Developing a website with database publishing functionality
Posted: Fri May 27, 2016 12:50 pm
I have been tasked with bringing in a new website and a supporting app for our organisation to improve the display of and interaction with our products and to improve the overall user experience. Edit: I'm project managing the process and not doing any technical development.
This is my first foray into this kind of project and since I have little knowledge of web-development and content management systems I could really benefit from some advice from those in the know to help me start on the right foot, reach out to the right developers and best ensure we end up with a good quality product that meets our needs.
What we need
I’ll go into more detail about our needs and the general development questions I have below, but, in simple terms, we are after 3 things:
What we want the website to do
General development questions
Though more questions will no doubt come to mind, any advice you can provide would really help me get this off the ground! Many thanks for your time
This is my first foray into this kind of project and since I have little knowledge of web-development and content management systems I could really benefit from some advice from those in the know to help me start on the right foot, reach out to the right developers and best ensure we end up with a good quality product that meets our needs.
What we need
I’ll go into more detail about our needs and the general development questions I have below, but, in simple terms, we are after 3 things:
- 1) A new website – that is easy to update and modify as our remit grows
2) The ability, on part of the website, to publish content comprised of component sections that are stored in a database (is this a feature of a content management system (CMS)?)
3) A supporting app for iOS and Android (not of the full website, just for one (or more) product(s) that would benefit from mobile device accessibility, even with no data connection)
What we want the website to do
General development questions
Though more questions will no doubt come to mind, any advice you can provide would really help me get this off the ground! Many thanks for your time