Content Management System

A quick and dirty guide to website management

January 8, 2009 Blog

Website management is not just about what happens to your website once you launch it. To build a website you can manage easily and affordably, website management needs to be taken into consideration before your site is even built. If you’ve been following along with my website planning series of posts, you’ll already have a [...]

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I am website. Hear me roar!

December 10, 2008 Blog

If you’ve been paying attention you’ll have seen Monday’s post about planning your micro business website around your customers’ needs. Today I’m suggesting you reel those customers in and decide exactly what your website will and won’t do for them. You aren’t Amazon.com and you most likely have little or no budget for your website, [...]

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Proof that WordPress does work as a CMS

September 11, 2008 Blog

WARNING: Geeky Web designer content ahead. I’ve read a dozen or so articles proclaiming that WordPress, the world’s best blogging platform, can be used as a Content Management System (CMS) for business websites. So when Craig from Presslink asked me to develop a new 100+ page site for Air Products South Africa, we decided that [...]

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Website re-design for Aquaticus Services

July 10, 2008 Blog

When Aquaticus Services approached me to re-design their website, converting it into a Content Management System (CMS) and repository for their library of PDF technical documents, they challenged me to build them a website that was: Very cost effective to build Even more cost effective to manage The result is a WordPress driven website using [...]

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Should you manage your own website?

February 28, 2008 Blog

Websites are supposed to be dynamic. This means they need to be updated. Which means someone needs to manage them. The question is, is that person you? Let’s take a look at a fictional website for a fictional client of mine called Acme Engineering. Acme is a small company and they’re tired of paying me [...]

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