Joomla

Joomla is licensed under GPL, written in PHP and supports SQL databases. The most interesting features of Joomla are blogs, easy search incorporated in the Web site, polls, RSS feeds, easy migration of static Web site to dynamic Web site, site text translation, and adding or extending functions using plug-ins and caching. These features have made Joomla the widely acceptable modular open source development application.

The OpenSource Technogies team been successfully working with Joomla CMS for over two years. Joomla is our showcase and we are Joomla experts. During this time we have successfully completed many complex and simple Joomla projects.

We provide Joomla-based services within the spectrum of PHP/Linux-based Web applications. We build comprehensive and robust sites by integrating and customizing Joomla to suit individual client requirements. We can also integrate Joomla with third-party applications such as SAP, Sage and SugarCRM, vBulletin, phpBB among others.

Solutions
Keeping Joomla as the base, we customize by integrating components and plug-ins for complex needs. Joomla development solutions include:

• Community Portals:
  We use Joomla's community-builder extension suite to develop community Web sites for our clients. These enable administrators to maintain and manage their online user communities and capture customized user information during registration. Front-end users can create profiles, upload them to the Web site and browse through other user profiles.
• Online Shopping Applications:
  VirtueMart is one of the more popular shopping cart components available with Joomla. The shopping cart solutions developed by us provide the clients with robust applications that enable them to easily operate their storefront. Administrators can maintain and manage detailed product catalogs and track and process online orders. We can also include search options for customers to browse through products and book orders online.
• Online Image Galleries:
  We develop these through the Image Gallery component of Joomla. Users can upload and add images to galleries in several categories. The front-end users browse through the galleries, rate and post comments about the images.
• Site Maps:
  Joomla's indexing component of Joomla can develop and integrate extensive site maps, content indexes and visual maps. This enables our clients to showcase visual maps on their Web site. Administrators can define specific areas within the map that users can enlarge.
• Corporate Web sites:
  have developed many Web sites for corporate clients which include an online platform about their services and products. These dynamic Joomla-based Web sites provide clients with an automated system to publish and manage content appearing on the Web site.
• Online Magazines:
  Joomla allows publishers to easily upload and showcase online available articles from their offline magazines. We have integrated several components such as the subscription manager to enable Web site users to send in their subscriptions for the offline edition of the magazine. This provides publishers with an easy and effective mechanism to increase the subscriber base through increased subscriptions.
• Micro-site Management:
  This enables client to offer their various business customers the option to register with them and create their individual micro-sites to advertise their services. Buyers can search and browse through the micro-sites and send in their queries.

OpenSource Technologies is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Joomla Project or Open Source Matters. The Joomla logo is used under a limited license granted by Open Source Matters the trademark holder in the United States and other countries.

Drupal

Drupal is an open source content management system that can be used to develop a variety of Web sites: personal; corporate; community portals like discussion forums and social networking Web sites; and complex applications like e-Commerce and intranet. The Drupal CMS enables Web editors to easily publish and manage content appearing on the sites.

Drupal is written using the PHP scripting language and is available under the GNU public license. It supports a wide range of operating systems such as Linux, Solaris, BSD, Windows and Mac OSX, etc.

Drupal is based on extensible and modular architecture. Various plug-in modules and components can be easily integrated with it to enhance its basic functions. Customized modules that provide additional/enhanced features not available with Drupal can be developed and integrated with the solution.

The OST team is expert at developing Drupal-based Web applications. Keeping Drupal as a base, we also develop custom modules that can be integrated to provide customized solutions.

Drupal Features

Drupal has many built-in features:

Browser-Based Interfaces: Drupal provides browser-based admin interfaces that can be used to manage a Web site as well as publish and organize page content.

Themes: A library of template themes enables layouts customized to client preferences.

Extensions: A wide variety of extensions are available that can be integrated with the basic Drupal setup in order to provide enhanced and advanced functions such as discussion forums, blogs, shopping carts, podcasting, photo galleries, etc.

Multiple sites: The default Drupal installation enables multiple sites to be run from a single installation.

Search Engine-Friendly URLs: Drupal enables the generation of URLs encouraging to search engines.

Taxonomy: The taxonomy module available in Drupal enables Web site content to be easily categorized and organized in a tree structure making content search easier.

Discussion Forum: Discussion forum features are built into Drupal. The discussion forum module enables users to enter comments and carry on a discussion with other users.

Versioning: Drupal maintains multiple versions of each content item, enabling administrators to track content modifications. Versioning also helps in restoring content of a previous version.

News Aggregator: Drupal provides a built in news aggregator that can be used to gather news/articles from other sites such as blogs.

Polls: Opinion polls on the Web sites can be customized, such as specific user groups only allowed to vote, or multiple answer options displayed, etc.

Multi-lingual: Drupal provides support for multiple languages, so multilingual Web sites can be easily created.

Reporting: The built-in reporting module provides detailed reports on site performance, event logs, etc.

User Profile: Drupal enables registered users of a Web site to create and share their profiles with others.

Content Linking: Multiple content items and articles can be linked to form an online book. This feature can also be used to create FAQs, manuals etc.

Page Caching: Caching helps in improving page generation time and reducing the load on the Web server.

Contact Module: Through the contact module available in Drupal users can send messages to each other through the Web site.

Directory Sites: Web sites developed using Drupal can connect to other directory-listing Web sites.


Drupal offers the following advantages to clients:

Cost Effective: Drupal, as an open source application, is a cost-effective solution.

Support Community: Drupal has a strong online support and developer community. Enhancements and updates are available at regular intervals.

Customizable: Drupal has a modular architecture. Features and functionalities are easily added or removed to meet individual requirements.

Wordpress

WordPress started in 2003 with a single bit of code to enhance the typography of everyday writing and with fewer users than you can count on your fingers and toes. Since then it has grown to be the largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world, used on millions of sites and seen by tens of millions of people every day.

Everything you see here, from the documentation to the code itself, was created by and for the community. WordPress is an Open Source project, which means there are hundreds of people all over the world working on it. (More than most commercial platforms.) It also means you are free to use it for anything from your cat’s home page to a Fortune 500 web site without paying anyone a license fee and a number of other important freedoms.

About WordPress.org

On this site you can download and install a software script called WordPress. To do this you need a web host who meets the minimum requirements and a little time. WordPress is completely customizable and can be used for almost anything. There is also a service called WordPress.com which lets you get started with a new and free WordPress-based blog in seconds, but varies in several ways and is less flexible than the WordPress you download and install yourself.

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