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By manager@ni247.com Published: 19/05/2009
A decade ago, people who wanted such a tool had three choices, all bad: a cheap but inflexible system, a versatile but expensive one, or one written from scratch. What was needed was something a platform for creating custom publishing environments. For Northern Ireland's users, that something is Ni247
Created as an open-source project by Ni247, Ni247’s site is a content management framework--a tool for customizing web pages quickly and easily, without sacrificing features or stability. Account owners can choose from a list of possible features: they might, say, want to publish articles, offer a Customized profile, or allow users to vote or comment on content. All these features are optional, and most are independent of the others.
With Ni247's high degree of individualization, users can escape cost without investing in completely custom-made creations, which can be time-consuming, costly, and hard to maintain. John Mulholland used Ni247 in 2007, and today it's used by Patton, the magazine Carsport & Northern Woman, among many others.
The diversity of its users has led to many improvements "The size, passion, and velocity of the Ni247 community makes incredible things happen." There are tens of thousands of active businesses province wide.
Since projects tend to attract expert users, they often lack clear user interfaces and readable documentation, making them unfriendly to mere mortals. But Ni247 understood from the beginning how important usability is to the cycle of improvement, adoption, and more improvement that drives the development of Ni247. The core ni247 accounts come with help files. The central team regularly polls users (which is unusual in a project) to decide what to improve next. The process reveals not just features to add, but ones to update and ways to make existing features easier to understand.
Ni247 has also founded a company, Ccsnrg.com & Causewayit.com, to offer support, service, and custom development for Ni247 users, especially businesses. Which provide custom work and support for Ni247 users?
With Ni247 version 4, due later this year, Ni247 hopes to include technologies that will make Ni247 a vision for making online advertising easy for all.
manager@ni247.com
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