23 June 2009

EPiServer Project for Cadmium

I have now completed my first ever EPiServer site in conjuction with Cadmium, a web design shop based in Lorient, France. The developer experience with EPiServer is generally very good, and a good developer experience leads to fast project delivery.

That aside, EPiServer is still the most powerful Content Management System I have come across - it is in fact the only CMS I would consider recommending. There are far too many small market share CMS's that lock naive website owners into a single vendor or small pool of vendors, and this is a major problem in the website industry at present. If you become dissatisfied with the service from your website vendor, there are often few or no alternatives. This situation is very common because website vendors strive for your initial business, but have little interest in ongoing support.

Because EPiServer sites are ASP.NET applications, ASP.NET developers can quickly make the transition to EPiServer developer. When you need to modify your EPiServer site, not only do you have the full power of ASP.NET at your disposal, but you can choose from literally 1000's of development shops and contractors that specialise in ASP.NET and/or EPiServer. No more lock-in!

29 May 2009

EPiServer Developer Training

I've recently completed EPiServer developer training, so I'm pleased to be able to offer EpiServer development services. EPiServer is a web Content Management System in a league of its own. The product is very mature, having been around since 1997, and is based on ASP.NET 2.0 technology. The beauty of this CMS is that it gives all the power of an ASP.NET application to the content managed site. The result is that the client gets a content managed site with very easy to use features like right-click to edit page content, and they get the option to add community oriented features such as blogs and discusion forums, whilst leaving open endless possibilities for customisations using ASP.NET.