The past few years have been characterized by enormous growth in the number of web sites. This explosion in quantity has not necessarily been matched by increased quality. It has been estimated that two-thirds of web sites have not been updated since their original launch. Web Site Content Management Systems offer a cost effective solution to broken links and tired pages that are difficult to navigate.
Web sites are now an integral part of an organization's operations and image. No longer relegated to the role of electronic billboards with a static brochure-like approach, sites are used to actively promote companies and products, deliver services and information, manage transactions, and facilitate communications. Changes must occur quickly - daily, hourly, or even minute-by-minute. This need for rapid change, the "ripple effect" changes can have throughout a site, and the sheer size of today's dynamic business sites make it impossible for all revisions to flow through one or two people. Complexity and speed have created the demand for automated ways to remove the IT bottleneck and effectively manage web content.
A Web Site Content Management System allows you to create, publish and manage your web content and control the structure and navigation of your website. It is a platform that solves the stale web site problem by providing a complete web site environment that allows for contribution from varied sources with points of control to ensure quality. The contributors are often individuals without a strong technical background (subject matter experts), so templates are used to create uniform and consistent documents.
Typically a convenience for companies with large technology budgets, IFWORLD's team of programmers and designers wanted to make self-managed web sites a reality for all businesses. Five years ago, we began the process of developing an affordable, reliable CMS that we call CADDIE (Compose, Administer, Design and Distribute Internet Environments). IFWORLD designed CADDIE to provide all the advantages of an enterprise-level content management system.
We recommend that you upgrade to one of the following browsers:
Netscape 6+, Opera 6+, MSIE 6+
In an effort to create a more organized World Wide Web, the W3C has created many new Web layout standards. The key focus of their effort is to provide the best possible interoperability between the different browsing programs available.
In the days of the browser wars between Netscape and Microsoft, many hacks were propagated by the competing companies. However, today these hacks have done more to hurt the Web than to help the battling companies. By downloading and installing one of the programs listed above, the Web will be one step closer to eliminating these hacks and bugs.