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Content Management & Systems

Your own bespoke CMS, CMS software or ... ?
We offer two types of CMS. Each will enable you to manage - maintain, update and refresh - the content on your website in plain language without any specialist knowledge or training.

  1. Bespoke system designed specifically for your needs
  2. Third-party software installed and adapted to your needs

You have a website.  Its content needs managing. 
It needs updating regularly, too. But you don’t have the skills, time or inclination.  You don’t employ anyone who knows how and your web designer wants to charge you a fortune. The solution: Get CMS - a web content management system.

A CMS will enable you, or any member of your staff, to manage your website content easily, efficiently and cost effectively. And it will let you, or them, do it plain language without need of special knowledge to training.

The key functions of a CMS
A CMS integrated with your website will enable you to store, control, create, add, edit, update, change, replace, archive any type of written document, photographic or other pictorial material, audio and video clips; diagrammatic, statistical or numeric date files in plain English - not complicated code.

OPTIONS

Bespoke CMS
A bespoke CMS is something we design and develop for you, tailored specifically to your needs. It will have a very friendly user-interface and be fully expandable to meet future needs. And no special software or plug-ins are necessary as your website is the user interface!

Any CMS we design, we do so with non-technical people in mind by incorporating a plain-language, WYSIWYG "Microsoft® Word-like" editing suite. No special technical web skills or training needed.

Key features:

  • edit existing pages in plain language
  • cut and past text from Word documents
  • add new images without resizing (auto resize and compression)
  • add new information sections
  • add new pages
  • update data entries and lists (e.g. online catalogues and stock lists)
  • add news items
  • create and interactive maps & locations
  • add online forms
  • change page names
  • modify site navigation
  • exclude pages and/or archive
  • create links - to internal pages or external websites
  • upload and link to any type of file - e.g. Word, Excel, PDF, video and sound files

Overview of user interface

"Microsoft® Word-like" interface featuring:

  • bold, italicise, underline, strike-through
  • font type size, colour, style
  • superscript, subscript
  • bulleted and number lists
  • indents
  • left Justify, right justify, centre, block justify

User and group administration

  • unique user name and password
  • set access and user permissions
  • user login / logout date and time record
  • modification reporting by name, time, date
  • auto back-up and data compression

Third-party CMS software
Third-party CMS software is a web application designed by a commercial software developer.  Once installed and integrated with your website files it will perform all of the key functions described above. The functions are pre-programmed but can be adapted to meet your specific needs. Most offer a user friendly interface and are expandable to meet future needs.

The other option!
Let us manage your website content for you. Contact us on 01989 563993 or Click to email us

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