FatWire's FirstSite Provides the Tools and Techniques for a Fast and Cost-Effective Implementation

It's a fact: Many content management projects are expensive to implement, disruptive to the organization, and prone to failure. Yet FatWire Content Server has been deployed successfully at over 400 customers for a wide range of solutions: corporate Web sites, product marketing sites, partner extranets, and employee intranets to name a few.
To help immunize customers from potential problems, FatWire offers FirstSite, which leverages the experience and best practices of our many successful customers. FirstSite is a quick-start program that includes a collection of standard templates and site components that are common to most sites, combined with documentation, training, a rich developer community, and a best practices methodology. FirstSite helps ensure that your site is implemented the right way, right away.

Start with the Right Foundation
FirstSite provides the core delivery templates, caching, navigation, and site layout components common to most sites. FirstSite allows you to get the first initiative running quickly while providing a solid foundation for future expansion and enhancements. FirstSite comes with a developer's guide that explains the basic concepts of how to build solutions that leverage Content Server's core strengths, such as dynamic delivery, caching, publishing, navigation, and product catalogs.

Leverage a Common Architecture
FirstSite was architected by FatWire's experienced Professional Services team to follow best practices. The asset structures, naming conventions, and coding methodology are components of a time-tested approach to successful implementations. This foundation provides a basis to create scalable, repeatable, and robust solutions for your business challenges.

Learn by Example
The FirstSite approach shortens the deployment cycle for a new project and allows users to become familiar with the system quickly. Developers can use the code in FirstSite with only cosmetic alterations to successfully implement a first site, while at the same time learning how to add advanced features like personalization.

Get the Most Out of Training
FirstSite leverages the core lessons provided in FatWire's training and education programs. Likewise, the training curriculum contains examples drawn from FirstSite, so that developers are constantly benefiting from a familiar framework.

Get on the Clear Path to Success
FatWire's "Clear Path to Success" methodology helps companies lower the risk of their enterprise content management deployments. By providing core site requirements and an architecture that can scale over time, FirstSite allows you to move quickly from an initial deployment to dozens or hundreds of sites and content-centric applications supported by Content Server.

Join the Community
FatWire's developer site provides a collection of resources such as developer guides, code samples, Solution Modules, and more, all provided in the familiar FirstSite context.