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Bartoli Technology specializes in delivering professional websites based on commercial and open source content management systems (CMS).

Most projects will benefit immediately by using an open source CMS, which provides a powerful and fully featured framework for building your website.

A quick way to demonstrate these benefits is to offer a simple comparison to using a standard web developer:

  Content Management System
 Web Developer
Ease Publish content yourself* from anywhere with an online editor that looks and works like Word. Pay web developer per update.
Speed Immediate. Your new content appears online as soon as you hit Save. You can even select to have your new content appear at a later specified date and time. Unknown time delay while developer codes and uploads your new content. Difficult to deploy "scheduled" content releases.
Value Post the same content to multiple areas of the website. Can automate categorization, such as having all new Press Releases also show up under Latest News. Each appearance of your new content may need to be separately created.
Navigation New menu items, advertising, and other features are easily adjusted through an administrative console. Changing a menu or advertisement may require every page of your website to be manually modified.
Functionality Contact forms, Search, Media players, Polls, Photo galleries included. All extra.
User Tools Accounts and ability to publish features only for verified users. Social networking features. Content subscribers are automatically notified of new content via e-mail, RSS feeds, or Twitter. Extra, and not automated.
Cost Free. Already coded, tested, and open source. Everything above is included. You pay for integration, customization, and graphic design. Expensive to deploy and maintain anything but simple websites. High on-going cost for any changes.
* Bartoli Technology can help you maintain all of the content of your website.

The Right Solution

administrative console
"Content" is just about anything: articles,
images, videos, products, and more.
From the web's wider public adoption in the mid-90's until relatively recently, most websites have been created essentially by hand, one page at a time by a web developer or a team of many web developers. Today, most professional websites are served by either a commercially available, custom, or open source content management system.

A content management system (CMS) is software that provides a framework and online interface to enable easy publishing, organizing, and maintaining content. Rather than building your website with individual HTML files, forms, and images, the CMS stores your content in a database and seamlessly assembles your pages dynamically each time the user visits. Graphical interfaces make it easy to organize and publish your content.

Microsoft announcing new product information; or Amazon.com adding a new book to their online "shelves"; or Mercedes Benz publishing a press release, all do so through a CMS. Wikipedia, CNN.com, and AOL.com would not exist at all without their content management systems, along with almost all other professional websites -- it is just too wieldy and expensive to maintain this much online content by editing individual HTML files by hand.

Proven

Bartoli Technology will build your website with the same open source content management system that is in use by the United Nations, the LA Weekly, Harvard University, even the International House of Pancakes. Thousands of websites have already been deployed using this same tool and hundreds of developers continually support, test, and improve upon it.

We'll customize it with exactly the features and presence that you need. We make use of your existing branding and logos so that you website integrates seamlessly with your existing branding, or we can create new stand out graphics designs to update your company identity.

Lowest Cost of Ownership

Websites deployed with our tools streamline much of the business and overhead of maintaining a website, which saves you time and money every time the website is updated.

Your website can be easily updated by you or your staff, or by Bartoli Technology. Choose what works best for you and your business. The important thing to know if that once your website is deployed, you are not required to have a web developer on staff or by contract to maintain it for you unless that is the most convenient or cost-effective solution for you.

Easy Publishing

editor The online content editor works like Microsoft Word, no knowledge of HTML or web programming is required as the entire process of posting new content or editing old content is straight-forward and easy. Common text functions such as adjusting bold, underline, italics; increasing and decreasing font sizes; inserting bullets; left, right and center justifying; and changes colors are simple and obvious mouse clicks.

More web-centric functions such as inserting hyperlinks to other documents on your website, or on other websites and inserting pictures and captions are complimented with wizards that guide you through the process.

The editor also provides a Preview button to see what your changes will look like within the website, and merely pressing Save publishes it "live." Since the editor is integrated into your website, it can be accessed from anywhere.

Want to publish press releases onto your website while attending an industry conference? No problem.

Quality and Accessibility

Our software is well tested on hundreds of active websites, and new features, bug fixes, and security updates are continually made available.

Bartoli Technology websites are developed to be compliant with WCAG requirements for accessibility.

Advanced Functionality

Don't reinvent any wheels -- content management systems already have all of the generally required website features and more advanced functionality built-in:

User Accounts: Provide the ability for your website to have users, registration and login pages, and "My Account" features.

Social Networking: Features like user avatars, blogs, walls, private messaging, and full-featured forums can be easily integrated.

Search: Since all website content is contained in a database, searching is highly reliable and configurable

Management: Menu editing, advertising, and other features are adjusted through an administrative console.

Content syndication: Make your new content headlines available for other websites, or automatically repost newsfeeds (e.g. CNN.com) and headlines from your favorite industry websites into your own website.

Search Engine Optimization: While making your website rank higher in Google searches is something of an artform, our content management system assists the process by providing an organized view of your content that helps Google to understand and contextualize the content of your website.

Additionally, automatically provide search engine (and user!) friendly addresses. For example, rather than http://www.bartolitech.com/index.php?option=com_content&sectionid=4&task=view&cid[]=47 our SEF engine instead provides http://www.bartolitech.com/services/website-design.
 
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