At Contact Media we want our customers to be in control of their own websites, and whilst we are happy to host your web presence and maintain it for you, our websites are normally underpinned by a Content Management System, or CMS.

A CMS allows you to add, edit and update content on your website through a web browser, without understanding the first thing about HTML. This means no more calling the web designers to update your contact details! You can write and upload news stories, articles, product pages or anything else, as and when you need to. All you need is a rudimentary understanding of word processing, and you can be your own webmaster.

We write our own bespoke Content Management Systems in PHP and Sql, meaning we can give you exactly what you want, in terms of both layout and functionality. We've coded whole property selling and rentals packages, online registration systems, conference booking systems, e-commerce solutions, and many more, all with a well designed attractive website for the customers, and a perfectly integrated backend CMS system for staff.

If you'd like to know more or have any questions about how a CMS could help your website, follow the 'contact us' link on the right.

As well as our extensive experience creating our own bespoke Content Management Systems (CMS) using PHP, we also work with Open Source Content Management Systems, such as Joomla and Drupal. These 'Web Application Framework' packages are free to use in their basic form, and we can use them as a 'framework' to speed up the production of your website, whilst keeping all the advantages of dynamically updated content.

By using an Open Source CMS you can save time and money, we can pick the best 'off the shelf' modules to suit your website, then with our experience of building our own Content Management Systems we can add new functionality and tweak the modules so they work the way you want them to. This gives you the best of both worlds, the speed and ease of an Open Source package with the customisation of a custom built CMS.

Each project has it's own requirements though, and between our PHP programming and Open Source packages we can find a solution that not only satisfies your criteria but also keeps costs to a minimum.

We have experience with the following Open Source or Commercial off the shelf packages:

• Joomla
• Drupal
• ViArt
• OS Commerce
• Mambo
• VirtueMart
• Zend