My favorite web application to come out of Silverscape is our content management system, Common Goal Web Manager. I am somewhat biased in my preference for it since I played a major role in the development of our current version and its always a pleasure knowing that many clients are using something I wrote lots of code for to update their web sites every day.

There are, of course, arguments both for and against going with a proprietary CMS like ours as opposed to an open source solution, but its really a no-brainer for us. I am not bashing any of the open source solutions, as I've used a number of them successfully in the past and they serve certain purposes well. The reason we put our clients on our CMS is because of the control we have over it.

Silverscape is a company focused on both technology and design, and to compromise either would be a real failure on our part. With our CMS, we can customize it to meet any design need or user experience need that one could imagine. If we used a third party CMS, we would inevitably find ourselves hitting the wall on how far we could go with our designs and our user experiences.

Despite what you may think, the purpose of this blog is not actually to sell you on CGWM (though if you'd like a demo, contact us!).

Instead, I wanted to briefly mention that we have been working dilligently on a new version of CGWM and we're very excited about the new features and new design. We're bringing in some of the best things we've developed for it in the past year or two, such as our blog application (which is fully integrated with all the social media sites you use right now), our Common Goal E-Commerce system, many UI and performance enhancements, and some surprises for when we officially release it.

Stay tuned!