Websites for research and academia
Wordpress is an impressive platform that offers so much more than blog-capabilities.
There are plugins that provide forums, calendars, member profiles and RSS feed imports, to name just a few. The ability to easily customise the front page and the ability to define a mix of static and dynamic pages as well as easily customise navigation menus and widgets means that you can pretty much create any type of website in a matter of hours. Coupled with the amount of professional looking free or paid-for themes that are available for download - it becomes an offer you can't afford to ignore.
To the client this means that they get
- a professional looking wesite
- a website with advanced features and that is secure
- a website where they have complete control over the content
- a website that works extremely well from a search-engine point of view
- a website based on a widely used open-source platform written in the popular language PHP
- and last but not least a website that is very cheap.
For these reasons we are currently developing a site based on Wordpress for a research initiatve at the University of Cambridge. The website will be used to provide some static informational pages describing the research initiative, to publish news and events, pull in some RSS feeds and have a member register and a community forum in order to promote interworking between groups at the University.
All these capabilities can be delivered within a week and at a very low budget thanks to the stability and extensibility of the Wordpress platform.
If you have any thoughts or queries about how we could offer the same for you - please don't hesitate to get in touch.