Remember when you had to use good ol' fashioned email to communicate with your friends? And you had to actually customize your messages to your friends?!  Facebook has changed the way we socially interact with our network of friends. Lucky for me it's my job to know the latest social marketing trends so "researching" online is perfectly legit as is building up my network of "friends". I have 133 "friends" on Facebook. I'm actually shocked that I know more than 100 people. In the past week, I have accepted friend requests from a former co-worker, a high school friend, and someone I vaguely remember meeting at a house party a few weeks ago. To accept or not to accept the friend request? Well, it's just polite etiquette to accept, right? What if I run into my cousin's husband's coworker again and I rejected his friend request? Can you imagine the horror?! But then what happens when you're "facebook friend" wants to take it to the next level?

Here at Delphic Sage our web site projects are generally larger scale. For these projects, we either tend use our code base to create a custom Content Management System based on Microsoft .NET or for enterprise size projects we usually recommend packaged CMS solutions like Sitecore.

But sometimes, these solutions are just overkill. Smaller clients with simple web site needs or marketing campaigns that need a supporting microsite demand a simpler solution. For these situations we are using Wordpress as a CMS.

Wordpress is a LAMP (Open Source) based solution whose foundation is as a blogging engine. You can run it on a Windows server (though it has minor some issues that are supposed to be resolved with new Microsoft Server) or preferably on Linux/Apache. With Wordpress as a CMS you can still create really engaging visual designs with the power a data-driven engine that makes upkeep much easier.

We're really excited about the redesign of the Gale International site. Gale International is a premier real estate development and investment firm with deep experience creating sustainable, city-scale and mixed-use developments across the globe. Much more good stuff to come too!