SilverStripe CMS

iBCScorp is a SilverStripe development company since mid 2007. Company’s well experienced expert SilverStripe developers able develop user friendly easy maintained CMS web applications to full fill customer requirements.

SilverStripe CMS was originally developed by SilverStripe Ltd a New Zealand web application development company. They open sourced their product knowing the benefits of open source software.  Since they made this move, a fast growing community has started to gather around SilverStripe.  Although it is relatively new player in CMS world, its popularity as a CME / CMS E-commerce solution is rapidly increasing.

Sapphire Web Framework

The power of SilverStripe lies on the Sapphire Web Framework.  Sapphire Web framework provides the underlying tools upon which the CMS system is built. The nice thing about SilverStripe being built on Sapphire is that it gives the developers the ability to rapidly extend the capabilities of the CMS and add new functionalities that don’t ship with the default set up. The methods of doing this are straight forward as they are defined by Sapphire and the coding convention keeps the site easy to read and understand; so long as it is followed. The Sapphire Framework is written in object oriented PHP.  Object Oriented PHP brings lot of good developing techniques and advantages with it like Code re-usability, reliability, robustness, extensibility, and maintainability.

Easy CMS

The SilverStripe CMS itself is very straight forward and easy to learn.  Even clients who have no previous CMS experience can pick it up quickly. Most of our clients once they login to the system, were able to use it without instructions. The reason for this is the flow of content editing is easy to understand and the admin UI provides whole lot of good features blend with AJAX which make people love to work with SilverStripe.

Eye catching web sites

Another good point we see in SilverStripe is it does not impose any restrictions on the template system. Like in some other CMS solutions it doesn’t limit your creativity when designing the front end template.

What kind of web sites it is best suited?

From our previous SilverStripe experiences we feel that it is best suited for small and medium sized web sites/ applications. It may be a personal web site, a company web site, a blog, or a small scale online web store.  SilverStripe can be used to built these sites quickly with the expected quality.  Also it provides a very flexible e-commerce system.

MVC Architecture in SilverStripe

Sapphire is an object oriented PHP5 web framework in SilverStripe. Sapphire’s MVC ( Model-View-Controller ) approach allows easily separate code from logic. It’s out of the box classes in Sapphire provide flexible approach to build form. Code is flexible and logical though CMS is very logical , and easily reusable.

Template Engine in SilverStripe

Silverstripe template engine helps to create dynamic templates easily. By doing simple modification to it’s css your silverstripe web site could have new look.SilverStripe not only a great and flexible CMS ,but it’s also has ecommerce module add online store to your business.

Our Work using SilverStripe

iBCScorp Creates Sunlight Studio website for Carolee Glaittli Artist and Photographer

Summary SunlightStudioArt.com is the personal web site we did for Carolee Glaittli (artists & photographer). She wanted to re-do her old web site with a new look and ability for her fans to purchase her work via this web site. We used: Silverstripe CMS, MySQL What we did: We developed a web site with CMS [...]

Which content management system?

From the start of our company, we have focused on specialized custom web development work mainly using open source technologies. Most of our work has been using popular Internet technologies including PHP, Cake PHP and Ruby on Rails. We have used these technologies successfully to deliver quality solutions from the ground up for the needs of our clients.