The problem

As you know visitors are far more likely to return a website that has something new, interesting and fresh for them to engage with. So this means that you need a simple and cost effective way to maintain fresh and interesting content on those high end projects. You need a content management system.

The idea is simple. Take your website, bolt on an off the shelf content management system and start editing content straight away. But soon the problems will start to creep in.

Can you apply any design to the Content Management System?
If you’ve slaved over the perfect design for a website, then you’re going to want to use it. A lot of content management systems however use pre built templates that you have to use regardless of any design ideas you may have. This is fine as long as you don’t mind having an identikit website.

Can you edit all of the parts of the site that you want to?
More often than not you’ll need to update a small piece of copy or an image that you can’t quite find within the content management system you’re using. It’s a common enough problem that can eat up valuable man hours.

Does it just edit page content?
There are lots of instances when you’ll need to do more than just edit web page copy and images. For example if you want to be able to manage products and categories on an ecommerce website whilst still being able to edit page copy and images on the rest of the site, you’ll need a purpose built system. This is where our expertise can really come into play.

The solution

Our content management systems have been developed to meet our clients exact needs. We don’t take an off the self solution and resell it, we design every part of our content management solutions from the ground up. This means that you can be sure that your clients needs are being met 100%.

Below is a brief list of the functionality that our CMS solutions can offer:

• Product and catalogue administration
• Web page content administration
• User accounts
• Order tracking
• Customer tracking
• News article and archiving system
• Email campaign management
• Excel spreadsheet import and export facility
• File sharing and download management system

So why not get in touch, call us in and let us take a look at the projects you’re dealing with. We’ll come back with some realistic costs and approaches for you to consider. What have you got to lose?

To find out more you can call me on 0117 9444430 or email me at jean-paul@firecast.co.uk