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AIRHAWK, a comfort seating system for motorcycles manufactured by ROHO Group Inc., approached the Auctori team to place their custom web design into the web content management system. Implementing their design into the CMS allows AIRHAWK to update their site instantly and preplan for future events that will keep their community interested, informed and engaged.

AIRHWAWK’s website includes different pages for product descriptions, retailer information, multimedia, events, press, and a ‘contact us’ form, all within Auctori’s search engine optimized platform. With Auctori, AIRHAWK now has the opportunity to strengthen their Internet presence and their overall brand reputation by giving their targeted community an attractive and professional, custom designed website, as well as the power to maintain their web content in real time.

Auctori:city Provides Cities with an Effective Website as well as the Ability to Manage Content in Real-Time

 Auctori:city, a Microsoft Certified Web Content Management System designed for cities, launched on June 9, 2010.A silo of Auctori, an innovation of Unidev, Auctori:city was created to meet the specific online needs of city and government websites.

“In working one on one with our city clients, we quickly learned community websites are much more than a place to display basic information about a city. City websites serve as a platform to help maintain a direct line of communication between the city and its residents, visitors, businesses and community leaders, and we developed Auctori:city with this in mind.  With Auctori:city, municipalities can now make changes easily and quickly ensuring their website visitors are accessing the most current information possible. In addition, the system’s flexibility and robust features allow cities to add character to their website,” said Andrea Bemis, Brand Manager of Auctori. 

Unidev’s solution provides cities with the opportunity to strengthen their Internet presence and their overall brand reputation by giving users a professionally designed website and the power to maintain their content in real-time.  Auctori:city is a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution providing all of the benefits of cloud computing. In addition to standard content management features, Auctori:city is equipped with modules to meet the specific online needs of municipalities. These city centric modules include: a photo gallery, community calendar, a business directory, an articles and news module, and a form builder, which can calculate the statistics of online surveys.

Auctori:city has partnered with online interactive agency, The Net Impact to offer custom city web design, web development and Internet marketing services to Auctori:city clients. In addition, through their partnership with The Net Impact, Auctori:city offers social media marketing services such as city social media design and management. With the Auctori:city Facebook module, an article, news, event update or press release will automatically populate a city’s Facebook page through an RSS feed. This option saves time and effort for Auctori:city users by allowing them to keep their social media marketing current from one main interface. In addition, Auctori:city allows you to have multiple RSS feeds for different social media applications.

“Today’s citizens want a more active, participatory relationship with their government and to have 24/7 access to reliable and valuable information that affects their everyday lives, and there is no better vehicle to reach a community than a city’s website,” said Steve Thomas, President of The Net Impact. “We are proud to partner with Auctori:city to offer cities a functionality-based website that improves the direct interaction with their community.”

For graphic design firms and web design agencies, Auctori is the solution you’ve been dreaming of.  Do you have a website that you need to complete for a client in an abbreviated time frame?  Have you tried other content management systems that either don’t have everything you need, or are cumbersome to work with?  The Auctori platform is ideal for graphic designers and web design agencies.  Built in .net you can easily add master page templates to create the exact look and feel of the website design you are trying to achieve.

What Can Auctori do for me?

I want to use my own design. – We will work with you and together create a custom page layout that fits your ideas and best displays your design work. Once the designs have been implemented, the Auctori framework is flexible enough to accommodate almost any website layout that you desire. We will never try to fit your designs into a standard template.

I want to pay less for IT services. Once online, with no assistance needed from your “computer guys”, a WCMS makes managing your website a stroll in the park! Auctori gives you the power to easily complete your website project from start to finish, or simply implement your design and turn it over to your client for their content.

I want to build my business. Auctori allows you to manage an unlimited amount of websites from a single log in. Let us handle the technical stuff so you can invest more time doing what you love to do, designing. Also, Auctori has introduced a revenue share program that will benefit your business with every new client!

I Want Flexibility. We have a strong belief here at Auctori that your website is truly your website. If you decide to leave Auctori, we will deliver to you all artwork, imagery and supporting files needed to continue running your site elsewhere on a comparable hosting environment…without an additional fee!

Auctori was created to save you work and time. You can be confident that your work will look like  your work, best of all we offer unmatched support. Run into a problem? Just ask. We do the technical stuff. Contact Auctori today for a free demonstration!

The global leader in waterjet cutting technology, KMT chose the Auctori™ web content management system to meet their website’s unique needs. KMT Waterjet wanted a CMS that would allow them to seamlessly integrate website updates including new pages, images, news items, forms and multimedia without assistance from a web developer.  Building their website in the Auctori framework made these website enhancements quick and easy, and allows KMT to upgrade their live site instantly. 

In addition, because of KMT’s global presence, KMT’s Auctori site was configured to support separate international entities. Auctori is built on an i18n Frame with unicode elements allowing easy translation into other languages.  This allows website administrators who speak another language, to have his or her settings on their user profile  changed so that the CMS  interface is instantly translated into the user’s native language. KMT website administrators now have the access and flexibility to easily maintain their website from anywhere at anytime.

Check out their website at: www.kmtwaterjet.com. Other KMT website built in Auctori include: KMT Poland Waterjet, European English Waterjet, Spanish (Spain) Waterjet, French Waterjet, German Waterjet, Italian Waterjet, Mexico Waterjet, English site for Aqua-Dyne, English site for McCartney, Swedish Waterjet, Brazil Waterjet and Chinese Waterjet.

Auctori:law,a web content management system designed specifically for the legal industry showcased at the Association of Legal Administrators (ALA) Annual Educational Conference and Exposition in Boston on May 3-5.

Auctori:law is a search engine friendly content management system that puts the power and control of a law firm’s website in the hands of attorneys and legal professionals. In addition to standard content management features, Auctori:law is equipped with features designed specifically for legal industry, such as an attorney biographies module, news and articles module, and an images module. In addition Auctori:law has partnered with The Net Impact, a St. Louis based online interactive Agency to provide to provide legal clients with Internet marketing and web design services.

At the exhibition, Auctori:law representatives were on hand to answer questions and show ALA members how Auctori:law can make maintaining law firm website stress-free. This was the first ever presence of Auctori:law at the Annual ALA Conference. In addition Auctori:law representation, Steve Thomas, led a vendor showcase session: “Growing Your Legal Business Through Social Media and Search Engine Optimization.”
This interactive presentation covered the hot topics of social media and search engine optimization and how they are relevant to the legal industry.

“Our team is very experienced in developing customized legal websites, and we designed the Auctori:law CMS based upon this experience. We have been able to integrate controls that make editing articles, biographies and documents as well as the general maintenance of your website content very straightforward and less time consuming,” said Andrea Bemis, Auctori:law Brand Manager.

The Auctori:law team had a successful trip to Boston and enjoyed meeting the ALA members! We enjoyed introducing the legal industry to Auctori:law and showing them how with our legal CMS, can make make maintaining your website stress-free!

Check out these great pictures from the exhibition!

Content management technology is showing no signs of slowing down, and with the demand and buzz for social media features, content management system developers and vendors are only expected to collaborate to make their software solutions more social media friendly.

A great way to keep a web page fresh is add a Twitter Feed. Once you have developed a good reputation on Twitter and consistently publish high-quality content, providing your Twitter Feed on your hompage providing can provide value for your followers and help bring additional traffic to your website. The Auctori CMS Twitter Feed module allows users to display their Tweets anywhere on their website. This module takes your most recent Tweets and displays them automatically within an easy to read list for your visiting users. Users have full control over their avatar, how many Tweets to display and even specific grammar settings.

For companies that have daily news to offer, adding a Twitter Feed to your homepage boosts the impact you can achieve with a Twitter account and keeps the search engines happy because you are regularly adding fresh content to your web page.

Foodservice Center, Inc., a broadline food redistributor of the Midwest region, was in need of a redesigned website that could easily be maintained by their staff. The redistributor chose to place their new website design into the Auctori content management system. In placing their website into the CMS, Foodservice Center is now able to better control their professionally designed website internally. The Auctori team made it possible for Foodservice Center’s product categories to stand out by implementing a more effective way of laying out the logos for the company’s different divisions of food: frozen, refrigerated and dry. To place emphasis on specific products, a customized content area was created at the bottom of each page and rotates advertisements for featured products. Foodservice Center, a B2B company that measure success based upon the drive and commitment of their employees and their valued relationships with customers, suppliers, and buying group partners, provides access to a login portal for their “dealers” to easily obtain information online. In addition, a map was built into their website that makes it easy to view their partners by regions.

Powered by Auctori, Foodservice Center’s redesigned website is easy to maintain and highlights products and other important information, while creating an atmosphere for the redistributor’s communities to access information. Review other  CMS Case Studies to see how your company can increase the effectiveness of your professional website by implementing a CMS.

Simply having a website is not enough!

With the ever increasing pace of business done on the Internet, it is essential to keep your website current. The Auctori web content management system (WCMS) can help you do just that. Auctori is a proprietary fully supported International WCMS that puts the power and control of your website into your hands.  This unique and easy to use WCMS solution gives you the power to control your site by adding pages, images or even changing the menu dynamically all in an SEO friendly platform.

Why is Auctori the right CMS to meet all of YOUR individual online needs?

Do you want to be in control of the content on your site? Need an immediate change added to your website? By simply logging into a site through a secure, password-protected portal, site administrators can update content, change images, add announcements and make other instantaneous changes.

Do you want to pay less for web services? Forget about paying web developers and designers for every little change needed to your website. With Auctori, you hold power to make changes to your firm’s site as often as you like and with no change in cost.

Do you want your website to be search engine optimized? Unlike other Content Management Systems, Auctori is a web-based CMS built for SEO , and comes equipped with customized SEO features to maximize traffic and usability. Relax we’ll handle the SEO.

Do you want flexibility? We have a strong belief here at Auctori that your website is truly your website. If you decide to leave Auctori, we will deliver to you all artwork, imagery and supporting files needed to continue running your site elsewhere on a comparable hosting environment.

Don’t forget Auctori was created to save you work and time. Best of all, we offer unmatched support. Run into a problem? Just ask and we’ll take care of it.

When searching for the best content management system to power your new website, you can easily become overwhelmed with the amount of options and details to be considered. One of the most important choices to be made when choosing a CMS for your website is to use an open-source CMS platform or a proprietary CMS.

When it comes to comparing costs, at a glance, the open-source option may sound like the way to go.  While an open-source CMS appears to be free on the surface it is far from it when you take into consideration the time and resources required to customize and support the website. Any developer will require a learning curve to master a new technology, and since the technology labor is the most expensive part of any customization project, businesses that choose open-source will inevitably end up paying for this learning curve. The real costs of an open-source CMS solution usually become visible only during implementation. When you consider the time it can take to customize an 0pen-source CMS, the costs can easily outstrip the costs of a proprietary CMS that delivers the functionality in one solution.

The world of technology has seen an abundance of growth in the past several years, and with this growth, has come a wave of specialization across industries and needs. Some firms have developed software specific to the legal industry with legal CMS, while other firms have focused on creating a CMS for municipalities or for non-profits. These firms have typically developed their own software, and architected these CMS platforms to meet the very specific needs of clients by extending and customizing their technology. Due to specialization, flexibility and operational efficiency, proprietary offerings can often outreach their open- source counterparts.

Here is an excellent excerpt from The Net Impact’s blog, regarding details to consider when choosing an open-source CMS:
      “There is not a corporate body with open source that is obliged to keep your personalized code and      customization in step with new releases and or required web-wide advances.  Once you pull a version off the shelf then it is an obligation of your team or your development partner to keep things running through all of the changes that move the web forward.  Is there a fee for that?  Sure but you are either paying that fee as a service expense or payroll expense anyway.  Your new site will need fixed, debugged and modernized.  That’s how it is.  Plan on it.  If up time is critical then you need a resource.  24/7 support? Inside or outside is up to you.”   Read the full article on The Net Impact’s Blog

Bottom Line: In the end, choosing a proprietary CMS and forming a strong partnership with a successful, established web development company  can not only result in a better outcome for your company, but also result in more money saved. Not to mention that successful CMS providers are around for a reason, they provide a value for their customers, that they can not find in using an open-source CMS.

There are a lot of options to be considered when choosing between implementing an open source CMS or a proprietary CMS, make sure you do your homework before investing the time and money, into a solution that may not be the right fit for your business.  Never forget that the main purpose of a CMS is to make creating and editing content simple and easy, and you should never sacrifice user-experience for functionality.

Need a content management system that is easy to use and SEO Friendly. Then Auctori is the right solution for you. Auctori combines both the functionality of a content management system with the important key components to optimize a website for search engines.

Auctori is built with the search engines in mind. Below are just a few SEO features that Auctori has to offer:

1. Meta Information – With Auctori you can control your Meta Information (Title, Description and Keywords) for each page of your website.
2. Title Tags – are customized on a page -specific level
3. Static, Keyword Rich URL – URLs have historically been the most problematic SEO issue for CMS platforms. Auctori allows you to generate URLs that are compatible with the search engines.
4. Custom HTML Tags – Auctori provides you with the ability to control your HTML tags for things like added internal links, heading tags and subheadlines. With Auctori you have control of the HTML tags at page level.
5. Image-Handling & Alt Tags – Alt tags are  a clear must-have from an SEO perspective, serving as the “anchor text” when an image links and providing relevant, indexable content for the search engines.

We invite you to learn more about our SEO-friendly content management system at Auctori.com or schedule a free DEMO today.