Content Management Systems

Content Management

If your website is constantly changing, or you would like more control over adding and amending content, we create content management systems that allow you to control your website:

• Edit content on web pages
• Add and amend sections and pages
• Upload and manage images and download files
• Create forms
• Add meta data and search engine friendly web pages

Our Content Management System

Our content management system has been developed alongside a third party partner. The system has various plug-in modules available to enhance the standard functionality.

We design the face of your website and this is applied to templates that fit with the CMS. This standard package gives you:

• Platform independent management - no special software required, you manage the CMS through a standard web browser
• Customisable security levels for authoring and approval
• Multiple template designs to allow for different page styles
• Automated image processing and optimisation
• WYSIWYG editing
• Portals
• Text Only site view option
• Additional plug-ins include:
  • E-commerce shopping basket & payment
  • Content moderation
  • E-mail forms
  • News
  • Version control
  • Bespoke custom features for your system

What is a Content Management System?

A content management system is sometimes referred to as CMS. CMS is a great way to manage your website as you control the content. Some CMS solutions offer more management than others. For instance, you may have a news update section on your website, this could be classed as CMS as you have control over the pages without coding them.

CMS isn't for everyone as they do have certain restrictions. Effectively the CMS part creates web pages automatically based on the content you enter into a back-end interface. This is then formatted and displayed as a web page. Depending on the system, this may look flat, or it may allow for various formatting options for bold text and headers, etc.

However, if you use CMS, we always recommend a system that creates accessible and semantic mark-up. This means that sub headers (for example) are marked up correctly as h2 tags rather than the CMS just making them bold and a little bit bigger.

This way of working creates better web pages that allow machines, such as search engines and screen readers, to dissect the important information correctly from your web page.

CMS Samples:
E107 CMS
Mambo CMS
Joomla CMS