May 14, 2008

New Version of our Content Management System

Twelve Horses rarely, if ever, will produce a website that doesn’t have a content management system (CMS). Our CMS – which we call WebGen – allows our clients to update the content on their own website independent of calling us. It’s one of our core beliefs here at Twelve Horses, that a website is living breathing entity. As such, the content on the site should be added to and updated frequently and we want this to be as easy and quick as possible.

In my tenure at Twelve Horses – just over 6 years – we’ve always had an in-house CMS that we implemented. We’ve constantly been evolving it, adding features and making it better. Today, we are pleased to announce the release of version 1.4.1. While it appears to be a dot release, it’s quite significant for us.

We’ve added 12 new features, enhanced 10 existing features and fixed numerous bugs. Of the new features, the two most impressive are a comprehensive permissions-based system and multi-site management system.

Our larger clients have a need to allow certain people within their organization to edit separate parts of their sites. These clients still need to have control over the content to make sure the brand and style is maintained. Our new permission system provides for permissions around adding, editing, publishing, approving, uploading and just about any element of the website you can imagine. And while we’ve had permissions in the past, this is the first time it’s been implemented in WebGen and to the extent it’s capable now.

Multi-site management allows clients to manage two or more separate sites through the same interface. This means sites that are hosted on separate domains can maintain consistency, share content and provide one seamless interface for updates.

As you can see, we take our CMS very seriously. We are well down the road map for the 1.5 and 2.0 releases. If you are a current customer, we will be contacting you shortly about the upgrade. If you are not yet a customer, contact us about doing a demo today.