CMS Development
A Content Management System or CMS for short is the behind-the-scenes tool that you can use to make changes to your website. Whatever you are using your website for, whatever it does, you shouldn't need a Computer Science degree to be able to change some text and pictures.
If you need to make regular updates to your site and don't have the technical expertise inhouse to enable you to do it then a CMS is for you. It is this sort of understanding of your business and your requirements that enables us to properly support you. We can develop a CMS that perfectly matches what you need to do with the site such as the updating of text or images.
The complexity or size of a CMS is determined entirely by your needs. We have created huge Content Management Solutions for clients who needed control of every single aspect of their site and at the same time we have created a tiny CMS for a client who wanted to be able to update the text and main image on his homepage and nothing more. The complexity depends on your needs so at the same time the costs reflect how much development your require; Content Management does not need to cost the earth.
In fact all of the below can be acheived with a CMS and all you would need to do is tick some boxes on the screen, type in some text or browse for some images... no coding involved:
- Edit text on pages
- Edit images that appear on pages
- Upload new videos
- Upload new music
- Upload new documents for users to download (eg. PDFs)
- Add new pages to the website
- Alter the site's menu navigation
- Change the style of the page
- Update the SEO Meta tags & page titles
As with every aspect of what we do, no two clients are identical and so no two solutions we offer are ever identical. When it comes to matching you with a CMS that meets your requirements and your budget there are many options. We have used a variety of free "open-source" platforms in the past providing a tried and tested foundation for a website and we have of course built completely bespoke CMS installations to ensure that everything a client needs is covered and also that things they do not need are not included.
You might have some ideas already when it comes to choosing a CMS, perhaps an outline of what you will need to do on a weekly basis or perhaps a complete review of an existing CMS platform. It is possible to build a CMS and tie it into an existing website too. We have done this in the past when a website does not offer it's owners an easy way to edit it's content.
As you will see, building a CMS is all about matching what you need with what we can build. For this reason the next logical step is for you to contact us so that we can discuss your requirements in more detail.
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