RE: Too many options, need advice on web CMS

Good Afternoon Brian,

You are probably going to get a bunch of CMS vendors replying with
recommendations to take a look at their products and so I apologize up front
for sending you one more. I don't usually respond to these types of requests
but your requirements so closely matched our product features that I could
not avoid throwing our hat in the ring.

SiteSage 5.0 provides most if not all the features you are looking for.
- SiteSage-SE with the Sub-Site feature or SiteSage-EE supports multi-sites
on the same server with separate or shared content bases.
- Integrated multi-lingual support (no auto translation though).
- Integrated AD authentication for authors.
- Integrated staging server with versioning and workflow for content
changes.
- Runs on Win2k IIS - No third party products or components required (100%
Active Server Pages application)
- SiteSage-EE is a server based license (unlimited users) and custom site
licensing available.
- Uses fixed templates and you can control what templates are used on what
sites.
- We have not had much experience with section 508 but are willing to work
on any deficiencies that may be encountered.
- Integrated Newsletter mailing list system letting users craft rich emails
from templates you can define.
- Integrated "word like" WYSIWYG visual editor for creating content - No
HTML required.
- SiteSage installs in less than 30 minutes and is well documented and easy
to use.
- Training generally takes less than 3-4 hours.
- SiteSage is one of the most reasonably priced CMS applications in the
market. Easy to install and priced between $495.00 (SiteSage-LE) and
$9995.00 (SiteSage-EE).

Contact me if I can be of any assistance.

Best regards,

Michael B. Murdock, CEO
Starphire Technologies, LLC.
"Web Content Management Solutions"
18830 US 19 N,. Suite 332
Clearwater, FL  33764

(727) 531-7953 (Office)
www.starphire.com

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From: cms-list-admin-/[email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On
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Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 8:55 PM
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Subject: [cms-list] Too many options, need advice on web CMS


I never realized how crowded the CMS market is! Our college has hemorrhaged
90% of its web staff over the past couple of years, and we're trying to
implement a CMS to delegate some of the web content maintenance to our end
users. In addition, we are trying to eliminate an MS FrontPage based hosting
environment in favor of something browser based and simpler to use. I've
already spoken with several vendors, but I'd like to hear from this lists
users and make sure I'm not missing any good ones. Our requirements are:

*	Must have native multi-site support. We have an in-house hosting
environment with multiple sites per server.
*	Must have native multi-lingual capability (English/Spanish), and
we'd really prefer integrated translation tools (though they are optional).
*	Prefer LDAP authentication, but will settle for NT only...we just
need our AD to authenticate the editors.
*	Prefer versioning and workflow control features.
*	Must run on Windows 2000 Server (no CF based solutions though. Java
and PERL OK).
*	Must support SQL Server 7 or Oracle 9i.
*	Must support the creation of unlimited sub-sites (for private
faculty websites).
*	Must utilize a 100% browser based, mouse driven website development
environment.
*	MUST (repeat) MUST be exceedingly easy to use...math teachers don't
make the best web developers.
*	Must offer a site licensing option. With over 20 domains, 1000
editors, and seven servers, per "x" licensing quickly becomes cost
prohibitive for us.
*	Must allow the use of fixed templates, and allow us to restrict
which templates are available where
*	CMS's that are cognizant of the requirements of Section 508 and
disabled users are strongly preferred.
*	Must allow non-technical users  to create email and DB based forms
for the websites without programming knowledge.
*	Users shouldn't have to learn a single line of HTML
*	Must be relatively easy to install and administer (if I have to
spend 2 weeks in a classroom just to learn to install the program, I'm not
going to bother).
*	Must be reasonably priced and quickly implementable. As a state
funded public college, we don't have $200,000 to drop or six months to wait.


All suggestions are welcome.

Brian Hill



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