both horizontal and vertical menus, as well as the ability to provide sub-menu capability.

The text editor is better than anything else I’ve seen and comes close to the functionality of Word without the pain… (Word 2007 is difficult, isn’t it?)

As you would expect, it provides the option of adding pictures, pdf’s, videos and audios to your site.

It also allows you to decide which pages are shown on your site, and which are hidden.

The other really exciting aspect is that it has a blog component, meaning it delivers both the capability to function as an hierarchical page manager as well as a “most recent post first” editor.

What this means is that you can have a “live” news feed to your home page and whenever you update your blog, it feeds the most recent headlines to your home page. The result is that your site is always live and updated – a feature the major search engines (read Google…) appreciate!

For those keen in the minor details, yes, you can edit page names and titles, too.

Another option is for you to add and edit your own Contact forms as well; or, if you prefer, we can “hard code” your Contact forms to make sure they always work…

If you’ve read our report, “The Best Way to Build a Website” you will know that we prefer individually-designed sites to template-driven sites. Traditionally it’s been difficult to provide a content management system with other than a “straight line” template style site and that’s one of the issues we wanted to address when designing Giraffe CMS.

The result is that we can now offer you the best of both worlds; a custom designed page layout with both variable menus and a content management system.

On the Portfolio page you’ll some early examples of sites built using Giraffe CMS – Centenary Landscaping and Arctic Air were two early examples; watch the Portfolio page as we add more. Both UCG and Power-Comm sites will feature Giraffe CMS.

If you would like to take Giraffe CMS for a test-drive, we’re happy to provide you with access to the demo site, so just contact us and get yourself a temporary username and password.

I’m not going to say anything corny like “Giraffe CMS changes the way websites work” or “Giraffe CMS makes websites easier” but it sure makes building them and adding content less stressful than most other CMS we’re seen and used!