OMPA Thanks Concrete5
When the OMPA marketing committee sought out a content management system for OMPA.org, they were pleased to find a "top 20" CMS developer within their own city limits. "A CMS is the only way to drive a website these days," says Lyla Foggia, chair of OMPA's marketing committee, "especially if you want to keep your content from growing stale."
There is no lack of fresh news about and ideas for this association that organizes and informs Oregon's commercial, film and TV industry. The workflow to get news to the website however was too tedious to be regularly maintained.
"OMPA has been fortunate to have had a series of board members from the website industry who have been able to help maintain a current presence on the web," says OMPA Executive Director Tom McFadden. This time, boardmember Robert Lewis clued the OMPA into Concrete5. Concrete5 is an open source content management system. OMPA contrated with the developer, Franz Maruna of Concrete5 Inc, to create templates that mirrored the look of their existing site.
"Franz made it incredibly easy for us to re-build our site within a CMS framework. Concrete5 is easy enough to use that we could have built the templates ourselves, but we were extremely pleased to contract Franz to do it. Once that was delivered, we uploaded all the content from our existing site in about a day," says McFadden. "It is pretty incredible, and adding content to the website is not much more challenging than working with a word processor. In fact, I loaded the News section, along with the first story, in less than 20 minutes."