What is content management?
Content management is the process and tools used to manage a website. Five Q focuses on a "bottom up" approach to content management. Starting with the excellent Django framework, Five Q has developed a tool we call "Springboard". Springboard helps us rapidly craft content management tools around the needs of our clients. The end result is a system that costs the same as a one-size-fits-all tool, but works remarkably better.
Is a specialized content management solution expensive?
It all depends on what you need. If all you want to do is blog, then a off-the-shelf system like WordPress is great. However, many organizations need to manage content that does not fit into a pre-canned system. In those cases, it makes more sense to use a framework to build a specialized solution, and is often cheaper than you would expect.
Are specialized content management solutions hard to maintain?
Not really. In fact, tools like Django and Springboard makes things easier and cheaper. How? Whenever you need to customize an off-the-shelf CMS, you need to maintain those customizations. If the CMS software changes, you need to update your code. Frameworks are designed to be maintainable... off-the-shelf solutions tend to be hit and miss.
How does a flexible content management drive results?
A easy-to-use content management system is a huge timesaver for staff, since these tools are designed with non-technical people in mind. This makes it much more likely that your website content will be kept up-to-date if the tools are easy to use.
