What is Colony?

Colony is a modular based website content management system allowing you to micro-manage details on every page to suit your requirements. A number of modules are pre-built and suit the needs of most clients. One of Colonies key strengths is its versatility and allows modules to be changed or created to exactly meet your needs.

Existing Modules

While any modules can be used on a Colony site some modules are more suited to a specific sector:

General

• Site Structuring - manipulate the order and position of pages within the site
• WYSIWYG (Rich text) Content editing
• News Articles
• Events
• Jobs advertising and application
• Polls
• Online Forums
• Newsletters and subscription management
• Useful Links (categorised into folders if required)
• Website statistics and tracking
• Document management and file downloads

E-Commerce

• Product Directory
• Shopping Basket & with transaction logging
• Members areas and password protection
• Discount and promotional codes
• Affiliate systems
• Banner management and click through tracking

Education

• Courses searching & application
• Student editing areas of the site
• Online prospectus applications

Bespoke Modules

Each client bring new requirements and needs to the table and through the years of development Colony has evolved to become truly flexible and customisable to meet the requirements.

Previous bespoke developments include:

• Advanced product categories and searches to allow engineers to search for screws to an accuracy of 0.1 mm
• Online shopping auctions in the same style as E Bay
• Online dating portals
• Mortgage rate management systems that update all references to interest rates across all website content throughout the site

To find out more about Colony please get in touch.