We use Joomla! which is an open source content management system platform for publishing content on the World Wide Web and intranets as well as a Model–view–controller (MVC) Web application framework. It is written in PHP, stores data in MySQL and includes features such as page caching, RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, news flashes, blogs, polls, search, and support for language internationalization

Features:

The Joomla! package consists of many different parts, which allow modular extensions and integrations to be made easily. An example of such are extensions called "Plugins".(Previously known as "Mambots".) Plugins are background extensions that extend Joomla! with new functionality. The WikiBot, for example, allows the author of Joomla! content to use "Wikitags" in Joomla! articles which will auto-create dynamic hyperlinks to Wikipedia articles when displayed.

There are over 3,000 extensions for Joomla! available via the Extensions Directory.

In addition to Plugins, more comprehensive extensions are available. "Components" allow webmasters to perform such tasks as build a community by expanding user features, backup a website, translate content, create URLs that are more friendly to search engines and add shopping cart functionality for e-commerce website."Modules" perform such tasks as displaying a calendar or allowing custom code like Google AdSense etc., to be inserted within the base Joomla! code.

Joomla! permits administrators to set global configuration parameters that affect every article.Every page conforms to these parameters by default, but a page can have its own setting for each parameter. For example, you can select to show or hide the article author or simply go with the global "show author" parameter.

Content Management System (CMS) Solutions:

A Content Management System (CMS) is a collection of procedures used to manage work flow in a collaborative environment. These procedures can be manual or computer-based. The procedures are designed to:

• Allow for a large number of people to contribute to and share stored data
• Control access to data, based on user roles. User roles define what information each user can view or edit
• Aid in easy storage and retrieval of data
• Reduce repetitive duplicate input
• Improve the ease of report writing
• Improve communication between users

In a CMS, data can be defined as almost anything - documents, movies, pictures, phone numbers, scientific data, etc. CMSs are frequently used for storing, controlling, revising, semantically enriching, and publishing documentation. Content that is controlled is industry-specific. For example, entertainment content differs from the design documents for a fighter jet. There are various terms for systems (related processes) that do this. Examples include: Web Content Management, Digital Asset Management, Digital Records Management, Electronic Content Management (and others). Synchronization of intermediate steps, and collation into a final product are common goals of each.

The database solution can also be designed to enhance the user-experience of the website for instance by developing the website with Search Features, Customer Login Areas, and Member areas with dynamic member pages. Below is a list of a variety of dynamic features that can be tied into a database for easy controls by the administrator of the website:

Client Login Systems:
Your company might want to provide information and documents securely on your website for specified clients, customers or accounts. An Admin accessed control panel to the Client Login system let’s you set up password protected client accounts and post client or member specific documents and information to client portal areas. With a clean, easy-to-use back-end interface posting files is easy and hassle-free. We can develop an Admin’s control area for different levels of file types, such as files to be posted for ALL customers, files to be posted for specific type of customers, and files to be posted only for one account.

With a dynamic data driven website, your website’s document, text and image content can be made searchable according to given variables. Developing a database for searchable content is recommended when the site contains a heavy amount of content and the visitor needs to find information according to his/her specifications. Typical search features are custom searches to an extensive product catalog combined with different viewing options, custom searches to a project portfolio, keyword searches to an informational content, and ability to save search quories and results on websites with user-accounts. Searches on the website set an active, dynamic feel increasing the interactivity with the visitor and potentially the user-time spent on the website. The more customized information you wish to provide and the further you want to pinpoint your customers individualized needs, the more important it is to develop and utilize a solid database solution for your website.

Apartment Site Solutions specializes in designing websites that require secure user registration and user login areas, following with user accounts and user pages according to the specifications of the website’s business model. For instance, user accounts are needed if your site offers member-specific customizable data that cannot be accessed by unregistered visitors. User account system sets the members to an active path, letting them to be active participants of your website rather than just visitors. Examples of type of website that utilize user-acounts are many; the most common include websites with online stores, game websites, social networking websites, online directories, discussion forums, and any other sites where the business model finds it beneficial that frequent users have member accounts in place that allow them to login to access their member specific data.

Following with the above description on Member Accounts, needless to state that Member Features vary as greatly as do the online portals. Common examples of member features that require registration are posting photos and content online on a member-specific networking or marketing page (i.e "renting" networking or advertising space on someone’s website), taking part to discussion forums or chat rooms, saving search results on an online store, saving search results on a real estate website, particpating to an online game, posting information to an online directory or using a free service where the owner of the website wishes to collect demographic information of the users for properly planned targeted marketing campaigns.

Apartment Site Solutions designs PHP/MySQL database driven online directories. Custom online directories may promote professional communities, offer paid or free featured listing space, or contrast service providers in an objective way according to consumer reviews and ratings. Directories can make their business profit by either selling listing space and/or advertisement space or act as an enhanced service model to an existing customer base. Our services include project specifications consulting, branding strategies, information architecture design and visualization, custom website graphics design and coding, database design, programming and integration, administration area design, extensive user-testing, web master work as needed.

Cookies bring your site to life with content individualized for each viewing. Your website can be optimized to change its text, images and colors on each visit making your company’s Web presence come across fresh and updated to your website’s frequent visitors. We can also design a back-end cookie management system that allows the site’s administrator to upload and edit image and text content showcased in the cookie components.