Do you want a reliable, economical website that you can edit and update?

Wikisetup specializes in setting up WordPress, MediaWiki and Drupal content management sites.

• We can customize your new site to look like your existing artwork or site, and it is editable by you.
• With our fee as low as $US320 to set up and theme your site, server fees are your only other cost.
• You have complete control. There is no software or licensing fee or reliance on a third party cloud. You can provide your own server or rent a suitable server or VPS, and we can help you with that.
• Word[ress is especially user-friendly, but all CMS sites allow you or your staff to easily create, edit and maintain your website's content, images and layout.
• We provide free documentation for our CMS websites and there are excellent resources online.
• WordPress, MediaWiki and Drupal are free, open source, reliable and popular. Each has a robust developer community, you are not stuck with one commercial software provider.

Your desired site can be as simple as brochureware through to deploying powerful business tools.

• WordPress sites are small to medium scale with easily editable text, images, videos and links.
• Drupal has additional project management functionality and 6000-odd specialist modules.
• MediaWiki is for collaborative and academic sites, that may need customized extensions.

This website is a Drupal

Drupal powers a wide variety of sites (over two million or 1.5% of all websites), from personal and small business to corporate and government sites, knowledge management to collaboration. WordPress is even more popular, with 15% of all sites. MediaWiki powers Wikipedia, the world's 8th busiest site. They all give you or secure users the power to change your content in a browser.

• You can change the contents of the site and the way it looks on the page.
• Select the pages you want readers and customers to see.
• Offer collaboration and online business and productivity tools for your staff or private users.
• Use project management features, enabling advanced business functionality.
• Set up private groups and forums for your staff and contributors (using phpBB).

Servers for MediaWiki, Drupal and WordPress can be hosted and updated by any network staff with PHP/HTML/CSS competence.

Themes - look and feel

We can create your custom theme in MediaWiki, Drupal 6 or 7 and WordPress 3 so your site or intranet looks great, while consulting with you in real time about your design and specifications. English only spoken sorry.

• We can translate the look of your existing website or corporate theme or any design you provide.
• We are developers foremost - clients usually provide an accurate pictorial design, or working HTML/CSS code. We can even customize your new CMS using your existing website's design.
• Banner advertising can be updated by yourself or staff, using IAB advertising sizes if desired.
• Pages can be fixed or stretchable: one, two or three columns, headers and footers.
• Themes and skins can be based on Zen or Vector, your design or existing site.
• Portlets and blocks can be sited anywhere, with menus editable by you or your staff.

This site uses our own theme. See Screenshots for themes we have made from client designs.

Setup and administration

We can install MediaWiki, Drupal or WordPress (or phpBB if you also want a forum) on your Linux or Microsoft server using standard procedures. They are all written in PHP, like Facebook, and use the MySql database engine.

• We are happy to administer the site long-term or ad hoc on your server or VPS.
• While we do not offer our own hosting we will help you find the right server/VPS and set it up.
• We can optimize your Apache server to cache common files, to decrease page load times.
• You can have other programs running on your server, or be on a shared host if necessary.
• Our procedures are standard and well documented, and easily reproduced.

Content and project management

A simple WordPress or Drupal installation works fine straight out of the box (with only the theme customized) for small business users, while offering skilled practitioners free use of its potential.

• Once we have installed your CMS you can edit it yourself. Wikisetup can provide regular or ad hoc content management services, including editing services to keep your site orderly.
• Some enterprises benefit from an organisational project management system suitable for their needs. We are able to install and customize project management software to your specifications on Open Atrium or Drupal Commons, which are social business sites, and with Drupal Storm and/or CiviCRM.

Modules and extensions

We install and configure any plugins, extensions, modules or module suites on your CMS. We write custom extensions for MediaWiki.

• MediaWiki has History built in, so all activity is preserved for auditing. Drupal has a module that provides complete history.
• If you have a special use for a new module or extension we will write it or adapt an existing one.

For custom MediaWiki extensions we work with the Industry-leading MediaWiki software architecture team at OrganicDesign.

Documentation

We provide basic free documentation for all CMS types. Where an installation has a set of procedures to be followed by your users, we can create custom documentation. All users who need to perform content management tasks should know how to accomplish them beforehand and every business can benefit from documenting a site's custom features.

• Explaining an overview of the website's procedures for your staff.
• Sections for every discrete task, displayed in a logical order.
• Written for non-technical users by expert technical writers.

Charges and guarantees

The open source license states that free software comes without legal guarantees. WordPress, MediaWikii and Drupal have large problem-solving developer communities, but are not suitable for corporates who want to hand responsibility for their website over to a third party. We implement your CMS correctly according to standard protocol, to present your custom look and functionality.

• Our fees include work done for themes, installation, administration and content management.
• We charge by the hour or on a per-piece negotiated basis.
• To install and theme a simple WordPress, MediaWiki or Drupal, with your provided art, on your server or a rented VPS, would cost $US320. Additional features negotiable at reasonable rates.

Contact us

Please email us at info@wikisetup.com

© Jack Henderson 2009-2012

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