Why Opstreams?

Our Information Technology Focus

Our primary focus is to be your information technology partner. If you have an info-tech staff, we w...

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Value: More Than a Website

At the same cost (or often lower) of a typical website, Opstreams gives you a powerful, modern onlin...

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Our Client Relationships

These may seem obvious, but are rarely committed to in the Information Technology industry: We li...

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Our Team and Process

Opstreams has a multi-disciplinary team of experts who complement each others skills. We use a ...

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Our Full-Web Marketing

Our Social Marketing delivers the greatest prospecting benefits per time-dollar. Google Adwords no l...

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Our Social Media

Our Social Media We were engaged by an expanding but low-key multi-use facility to understand new media and how best ...

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Segment Experience

Business and organization segments each have their specific online needs. Mis-matching needs with on...

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Info-Tech: Technology Alignment

Info-Tech: Technology Alignment Opstreams has several successful engagements with small to mid-size businesses on matching technolog...

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Info-tech: Workflows for Segments

Operational workflows need to be reflected in the site operations if you intend to go online. This i...

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Info-Tech: Systems Modeling

Info-Tech: Systems Modeling As experts in dynamical systems modeling and creating powerful business solutions, Opstreams is ofte...

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Compare Us

Compare a true business site from Opstreams versus a traditional website. The difference? We create an online business for you, not simply a website that does little to enhance your profits or customer experience. Our Joomla and Wordpress frameworks have become the gold standard of the industry, running 6% of the entire web, and we've been doing Joomla, Wordpress and Drupal exclusively since they first went public. The result for you? A site that will easily change with you as the technology and your business model changes, that will not grow obsolete, and that is easy to keep fresh because it's user-modifiable with no technical barriers.

In the chart, please note the key differences in true cost, developer and client roles, and clear functional expectations. Building a professional CMS site such as Joomla or Drupal requires a bit more thought and structure up-front, but pays off over time with ease of keeping the site fresh, flexibility for business and technology change, adding new features, and not being held hostage by technical "gurus". Thus, for almost the same price you'd pay for an equivalent traditional website, you can now afford a high-end content-managed site with virtually no risk of obsolescence, making every dollar of your investment more powerful.

Modern Site Frameworks

Best for SMO, 501c, function
Year 1 only obligation
DIY; site updates $12-40/hr.
Powerful extensions
Very good templates/looks
Free; Great community support
High-end database design, not pages; $
Wordpress CMS
Best for branding and blogging
Year 1 only obligation
DIY; site updates $12-40/hr
Weak extensions
Excellent templates/looks
Free; Excellent comm. support
High-end database design, not pages; $
Drupal CMS
Best for enterprise sites
Powerful results
Large learning curve; not DIY
Limited extensions
Mediocre templates/looks
Free; Very good comm. support
High-end database design, not pages; $$
Traditional HTML
Hard to use; pages coded
Lock-in to designer
Designers expect $60-90/hr.
Extensions = $$$
Templates from scratch
Nothing free; support scattered
No database; Labor-intensive; $$
Sitebuilder/Quicksite/Etc.
Best for amateur branding
Ongoing host lock-in
Easy to use, but canned
Cookie-cutter exts.
Cookie-cutter templates
No community; paid support
Data belongs to host - not good; $
.NET, Java, CF
Enterprises - large capex
Unlimited $$
Software engineers,no DIY
Extensions = $$$
Templates from scratch
Locked into development team
Closed access; high-end database; $$$