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Bika CMS

Web portal content management services and hosting by Bika Lab Systems from Cape Town. Cutting edge Plone open source technology

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Add-on CMS functions

e-Mail hosting

Search engine marketing

Traffic analysis

Domain admin

More about CMS and Plone

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From simple interactive websites, or customised with tools for on-line newsletters, shopping trolleys and payment, blogs, document management, internationalisation, knowledge centres, and LIMS of course

Email and domain administration, search engine optimisation, web marketing and statistics, electronic mailing lists and archives by Google

Want to know more about Plone or Content Management Systems?

Plone came out tops in a study of 40 CMS products, both open source and proprietary, and organisations as diverse as NASA, Oxfam, eBay, Nokia, Novell and the CIA use Plone for content management

Please contact us at info@bikalabs.com for more information
on our content management services


Hosting	Prices exclude VAT
Set-up Plone site, colour scheme creation, branding with company logo	R750
Monthly 1 GB transfer per month · R0.15 per MB thereafter 1 GB disk space · R0.15 per MB thereafter 1 wild carded domain	R300 per month
Training 2-4 Hours recommended Standard Plone and Plone product management and use	R500 per hour

Content Management Services Optional. After training clients are able to manage sites themselves Upload of existing content or previous website. Image manipulation and optimisation	R300 per hour
Support User support and help desk	R500 per hour
Development and Customisation	R500 per hour
Optional add-ons · Plone products
Excluding customisation and migration	Set-up
Plone HelpCentre The Help or Knowledge Centre contains, amongst others, sections for FAQs, Manuals, How To documents, Tutorials, Instruction videos, Glossary and Links	R750
Plone SoftwareCentre The software centre is a product that aids the managing of software projects through roadmaps, releases, and help centre per software project	R750
LinguaPlone for multilingual sites Manage and maintain multilingual content seamlessly in Plone. LinguaPlone adds flags for translations available and tools for easy translation of content. More then 50 languages supported	R750
PloneGazette Newsletter tool Create and distribute newsletters and aggregated content from your site to a subscribers list. On-line registration and maintenance of subscribers and newsletter archives	R1750
Quills Blogging Create and maintain blogs - web logs - in your Plone site	R750
Mail
Hetzner micro · 20 mailboxes, 50 MB disk space, 5 GB transfer Hetzner micro-pro · 50 mailboxes, 150 MB disk space, 10 GB transfer Set-up Ad-hoc mail administration	R 228 per annum R 468 per annum R 75 / mailbox R 500 / hour

Web based marketing and analysis	Set-up
Advertising · Google AdSense Deliver text-based Google ads relevant to your site's content. Earn money	R 1500
Referral set-up · Optional	R 750
Search engine advertising · Google Adwords Reach people when they are searching for information about your products and services in Google, and send visitors directly to what you are offering	R 2 750
Web statistics · Google Analytics
Set-up Learn which on-line marketing initiatives are cost effective and see how visitors actually interact with your site	R 1250
Administration and management	R 500 / hour
Electronic mailing list and archives	Set-up
Google Groups Easy communication for members of an organisation, per email or on-line. Web portal and archives	R 1750
Domain administration
Initial registration Annual re-registration Domain transfer Ad hoc administration Annual registrar fees .co.za .com .org .net .info .biz .co.uk .de .eu	R 350 R 250 R 350 R 500 / hour R 50 R 150 R 200

Plone content management systems

What is a CMS?

A content management system, or CMS, is a web application designed to make it easy for non-technical users to add, edit and manage a website.

CMS also takes care of a lot of "behind the scenes" work such as:

Automatically generate navigation elements

Making content searchable and indexable

Keeping track of users, their permissions and security settings

And much, much more

Lets You Write

Plone includes a powerful editor with text formatting, image and link insertion. If you're used to office suites, you'll feel right at home

Outstanding Search Engine Visibility

Standards compliance keeps search engines happy and Plone sites consistently rank best on Google

Instant, Full-text Searching

All content is immediately searchable, even Word and PDF documents. LiveSearch updates search results as you type, try the search box above for a demo

World-class Support

Through online documentation, mailing lists, chat rooms, books - or the services of the hundreds of companies that support Plone - you're never alone

Powerful Workflow Engine

Make your business processes part of your document workflow — complemented by fool-proof security

Everybody Loves Plone

“A Labs Analyst's Choice award winner, this open-source product is one of the best solutions — period ” eWeek, April 2006 issue

Plone.net - The Plone network, examples

Plone.org - Plone Community website

Plone Products

Plone Demonstration Movies

Content Management Systems
How they scored in evaluation at CMSwatch.com
Plone 4, Clickability -1, CrownPeak -2,  Fatwire -3,  Day -4, HotBanana -4
MediaSurface -4, EPiServer -5, Hannon Hill -5, Midgard -5, Oracle -5
RedDot -5, Tridion -5, e-Spirit -6, Ektron -7, Escenic -7, PaperThin -7
Serena -7, CoreMedia -8, eZ Systems -8, Ingeniux -8, Interwoven -8
Percussion -8, Refresh Software -8, eZ Publish -9, Immediacy -9, Typo3 -9
TerminalFour -10, WebSideStory -10, GOSS -11, Drupal -12, Enonic -12
IBM -12, Documentum -13, Joomla! -13, SiteCore -13, Vignette -13
OpenCMS -14, Microsoft -15, Alfresco -16

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