Content Management Systems are the hottest website and blog software available. With a CMS system, like WordPress, business owners and staff can manage the content of their website. It takes minimal web ability to maintain a CMS system, with a little help from us, of course.
Articulate Web Design will install your CMS system to our hosting server and configure it to your specifications. We help you design or choose a “theme” (colors, font, images, layout, etc.) for your CMS system and add any special features necessary for your business.
In addition, we can help you set up online web-based billing systems, classified websites, restaurant websites, professional service sites, blogs, or any other type of website that fits your business model.
Why We Love WordPress
It’s easy to see why the upgrade to WordPress is worth the investment. Here’s a few good reasons:
Your entire site becomes “dynamic”, that is, a framework rather than a group of separate html pages. The standard html web packages are offered by many web designers. For these “old html” style sites, you must understand that if a change is required, each page must be updated individually. This costs you more money because it takes more time on the web designers’ part.
WordPress allows one change to be replicated across the entire site.
For instance, let’s say our client decided to edit all links to the page “Contact Us” to point to “Support” instead. With the standard html web site, this would require the manual editing of each link on each page. By contrast, WordPress is managed in a database. So we can make just one change to the navigation menu, update the database, and ALL pages are dynamically updated across the entire site. This is only one time saving feature of WordPress, which is why we highly recommend the upgrade early in the design process.
There are thousands of prebuilt modules for WordPress.
Modules, or plugins, are pre-built for wordpress that “plug in” to your WordPress site. For example, let’s say you have a standard html web site and you would like to add really neat photo gallery, complete with navigation and special effects. This would require many hours of hand coding to integrate or build in html.
In contrast, WordPress has several photo gallery modules that can be downloaded, installed, and configured to work with your WordPress website in just a few hours. All the navigation and special effects are built in. All it requires is a little integration with your site.
This barely touches the surface of the capabilities of WordPress CMS.
The WordPress platform is worth the initial installation and setup expenses. The possibilities are endless. It can also greatly reduce the editing and time management required for your existing website. Contact Us today or get a quote.
