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This page is an introduction to Promarkit and provides links to more information. We are currently developing two websites to promote (for entities seeking web applications) and document (for developers who wish to utilize the source code) Promarkit.
Promarkit IS an open source code base written primarily in PHP for implementing a web desktop and website managment system for managing and implementing other web applications and the websites where it is installed. The flexibility and power of Promarkit lies in it's framework concept where all front-end html output is completely custom to every installation, while providing a common interface for administering the system, but even the back end admin system can be completely custom to the installation.
Promarkit IS NOT a ready-to-go web application system. Unlike "boxed" shopping cart systems that can be downloaded/purchased and installed for immediate use. Promarkit is a custom system that requires a qualified developer to setup and utilize.
Currently Promarkit is used by clients of [ i ] motion design and our partners, including auto parts retailers, paper and packaging distributors, children's educational consultants, restarants, artists, art galleries, photographers, corporate and personal protection companies, and animal suppliers. While the code base is open source we have not opened the project to the general public at this time. Interested developers should review the licensing pages and contact us directly for more information.
Promarkit is intended for you use by individuals, organizations, and companies seeking a serious solution to unifying, managing, and presenting data online that is extendible with new applications and external systems with interoperability between applications.
Promarkit is for those entities that require a unified interface for managing website content, running an online store, presenting online image galleries, dynamic article library and informational presentation, and other features vital to maintaining a rich internet presence for their visitor. Promarkit is for those entities that require a more powerful custom interface, with the convenience of "turn-key" and "boxed" solutions with a more customized and extensible system and presentation
It is important to understand that Promarkit is not a "boxed" system that may be purchased, installed, and setup by the average website owner. It is a code base and framework for the rapid implementation of a custom solution. In order to take full advantage of the system installation, configuration, and customization requires a qualified developer.
In your search for a web developer and online presence, you may have seen many companies selling shopping carts or CMS systems. There are any number of systems out there both free and paid that offer means to deliver dynamic content and sell things online. And you could say that Promarkit is just another one of these systems. The difference with Promarkit is that it is as much a development framework as a read-to-go system.
Promarkit uses a library of code and database structure to rapidly develop your custom web presence. This is the framework aspect of the system.
The front end web site (DISPLAY STYLE) is completely custom to your needs when using Promarkit. Once Promarkit is installed and data is being managed in the administrative back end there is no limit to the ways the data can be presented, combined, aggregated, and otherwise made useful to your web site visitors.
Promarkit as a web desktop comes from the standard administrative interface that comes with any installation of Promarkit. By providing a unified way of managing, storing, and collecting data internally, you are provided the tools to optimize productivity and easily add features, tools, and services to your web presence for your web site visitors.
What this boils down to you is that you are not locked in to any specific means of delivering and presenting your data based on proprietary formats and clunky templates like other CMS or shopping systems. Promarkit is a robust, fully customizable, and extensible framework that is custom tailored with every installation for your unique online needs.
Promarkit is a core set of libraries and functionality that we install on your php enabled server.
Once installed, we can then rapidly deploy a massive dynamically controlled web site. How rapidly? Well that fact is the graphic design (deciding and designing how your site will look and flow) will take longer than actually having a functional online store. With your full participation most sites, of any size and scope, can be concieved, designed, and ready to launch in one week. That means you can potentially be launching your new website, selling products, and offering new services a 1-3 weeks after your project is approved.
The Promarkit core controls all the standardized, ready-to-go administrative functions. The front-end public site is then custom coded to utilize the functionality of Promarkit in a way that makes sense for your project. There is not a special template that need be used or modified with proprietary syntax. Promarkit harnesses the power of PHP and mySQL and a bevy of standard open source libraries and custom functions to get the job done fast and right.
Once the Promarkit core is installed on one of your domains, we can add new applications, functionality, and control to any other website you operate by updating the original configuration and dropping in some PHP code to access the new content, application, or website.
The Promarkit administrative interface actually lets you control, edit, and maintain multiple websites from a single interface. Update products, page text, gallery images, etc... for as many websites as you operate.
Maybe you have multiple businesses, or maybe you want to launch product specific sites, but don't want the headache that normally goes with maintaining multiple web sites. Promarkit allows you to do this easily for every domain we setup and configure.
Maybe you need something that doesn't exist in Promarkit already. From the simplest to the most advanced need we can add custom modules that will make your life easier and your customer's lives better. We can even create custom applications to offer unique services for vertical markets.
Promarkit is part of an intranet solution. The Promarkit web desktop and applications can be used to automate or simplify business processes that you and your staff do everyday. Maybe you could use a custom sales/calling tracking system that integrates with existing online customers. Maybe you could use a special interface for sales people to email documents in your Promarkit Content Library to customers automatically.
The idea behind Promarkit is to have a framework of getting at and maintaining data. Not a dogmatic method, but a dynamic one. Promarkit is designed to collect, manipulate, and deliver information. You just need to tell us how you want that to happen.
While we have not yet released the code to third party developers at this time, the code is open source and available for any customization. When you get an [ i ] motion Promarkit Powered website you are paying for the installation and customization of it. With other systems you are either locked in to specific template formats and functionality or after buying and installing the system you still need to pay someone to make it look like your own custom design. With Promarkit each installation is unique, and you are really paying for the uniqueness of your installation, not the system itself.
Likewise when you ask for updates to your system, we often have to update your Promarkit core at the same time. Because of our business model and the open source nature of Promarkit that translates to getting to getting every bug fix, patch, update that has been written for every other person who uses Promarkit as well.
Like a computer operating system Promarkit functionality comes from the individual applications installed. Only the ones you need are installed and enabled to make administration simple.
See our pricing page.