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1. Consulting - Your Virtual Development Team
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Customers have been taking advantage of our consulting service for
years now, using us as their expert virtual development team for a ton
of content management projects, large and small. We can help you in
many ways: CMS Builder integration, custom programming, project
management, vision and guidance, and more.
A lot of web designers are finding that CMS Builder is so popular that
they're getting more projects than they can handle. In turn, they
design the site and pass off the integration work to us.
What's best about this is just like our software, our consulting
service is private label. We work behind the scenes, integrating a
powerful content management system that automates your entire website.
When all is said and done, your customer is happy to get what they
asked for and you charge a premium for our service. We do the work,
you take all the credit.
We do this kind of work so often that we can do it fast and for quite
possibly less than what it would cost in house or from any other
professional CMS shop. CMS Builder is also the best application on the
market for rapidly integrating a content management system into your
website. The speed of work and the rapid deployment of CMS Builder,
coupled with our experience, keep your costs down.
Why keep a team of 2-3 programmers on payroll when you don't always
need their services? There's really no need to manage your ongoing
in-house expenses if you don't need them. Hire us as your on-demand
consulting service when you need it. We'll work as part of your team
to get your project done fast, on time, and on budget.
Have a project? To get started visit the Consulting page and contact
us for a free, no-obligation estimate.
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2. Sneak Peak of New CMS Builder Interface
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Over the last few weeks we've been secretly working on a new CMS
Builder interface, giving our flagship product a totally new look and
feel.
The new interface is an updated, modern design. These changes make CMS
Builder more intuitive, giving your users larger text fields, larger
fonts, and simpler navigation.
I wanted to give you a sneak preview of the new interface and get your
feedback. Below are some screenshots:
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Login Page
You can really see here how much larger the fields are.
The buttons and fields are also much more slick.
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List of Records
This page lists the records belonging to a section editor.
With larger fonts and fields users will find the new CMS Builder much
easier to use.
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Edit/Create New Record
From this page you create or update a record. With
this screenshot you really get a feel for how modern the new design
is.
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Plugins Manager
You can see how the admin menu expands to show
additional links. Also, you get an idea of how links and dialogue
boxes look.
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Also, as with the current CMS Builder interface, you'll have an
external style sheet where you can easily change the colours to match
your companies colour palette and brand. This way the product can look
like your own solution when reselling it to your customers.
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3. Tips from the Forum
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The latest tips, tricks, tutorials, and more from the community of the interactivetools.com forum.
CMS Builder: Unique WYSIWYG Options for Each Section
In this post Dave shows you how you can create a unique WYSIWYG Editor
for the different sections of your CMS Builder, each with their own
options. For example, have your WYSIWYG Editor support image uploading
for your news section but have image uploading disabled for your About
Us section.
CMS Builder: Create Custom Presets
Why reinvent the wheel every time you start a new CMS Builder project.
In this post I explain how you can create custom presets for your CMS
Builder. For example, you can create an "Articles" preset and use this
same preset for all of your future projects.
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4. Developer Resources
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Here are a couple of useful resources for web developers and designers. Email me YOUR favourite resource and I might feature it in a future newsletter.
20 Do’s and Dont's of Effective Web Design
For the average person who wants a website or blog for their business,
they are after one very important thing?? sales. Now, they may tell
you that they want the big flashy logos, or the overdone
textures/gradients, but it is the job of a well skilled web designer
to steer their clients in the right direction.
45 Incredibly Useful Web Design Checklists and Questionnaires
Designing websites can be a long and complicated process. Dealing with
clients, designing prototypes, coding, programming, and testing –
there’s a lot to keep track of and a lot to make sure gets done.
That’s where checklists can make your life a whole lot easier. With
lists of points covering multiple areas from content to usability to
accessibility to standards, you’re a lot less likely to overlook
important parts of a site.
15 CSS Tricks That Must Be Learned
As web designers and developers, we have all come to learn many css
tricks and techniques that help us achieve our layout goals. This is a
list of 20 excellent "must know" css techniques to keep in mind when
developing a website.
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About the author
The interactivetools.com newsletter is written by Luke Holzken.
About interactivetools.com
interactivetools.com creates world-class web software. Web developers use our software to provide their non-technical
clients with an easy-to-use system for managing their websites. Visit
interactivetools.com or try an
online demo, free! Call us at 1-800-752-0455
if you have any questions not addressed on our site.
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