Rockford Linear Motion, a subsidiary of Rockford Ball Screw, has just launched their first ever online presence at www.rockfordlinearmotion.com. The site is powered by Adobe® ColdFusion® and Microsoft® SQL Server with content being managed by Mura CMS, a comprehensive web-based content management system. Rockford Linear Motion offers a fully customizable lineup of linear guide rail systems, products and services.

This was my first "commercial" web site constructed to be managed by Mura CMS. I was able to take our designer's (Greg L.) completely customized design from Adobe® Illustrator® + Photoshop® to CSS + XHTML and then fully integrate this design with Mura. I was also able to leverage and extend much of Mura's functionality to achieve the final result.

At the client's request, we also integrated the custom design with two other third-party vendors including Catalog Data Solutions and Network Solutions CommerceSpace™. Needless to say, I learned quite a bit about working with each of these vendors and look forward to working with them again.

Amazingly, we were able to launch the site within three (3) weeks of receiving the final design files for the site. As anyone who builds web sites would testify, this short of a timeframe is definitely not the norm. However, by utilizing Mura CMS and ColdFusion, we were able to get the job done in record time.

Congratulations to the folks at Rockford Linear Motion! Also, a huge thanks to each person who assisted me in keeping this project moving at light speed.

Designer: Greg L. | Developer: Stephen Withington | Content Management System: Mura CMS

If you haven't heard about Mura CMS yet, then you probably haven't been looking for a ColdFusion-powered content management system (CMS). The best part about Mura CMS is that fact that it's open source. Yep, that means free!

After poking around and actually building, then launching a site driven by Mura CMS, I became pretty hooked. So to help other developers who might be considering Mura CMS, I threw together a quick video tutorial on installing Mura.

As you can see, it's most definitely not rocket science. If you have any questions or suggestions, please don't hesitate to let me know!

Peace.

Here's the deal ... I will build you a ColdFusion + Mura CMS powered web site and all you have to do is buy me a guitar. Now, not just any guitar of course! One guitar in particular that's been on my wish list is a Gibson Les Paul. If you have one, or something of similar value, let me know! I'm sure we can work something out. Need to see some of my recent work? No problem. I've blogged about several of my web site projects.

Inspired by Kyle MacDonald and his "one red paperclip," I'm sure somebody out there needs a quality-built web site that they can have full editing capabilities of and is willing to make a trade.

Interested? Let's talk!