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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!

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.

Auctori boasts a seamlessly integrated utility that grants users a direct graphical analysis of their Google Analytics traffic statistics. Using Microsoft’s Silverlight technology and leveraging the unique framework of Auctori we are able to present key metrics from your Google Analytics account directly within Auctori. Check out the screenshot below for an example!

Auctori Dashboard with Google Analytics

We invite you to learn more about Unidev’s content management SEO-friendly CMS Auctori at: www.Auctori.com.

On the fence about implementing a content management system?

It’s rare to talk about creating a web site today without talking about implementing a content management system. Content management systems (CMS) make it easy to create a high quality website without having much technical knowledge or experience. A CMS is great for creating websites that will have multiple users or large amounts of content.

Here are just a few benefits of using a CMS that you may want to consider:

1.) Spend less time learning code- A lot of web publishers are not developers. They are people with interest in a topic and want to share information. Not everyone knows how to type in the “magical” codes that add text to a website site, and let’s face it, most people don’t have the time or interest  to learn. Using a content management system makes updating your website easy because there is no code to learn and a person can get by knowing a small amount of HTML.

2.)Site structure can be easily changed- If a site is built strictly in HTML, it can be a night-mare to change the site’s structure because each page has to be modified. CMS users completely dodge this issue because content management systems use templates. Once the template is changed to update the colors, design, or navigational structure, all of the site’s pages will automatically be updated with the change.

3.)Systems make site updates easy- Without a CMS an administrator needs to have the files on the computer they are using, which may not be practical in all instances. When using a CMS, sites can be easily updated from any computer; the user only needs to have the login page and a password – and they can make changes at anytime from any location in the world.

4.) Pay less for web services- Are you tired of paying web developers and designers to make every little update to your website? With this turnkey solution, you hold the power to make as many changes as you want to your website and as often as you like – with no change in costs.

5.) Choose a CMS that is built for search engine optimized- Relax, let the CMS handle the SEO. Some Content Management systems are Web CMS built for Search Engine Optimization (SEO). These Web Content Management Systems come equipped with several SEO features, such as SEO Friendly URLs and content optimization elements for SEO

6.) Authorization for administrator roles - A CMS allows you to provide different members of your company different levels of access to your site, so that they can manage content appropriate for their position.

-In conclusion, content management systems have numerous benefits, all of which contribute to streamlined yet comprehensive access to your website content. A CMS makes professional-looking websites that are easy to update, and web publishers and developers alike will appreciate the ease of using and customizing a CMS as opposed to developing a website’s backend from scratch.

Now that you know the benefits of a CMS, as well as what constitutes an SEO-friendly CMS, learn more about Unidev’s content management SEO-friendly CMS Auctori at: www.Auctori.com.