Website Migration to Open Source TYPO3 CMS

Website Migration to Open Source TYPO3 CMS

http://www.ashi-software.com/blog/open-source/typo3/website-migration-to-open-source-typo3-cms/Migrating your existing website or web application to newer system could be one of the most arduous, challenging and confusing tasks for the most of us. Specifically, when you know that in today's market place there are numerous options available and each of these options would claim that they are the best. For all those users or system administrators wanting to Migrate to probably something like an Open Source CMS as an options, the first underlying question would be " What is the need and what are the factors for the same ". Some of the needs and factors in a nutshell could be:

• Your current system offers less flexibility when it comes to making frequent changes to website contents or making some enhancements like adding modules, components.
• Your existing custom built CMS system does not offer the flexibility and simple tasks are more complicated to handle within the current system.
• Technical barriers.
• Not compliant with the web standards and difficulty in marketing specifically while doing SEO.
• Need to change the Templates frequently.

With the variety of options that are available today in the Open Source CMS world, TYPO3 offers an excellent flexible, structured and user friendly system. It has an excellent self administered back end system that offers you a complete independence from having a support team or a technical development team. It is well structured and all the sections are well defined for the users. You need not worry on the aspects of making frequent changes to your site or any kind of site maintenance. Back end system can easily be learnt and is simple to use after a small training or short know how. The Admin section, allows user to change the information as and when they want.

For simple and static sites or say even in the case of dynamic pages of your website, the migration time from your existing site to the new TYPO3 CMS is very quick. There are various reason for the quick migration as TYPO3 Open Source CMS comes with a huge repository of more than 3400 + extensions or in common terms like modules or components - plug & play type. Most of your requirements are met through these TYPO3 extensions. You just need to fit in these TYPO3 extensions, customize further based on your needs and your site or application becomes ready to launch over the web. It's that simple. So with TYPo3, migrating your old site to new CMS could be just a few clicks away and zoom....your site is ready to be placed on internet.

There is nothing to loose and more to gain not only for the site owners but also for the end users. Planning to migrate your site to TYPO3 CMS or if you need to have TYPO3 extension development or customization, then you can visit us.

The author of this article has been involved with various TYPO3 CMS developers for last 3 years with an special affinity for TYPO3 Open Source CMS in India.