Content Management Systems (Easily Up datable Sites)
Also known as: CMS sites, Self-managed or Self-maintained sites.
CMS is web jargon meaning Content Management System. Essentially a CMS website is one where you the client can update the content of the site yourself, without knowing any fancy code or owning extra software packages.
When should I consider using a CMS?
- If your site requires frequent updates to images or text content
- If your site carries large amounts of content
- If you want to update and maintain your site yourself
- If you want other people to contribute to your site
There a many different kinds of CMS, at Quikclicks we use a system that allows users to update their website via a web based interface so you don’t have to learn new programs to maintain your site, you can log in to our administration page and update your website using your favourite web browser.
Features
Aside from adding text and images to your web site the Quikclicks CMS enables you to:
- Maintain a news blog
- Add an events calendar
- Manage an image gallery
- Manage banner adds to help you earn money from your site
- Have an integrate emarketing system to keep in touch with new or prospective clients
- Allow visitors to your site to contribute content or set a variety of access levels so that staff have limited access to designated areas of the site
Advantages
Our CMS sites are built on a proprietary platform that is being upgraded all the time.
WordPress is infinitely extensible. One of the core philosophies of WordPress is to keep the core code as light and fast as possible but to provide a rich framework for the huge community to expand what WordPress can do, limited only by their imagination.
Why Use WordPress?
• Plugins – Plugins can extend WordPress to do almost anything you can imagine.
• Themes – You can find or create just the right look for your blog.
• WordPress Ideas – The ideas forum is where you can suggest and vote on ideas for where WordPress should go next.
Why Use PrimeWebsites?
We have proven experience in developing successful online businesses. We combine professional and elegant web design with practical experience in open source frameworks to ensure your visitors become customers.
Why Choose Us?
Creating an inspirational website for your business is the first step toward online success. Engaging your customers at the appropriate level, and ensuring they’re encouraged to stay on your site, creates the most potential for them to enquire with you, or buy your products.
Strategic Web Design – At Inspired Web Design we emphasise the linkage of marketing objectives with your website objectives. We drive site design, site architecture and even the specific outcomes that you are seeking from each page from this core objective based focus. We lead you through an extremely practical 5step process and help define a series of success pathways that leaves you with an asset that can grow and evolve over time rather than simply deliver a once-off effort. The difference to standard site development is remarkable. It’s the Prime difference …
At Prime Websites we employ only experienced developers, all based in our office, and utilize a set of proven methodologies that ensure the web based tools & websites we create for our clients deliver fantastic results, every time. We run lightweight scope sessions to help set expectations early in the process, develop prototype systems to get the usability and look right before we build, and always use CMS systems – so our clients have the ability to edit the content as they please. We don’t lock in our clients, so they always have the flexibility to take their business elsewhere, if they really want to (but we doubt that will ever happen!). We also deliver set price proposals – so there are no surprises.