Tyrell Software is an enthusiastic provider of hosting and services for the Content Management revolution. Advanced, desirable functionality used by successful companies to maintain their web sites are now available in free, open source Content Management Systems (CMS):

• Delegating responsibility for sections of your site to individuals or groups, while wielding editorial control.
• Creating documents without knowledge of computer languages like HTML or XML.
• Presenting your site in multiple languages, tailored to each visitor.
• Supporting emerging technologies like news aggregators and web-ready mobile devices like PDAs and cell phones.
• Promoting and selling your products online with e-commerce credit card verification and payment, and much, much more.

Best of all, since open source software is free to license, your upfront costs are minimal, the results real and immediate. Of course, not every open source CMS is created equal. Some are insanely flexible, but very hard to use and set up. Others sacrifice features for simplicity. We believe strongly that usability is the key to a successful content management solution. Tyrell has found a solution that provides the most user-friendly experience available, yet doesn't skimp on features. This CMS is Plone, and we re-launched our site with it in February 2003.

Learning from the mistakes of others

In the previous decade, the world awoke to the potential of having a global presence on the Internet. Large companies made a lot of large web sites, while smaller companies typically created smaller ones. But some "large" companies weren't large, they just had current and ever-expanding content on their website, something most people felt only big companies could accomplish.

Unfortunately, many businesses overspent on hardware and software touted to handle massive sites and traffic with huge upfront costs but often little return. Worse, it was usually overkill for their actual needs.

Some companies built their own modest site management tools using existing applications, gluing them together with freely available tools. This was found to be very effective, because costs were low and benefits were realized quickly.

The lessons learned by these agile groups spread, and now the web finds itself on the verge of another evolution, or dare we say, a revolution. Free (open source) Content Management Systems provide the important features needed by the majority of sites, and are easy to customize for specific needs, just like the home-grown tools that inspired them.

The Revolution Waits for No One

What the economy cannot and will not tolerate is more wasteful, unmaintainable or hard to use web sites. Migrate your web site into an easy-to-use CMS like Plone and speed past the behemoths saddled with the bloated CMS investments of yesteryear.

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