Business Mobile World

Work is continuing on our group website UK mobile phone deals. As blogged previously we have been experimenting with a content management system (CMS) to make it easier for us to update the site remotely.

We originally tried Joomla, which was easy to install and get up and running. However, it was a little counter-intuitive, not easy to use for a beginner, although it might have become easier with a bit of practice.

However, what finally led us to abandon this system was the implementation of search engine friendly urls. When we turned them on within the software it caused a number of problems. Despite much research on the internet we were unable to solve these problems.

It looks like our Windows based server was the problem. Many users running Windows encountered similar problems. Rather than migrate all of our sites to another server we decided to look for a Windows-friendly CMS.

After a bit of research we came across MojoPortal. After download it was a big package to unzip and upload and installation didn't go without a hitch. However the problem was that the server was running an old version of ASP.NET. Once it was updated to the 3.5 Framework the program installed itself without a hitch.

Getting started was made easier by the online video tutorials which guided us through the set up stage and the interface is very user friendly. We haven't done much with it so far, you can see it in action at http://www.ukmobilephonedeals.co.uk/index.aspx.

We are currently experimenting with what it can do and will ultimately be looking at using our own templates to get a website design that better suits the subject matter (business mobiles).

Once we are completely happy with the new site it will go live and then we will look at implementing similar systems on our main site, 21C Telecom, due for relaunch in 2010.