Following up on our Q4 WEB Spring 08 Features blog post, I’m going to talk about Q4 Web’s ability to embed Google maps into your site. Google maps are quickly becoming a standard method for displaying maps on websites.

What is Google Maps?
Google Maps is a Google service offering powerful, user-friendly mapping technology and local business information—including business locations, contact information, and driving directions. You can find out more about Google maps here

Ok, great. So what can I do with Google maps
Googles maps are quickly becoming a standard method for displaying various types of map related information on company websites. Some examples of how Google maps can be useful on your site are:

• Display a map to your corporate offices
• Show a map of your operations (see a great example on the Baffinland Iron Mines website)

In addition to the basic mapping data, administrators can also tag locations with additional information regarding the location that is tagged on the map. Website users can view satellite images of your mine areas as well as topographical images providing them more insight into your companies operations.

How can I get Google maps functionality on my site?
We think this is a great new feature and we hope you do to! If you would like more information on how you can integrate Google maps functionality in your site send us an email to support@q4websystems.com or give us a call at 416-626-7829 (press 2 for support) and we’ll be happy to help you integrate this new feature.

I read a great article on CMS Watch today that talked about migrating website content for a client when migrating to a new CMS system.

The author speaks about the inevitable awkward moment of the implementation process when someone pipes up and says “uh, what about the content?”

As part of our implementation service, we specifically bring this up with clients during the project’s kickoff.  We make it very clear that we will handle all the content migration and we also use the migration as an opportunity to train the client using some real-world examples.   The training happens on-site and right before our pre-production launch activities so the timing is perfect and the client is ready to use the tool by the time they go live.

We’ve always taken the approach that we’re not only selling a product, but we’re selling a service and do everything we can to make the migration to our platform as simple and seamless as possible to the client.

In addition to Q4 WEB providing accurate website records for Bill 198 compliance to reduce your risk surrounding corporate disclosure we also do all the little things that set our company apart from the sea of CMS companies out there.

I’ll be following up with some additional posts about our implementation process in general and other steps we take to manage migrations.