MirageLab

MirageLab creates a holographic representation of your business. We project aspects of your organization onto the internet. To move at the speed of business, your business cannot continue to rely on the paper based forms and processes that characterized the previous century. MirageLab works to take your existing infrastructure and move it from the filing cabinet to the internet. Using best practices such as Open Source development, MirageLab endeavors to provide corporate intranet quality at small business brochure-site costs.

What is a Content Management System?

A CMS, or Content Management System is, of course, a system that manages content on your website. But more than that, it is the invisible backbone that gives you the ability to add/delete/change content and structure on your website without knowing any code; it allows others to ask questions, give their opinions, suggest links and submit articles for approval to populate your website; it is the dynamic flow that exists between author and visitor that makes it a living, breathing organism; it is what allows others to get to know who you are and what you are about; it enables individuals to buy into your vision and help expand it into something greater long before they decide to do business with you; it is the high-touch engine of your high-tech website.

'Faulkner Information Services conservatively estimates the entire market will develop to $65 billion by 2003 - hardly surprising as implementing a comprehensive CMS may cost $2m - $5m; more if it needs to integrate with other systems.'

Benefits you may be looking for:

• A dynamic website that can be easily maintained in-house by a non-developer.
• The ability to make additions and changes on the fly and react to market fluctuations at the speed of a decision.
• Entire websites or upgrades completed in weeks (or less) instead of months.
• The option to change the site design without affecting the content or structure.
• A portal for current and potential clients/customers to interact with you, your company and other clients and/or create a user community.
• A website that can be accessed by every department, every customer with every device (PC’s, PDA’s, kiosks) while giving each the right information and view according to their level of security.
• The ability to add functionality as you grow and your needs change with the use of simple “plug-in” technology without requiring constant upgrades.
• Technology that will satisfy all your needs while still being affordable!

Why a content management system?

Websites are content driven. What does this mean? It means that the more content you have on your website, the better.

You cannot have too much content. As information becomes dated, your content will continue to be relevant based largely on whether or not it is up to date. You may end up deleting or archiving older data, but you should never stop adding new content.

Are there any benefits to a lack of content?

Yes, there is.

The less content your site has, the less your web designer has to do.

Your website is content driven. Your web designer is the engine that drives your content. He may not want to go anywhere today...

But, you do. You have a dream or a vision that you want to see realized. You may be motivated to communicate something on your website RIGHT NOW!

Don't you wish that YOU were the driver sometimes? Wouldn't it be great if you had a manual transmission website that could perform the way a website should? How about if you had a big list of available parts to choose from? Does your website need to be high performance?

A Content Management System, or CMS, is the engine that drives high performance websites. Your local graphic designer may be able to build a website, but THEY are the engine. Your website is managed at the whims of an artist. Let your graphic designer be your website interior decorator or landscaper, but make sure you can manage your own content.