With kaidoo:CMS, kalbeck.media takes the line of a customized content management system. Content is not only published in this way, but is also staged according to its format, requirements and nature. Design, layout, and front-end features are flexible at the maximum while the specialized editing interfaces simplify the handling. Heterogeneous data sources can be both interpreted and integrated at will in order to not only be shown on the website, yet also as an app’s content in a single step.

Made to measure - from the basis to the final product

Individualized against prefabricated solutions

With experience, recognition and strong dedication, have turned years of work into products that presents a user-oriented alternative to the existing prefab solutions. As an individual home to digital content, kaidoo:CMS is faced with those prefabricated houses that offer full service for little money.

Integrated against sudden extra costs

At the point of purchase, these standardized solutions might appear to be at a favorable price, yet in the long run this usage can cost a company a large sum. Special requests are not feasible in association with high costs and efforts, or even not feasible at all – having to go without them in turn eliminates every unique selling point. So by not having a website that looks like everyone else’s in the town complex 2.0, kaidoo:CMS begins at the basis and provides flexibility on all levels.

Target-oriented against unnecessary complexity

Therefore, not only the user’s impression of looking at the website is important rather its performance, usability, and security for publishers, editors, and the IT department are also vital. Standardized solutions rapidly limit the fullest potential within these areas and reveal major deficiencies within three concrete sections.

The Top 3 dealbreakers related to a CMS

or: why web projects have to start from scratch over and over again, more often than needed.

• Exponential costs for adaption

There is normally a little cost incurred when installing and implementing a standard CMS. However, special solutions demand for a greater cost from the user, as the provider has to establish ways with the existing feature set and bad access to the basic technology as to find a very complex procedure of solution. kaidoo:CMS may be considered above the standardized solutions in terms of price at the start, however in combination with the minor efforts due to the efficient and precise implementation, the costs for the read-to-use tool are mostly comparable. Adaptions, extensions, and individualizations are easily and rapidly implementable by virtue of the diverse possibilities for integration.


• Design-normative template engines

As diverse as both the topics and design options of the standard CMS may actually be, they still are unable to reach the freedom of being capable to construct content differently. This includes pages that have been created with the same CMS and are quickly identifiable as such for the most part. Specific scopes for design are naturally not provided or available at a high price. The composition with the kaidoo:CMS is defined according to the individual project and, thus, works with potentials and chances that reappear and are ready to implement in the design right from the beginning.


• Minor willingness for integration

The compatibility with external data sources is not fully integrated in the nature of a CMS. For this reason, feeds and databases, or even real time data can only be integrated into the site deficiently. This is where kaidoo:CMS offers a large profit from the experience and the longstanding know how that has revealed the demands of practical work. In combination with kaidoo:data, the tool for data aggregation and integration allows for various possibilities of implementation for diverse data sets present within reach.



The kaidoo:CMS features at a glance:



The feature set of a CMS consist of technical, creative, and UX components that partially depend on each other and cater for a good feeling in a rather subtle manor. The features of kaidoo:CMS are therefore separated into target groups in order to demonstrate the most relevant aspects.


Visitor
Content
• fully customizable designs
• semantic content structures
• multi channel publishing

SEO
• SEO optimized and human-readable URLs
• automatic generation of Google sitemaps
• automatic content structuring (canonical tag)
• automatic redirects (prevention of duplicate content)

Performance
• acceleration of renderings via dynamic host name distribution
• automatic redirects for “dead” links

Design
• responsive layouts for desktop and mobile devices
• responsive resolution-based image loading
• hardware-accelerated animations for fluent presentations
• individual display for desktops and printers
• custom font renderer
• lightweight 3D

Front End Features
• rich content templates (parallax scrollers, vertical galleries, magazine grids, multilayer galleries a.o.)
• content representation components (CRC) for extended, client-side rendering logic of specialized types of content (catalogue, gallery, smart tables, search masks etc.)
• datadriven interface renderer (specific visualization from database values)
• touch- and gesture-optimized interfaces for app usage

Extendability / Customization
• L10N L10N (full multilingualism and unicode support)
Publisher
Content
• fully customizable designs
• entity based processing
• specialized editing interfaces for specific types of data
• rule-based processing of content (implicit and explicit)
• hierarchy-based processing
• multiple content areas per page for detailed design control
• semantic content structures
• multi channel publishing

SEO
• automatically generated and adaptable URLs
• SEO optimized and human-readable URLs
• individually adaptable URL structure
• automatic generation of Google sitemaps
• automatic content structuring (canonical tag)
• automatic redirects (prevention of duplicate content)/li>
• integration of analyzing systems (Google Analytics, Piwik etc.)
• page level meta descriptions and keywords
• alt-tag and link title access
• automatic logging and redirects for “dead” links

Performance
• acceleration of renderings via dynamic host name distribution
• minimization of http-requests by automatically summarizing content
• improved performance via browser cache control
• transparent data compression at delivery

Design
• responsive layouts for desktop and mobile devices
• responsive resolution-based image loading
• hardware-accelerated animation
• individual creation of image galleries
• automatic image scaling and thumbnailing
• individual display for desktops and printers
• rich content templates (parallax scrollers, vertical galleries, magazine grids, multilayer galleries a.o.)
• content representation components (CRC)

Usability
• no installation required
• integrated help
• on-site-training and ongoing customer support (soft implementation and learning on the live object)
• previewing from the back end
• integrated data manager with multi uploader
• digital asset management (DAM: storage, organisation and meta data-based search of graphic and multimedia data directly in the CMS)
• WYSIWYG editor with individual functions
• intuitive administration (drag & drop features)

Extendability / Customization
• L10N (full multilingualism and unicode support)
• integration of multilingual text blocks from databases
• individual modules (e.g. grids)
• individual interfaces (e.g. feeds)
• individual content administration (e.g. specialized tables)

Security / Access Control
• remote access (access to the system via secure web interface)
• multiple levels of approval and role-based management
• authorized access control (user access to authorized content that has been shared via privileges and roles from system administrators)
IT
Content Control
• dynamic template engine
• fully customizable designs
• hierarchy-based processing
• entity-based processing
• specialized editing interfaces for specific types of data
• full decoupling of content and design
• semantic content structures
• multi channel publishing

SEO
• automatically generated and adaptable URLs
• SEO optimized and human-readable URLs
• individually adaptable URL structure
• automatic generation of Google sitemaps
• automatic content structuring (canonical tag)
• automatic redirects (prevention of duplicate content)
• integration of analyzing systems (Google Analytics, Piwik etc.)
• page level meta descriptions and keywords
• alt-tag and link title access
• automatic logging and redirects for “dead” links

Performance
• distributed caching (memcached)
• load balancing via content delivery over CDN (content delivery network)
• acceleration of renderings via dynamic host name distribution
• minimization of http-requests by automatically summarizing content
• improved performance via browser cache control
• transparent data compression at delivery

Design
• responsive layouts for desktop and mobile devices
• responsive resolution-based image loading
• hardware-accelerated animations
• individual display for desktops and printers
• custom font renderer
• lightweight 3D
• rich content templates (parallax scrollers, vertical galleries, magazine grids, multilayer galleries a.o.)

Usability
• no installation required
• previewing from the back end
• integrated data manager with multi uploader
• digital asset management (DAM: storage, organisation and meta data-based search of graphic and multimedia data directly in the CMS)
• WYSIWYG editor with individual functions

Extendability / Customization
• multilingualism
• integration of fallback languages
• integration of multilingual text blocks from databases
• user-agent-based output-rendering (selection of content according to the knowledge about resolution, language, operating system, device model, location etc. of the user)
• dynamic entity management
• central administration of external data sources
• full unicode support
• individual modules (e.g. grids)
• individual interfaces (e.g. feeds)
• individual content administration (e.g. specialized tables)

Security / Access Control
• automatic hourly backups
• 24/7 server monitoring
• automatic security updates
• multiple levels of approval / role-based management
• remote access (access to the system via secure web interface)
• authorized access control (user access to authorized content that has been shared via privileges and roles from system administrators)
• full in-house code control without any external dependencies

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