Media and Publishing CMS Development
In the media and publishing world, every minute matters. Custom CMS we develop accelerates the content workflow and publishing process and introduces ad management enhancements.
Every industry needs a different approach to website development. Having over a dozen years of experience in building content management systems for publishers, we know what features and solutions work best. It applies to new projects, existing systems, hosting, and integrations.
Custom Content Management Systems
We’ll start by getting to know your content creation and management processes and collecting requirements for the future platform. Then we’ll design it and plan its architecture, considering the vast possibilities of Thunder, a tool based on Drupal CMS and intended for the media and publishing industry. After the development phase, we’ll implement the publishers’ CMS in your company and train your team in using it.
CMS migration
Do you have CMS performance issues or encounter some limitations? We can migrate your platform to Drupal - a fast, scalable, mobile-friendly, and secure content management software. Due to its flexibility, we can develop many functionalities tailored to your business needs. We often handle migrations from other systems as well as from different versions of Drupal (e.g. from 7 to 10), so we know how to plan and smoothly conduct such a process.
CMS support and optimization
For the existing publishing CMS systems based on Drupal, we can conduct an audit to identify bottlenecks, performance and SEO-related issues, and other errors. Once we gather our findings and improvement suggestions, we can implement them on your website. Besides one-time analysis, we also offer regular care of your website, which includes fixing bugs, performing security updates, and adding new functionalities.
Hosting solutions for publishers
The websites for publishing articles, and other types of publishers’ platforms, face high traffic spikes, e.g. when the editors add some groundbreaking content. We know how to choose and configure a reliable hosting solution to keep the website up and running, even in the most challenging conditions. After the implementation, our DevOps team can still look after your hosting by uptime monitoring and carrying backups.
Ad management solutions
We can integrate your CMS with an ad server, like Revive Adserver, OpenX, or Google Ad Manager, that enables serving advertisements and managing campaigns. For displaying the ads on your website, we can also create a form inside your publishing CMS in which you determine the page and position for showing a particular ad, set the displaying dates, upload the graphic or animation, and add the link to the target place.
Media and marketing tools integration
Various tools support work in the media and publishing industry. We know how to properly integrate your CMS platform with many of them, like marketing automation tools (e.g. HubSpot), analytical solutions (e.g. Google Analytics), or social media channels. The latter integration will allow for automatically adding a post on your content published in the CMS on Facebook after you click a button under a chosen article.
Media and Publishing CMS Features
Drupal and its distribution Thunder provide a wide range of functionalities that we can use to develop a custom content management and publishing platform. Below you’ll find some of the possible features of your future software.
Ready-made content elements
Usually, media and publishing teams need a set of specified components for their content so they can select them and fill them with text and media. Together with your team, we can determine which content elements are most often needed. We can develop, for example, the sections to embed related articles, Twitter posts, ads, audio, and video. We can also prepare a complete editable paragraph with a predetermined look and feel.
Ecommerce functionalities
The publishers’ CMS may need the features not only for adding and managing content but also for selling some products like books. The ecommerce functionalities we can implement allow for selling physical and electronic items such as ebooks and online magazines. Your users would easily find the products by browsing the catalogs and categories or by using filters.
CMS for publishers and media - case studies
For years, we’ve been advising and helping media and publishing companies in developing their existing content management systems. We’ve also been creating custom software from scratch. Thanks to this, we got to know these industries very well. We understand their challenges and needs and know solutions that perfectly answer them. Take a look at some of the projects we completed.
For the news magazine Zawsze Pomorze, we created custom CMS, based on a Drupal distribution Thunder that is aimed at professional publishing. This choice reduced implementation cost and provided our customer with top-class functionalities. We also integrated the CMS with the ad server and suggested the best hosting solution that handles traffic spikes on a news website.
We supported the WAM publishing house team in developing the ecommerce website for selling traditional books, ebooks, and audiobooks. We implemented the Drupal Commerce module that enables users to send the purchased product as a gift and added a new shipment method. We also integrated the platform with the Freshmail email marketing system.
We created the headless CMS system for The Polish Football Association. The solution feeds three websites and internal systems with data. The CMS consists of ready-made components destined for certain pages. The editors use them for articles, like match descriptions, that need to have a similar look and elements every time.
We choose open source tools for our projects. As their source code is available for everyone, we can modify them to meet the specific needs of the media and publishing industries. Having a base to work with reduces the implementation cost. Also, the fact that open source code is accessible to everyone implies that there's no vendor lock-in. It means that when you don't like collaboration with one software development company, you can choose other experts.
Thunder is a CMS based on Drupal equipped with the features most suitable for media and publishing companies.
Drupal is a flexible and secure content management system for building websites of any size.
Drupal Commerce is a solution for developing ecommerce websites selling both traditional and electronic products.
Mautic is a marketing automation tool that enables collecting readers' data and using it to provide better experiences.
Media and publishing content on our blog
Take a look at our articles with tips, tricks, and good practices for media and publishing companies.
