CMS Solutions

A Web Content Management System (WCM, WCMS or Web CMS) is content management system (CMS) software, implemented as a Web application, for creating and managing content such as HTML, but also including XML and SVG in particular. It is used to manage and control a large, dynamic collection of Web material (HTML documents and their associated images). A WCMS facilitates content creation, content control, editing, and essential Web maintenance functions.

Drupal is an open source content management system (CMS) written in PHP and distributed under the GNU General Public License. It is claimed to be used as a back-end system for at least 1% of all websites worldwide, ranging from small personal blogs to large corporate and political sites, including whitehouse.gov and data.gov.uk. It is also used for knowledge management and business collaboration.

Joomla! is an open source content management system platform for publishing content on the World Wide Web and intranets as well as a Model–view–controller (MVC) Web application framework. It is written in PHP, stores data in MySQL and includes features such as page caching, RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, news flashes, blogs, polls, search, and support for language internationalization.

Within its first year of release, Joomla was downloaded 2.5 million times. Over 5,000 free and commercial plug-ins are available for Joomla.

mambo is a mature, award winning, feature rich content management system used for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications.

eCommerce Solutions / Shopping Cart solutions

When it comes to eCommerce development Rising Star Multimedia has done it all. Our team has extensive hands on experience with the most common eCommerce applications on the market. Configuring complex php shopping cart applications is extremely time consuming so let our qualified team of experts get your next project off the ground.

Magento is a new open source ecommerce platform that handle all aspects of building and maintaining an ecommerce site including shopping carts, shipping, product reviews, and much more. Magento offers advanced catalog and shopping cart price rule systems right out of the box, allowing Store Owners to create and customize anything from store-wide markdowns to highly specific coupons tailored to specialized customer groups.

osCommerce is an online shop e-commerce solution under on going development by the open source community. Its feature packed out-of-the-box installation allows store owners to setup, run, and maintain their online stores with minimum effort and with absolutely no costs or license fees involved. osCommerce combines open source solutions to provide a free and open e-commerce platform. It contains both a catalog frontend and an administration tool backend which can be easily installed and configured over a web-based installation procedure.

CubeCart is a fully featured ecommerce shopping cart solution written using PHP & MySQL. CubeCart is very powerful and easy to connect to various payment gateways. CubeCart currently comes with three skins which are bundled in the download package.The demo has Google Checkout enabled in “Sandbox” mode and the “Print Order Form”. The skin can be changed using the drop down menu which is either enabled or disabled on the admin side.

CRE Loaded is a fully functional shopping cart for Ecommerce sites. CRELoaded is built on the framework of OSCommerce .CRE has been refined and simplified a little though, so it is easier to customize, and easier to maintain long term. It is a flexible enough cart to handle stock/inventory tracking, multiple images per item, downloadable items, combinations of product types, it tracks customers and orders, and interfaces with a wide range of payment systems. This is a software driven shopping cart. That means it installs into the hosting space – your website is made of software instead of regular pages.

Zen Cart is a open source shopping cart system. When you are using Zen Cart and a product is added to the shopping cart, secure checkout is a simple 3-step process. After providing the billing information, your customer chooses the shipping method. (multiple shipping methods) Next, a payment type is chosen from one of the popular payment modules. Last, the customer reviews the order, shipping and payment choices, and confirms the order. You are immediately notified of the order and your customer automatically receives an e-mail confirmation.

VirtueMart is an Open Source E-Commerce solution (a Component or Plug-in) for the Joomla! and Mambo Content Management Systems. It can be run as a Shopping Cart, or in Catalog modeIt installs fairly easy using the automatic Component and Module Installer. It’s intended for use in small / mid-sized Online Businesses / Online-Shops. So every user who wants to build up a Online Store can use this Component for selling something to Customers.