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Not All Code is Created Equal


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Have you ever been tasked with the burden of finding the perfect content management system (CMS) for your web site? You just might have found this blog post on the brink of abandoning your effort to select the perfect digital publishing tool. Whether your business is large or small, finding the right CMS is enough to drive any sane person insane.

How does one find the perfect tool for their web site? There are as many answers to this question as there are seconds in a minute, minutes in an hour, hours in a day...well you get the idea. Undoubtedly, you've stumbled across some of the larger content management systems in your quest for perfection. They've all bragged about how their software is on the cutting edge of technology and how their code is the best on the web. That sounds great sign me up! In all seriousness simply stating that your code is better than others is kind of like saying all men and women are created equal. True all men and women have the right to equal opportunity and privileges but not one human being is the same as another and much like humans not all code is created equal.

What makes Platformic code better than its competitors? Over 40 years combined development experience, a full service quality assurance team and the very best professional services department in the industry. There is more to Platformic code than experience and support however, there is a deeper sense of pride that comes from its creators. Platformic developers fight for their code and stand strong in the face of adversity. Never developing code just to feed their egos, clients can be certain that the code delivered by Platformic development is created with purpose and not just for fluff.

Is all code created equal? Hopefully by now you understand the answer to that question is no. However, if there is still any doubt check out some of the useful links above. Let a Platformic team member elaborate on the tip of the digital iceberg touched in this article. Best of luck in your search!
Below are just a few of our clients sites, built using the power of Platformic. Please click the thumbnails below for full size photos.
Here at the Platformic blog it's a pretty loose forum. While I don't really think that anyone is going to post a blog about their cats (well, maybe Eric might ...) we post about a range of stuff that might be of interest to a client of a CMS or someone looking to work on websites and although Platformic does not provide graphic design services we do work with a host of people who might be interested in graphics and for certain who at some times might use Photoshop so I wanted to share something that I learned today which blew me away (and I have been using Photoshop for 15 years now!)
Google recently announced that it has acquired a social RSS service called Postrank which is a huge indication of their commitment to their social strategy. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that this move is an indicator that social media and services continue to have a very big impact on the web as we know it today. The future will surely continue down the social road.

So what does Postrank do anyway? Here's a quote straight form their web site on the subject:

"Our platform tracks where and how users engage, and what they pay attention to — in real-time. PostRank social engagement data measures actual user activity, the most accurate indicator of the relevance and influence of a site, story, or author."
As sure as the sun will rise in the morning, your site users are going to end up hitting a 404 error page at some point or another. But what you provide them when they hit that pages can actually tell a lot about your site, and can help turn your what is technically a fail for the user into a win, if done properly.

By definition (remember when definition was pulled from encyclopedia rather than wikipedia? I guess I am dating myself somewhat here), a 404 page is:

"The 404 or Not Found error message is a HTTP standard response code indicating that the client was able to communicate with the server, but the server could not find what was requested. 404 errors should not be confused with "server not found" or similar errors, in which a connection to the destination server could not be made at all. A 404 error indicates that the requested resource may be available again in the future."