SqooDriver CMS

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The SqooDriver Content Management System (CMS) is an information management toolkit that allows the construction of complex, function-rich websites coupled with straightforward management capabilities.

  • Simple: From the editors point of view everything is kept simple, straightforwards and logical. Only a small number of actions are used to manage the site whatever the functionality. Management and editing tasks can easily be taught within 15 minutes, and the skills required are easy to pass on, no need for external training or complex manuals. The editing system is kept information focused; design, layout, structural and navigational elements are handled automatically thus encouraging consistency and removing some of the more fiddly and frustrating tasks that an editor normally performs, making things look right.
  • Flexible: Rather than using a modular structure as most traditional content management systems do (a gallery, a contact form etc.); SqooDriver has been built as a toolkit for managing information at a lower granular level. So unlike systems such as Joomla or Wordpress where the theme selection and modules available dictate the look or feel of a site, a more holistic approach can be taken resulting in exactly the required information being displayed in the right format.
  • Extensible: Unusual or bespoke functionality can be added without adverse effects that sometimes blight such systems, for example adding organisational workflow to the editor, or communication with proprietary systems. SqooDriver has been built using industry standard components such as PHP and MySql to ensure that SqooDriver built systems are futureproof.
  • Portable: Data is held in a format that is easy to port and other developers should have no problem in understanding and adapting the system should that be required as the code that is unique to each site has been kept straightforward and well organised.  New versions of the software have been made to be backwards comapatible ensuring that updates can be made with minimum disruption.
  • Retrofittable: SqooDriver can produce output exactly as required so it is as suited to reproducing the legacy non compliant HTML of an older design as it is outputting modern W3C valid code.  It can therefore be used to retrofit a content management system on an existing site as readily as a new build.

SqooDriver runs on PHP with MySql on Linux servers, no special setup is required beyond a standard LAMP installation