CMS Package
from £900
Our CMS Package is aimed at small businesses and those that need more control over their content. These sites will typically have regularly changing or increasing content, and include more functionality than a basic site. As well as including all of the key features of our Startup Package, there is a wealth of extra features that can be integrated into a content managed system.
With this package you can have up to 15 pages of content created by us. The beauty of this package, however, is that it allows you to add more pages so easily that you won’t need to contact us or pay anybody else to do it for you.
What use is this to me?
Well, if for instance you wanted to run a blog or news section you can add as many articles as you like, whenever you like. You can even upload images, music or videos to each article and preview the whole post before setting it live.
That’s pretty nifty, what else can it do?
How about interactive maps? Multiple authors for your content? Password protected posts?
No? How about photo albums, search functionality, archived and categorised news/blog posts, integrated Twitter/Facebook/Flickr feed?
The list of possibilities is endless.
What features can be included with this package?
This is an extremely flexible package. These are some of the features that can be included:
- Search engine submission
Once we’ve finished building your site we’ll submit it to all of the major search engines so that it can be found by your customers and clients.
We’ve seen a lot of companies offer to submit clients’ websites to hundreds of search engines, but we suggest you take these promises with a pinch of salt. Although the figures are hard to define and are regularly changing, currently approximately 96% of the UK search engine market share is made up of just 5 search engines: Google (with a staggering 88%), Yahoo (with around 5%), Bing, Live and Ask. You don’t need to submit your site to every single search engine out there. Once the big boys like Google and Yahoo pick up your site, it will be naturally indexed by the others. But this is not something you will need to worry about as we do it for you :)
- Fully customised and unique website
At WHD, we pride ourselves on our design skills and creativity. We strive to give every website we build it’s own character and unique appearance.
- Up to 20 email accounts
If you don’t already have them, we can set up up to 20 email addresses to go with your website.
Example:
- john@youdomain.co.uk
- jane@yourdomain.co.uk
- jim@yourdomain.co.uk
- info@yourdomain.co.uk
- hello@yourdomain.co.uk
- etc
- etc
- Up to 15 pages
With the CMS Package you can have up to 15 pages of content created by us. The beauty of this package, however, is that it allows you to add more pages very easily.
Why is this useful?
Well, for starters you won’t need to contact us and pay for minor tweaks to your content – you will be able to do them yourself. You can also run your own news or blog section to keep people up to date with what you are up to. This can be a really useful tool for your business as it allows you get information out quickly and to a lot of people with very little effort.
Our CMS uses a WYSIWYG editor, allowing you to style your content as you go. There is also a live preview option so you can see what your new content looks like before setting it live.
If there is some other functionality that you would like included with your CMS Package, feel free to get in touch and ask about it.
- Contact forms
- Website statistics and visitor tracking
It’s important to keep an eye on how people use your website once it is live. Are they visiting the pages you expected? Are they skipping important info? Are your visitors using old software or new? All of these things should have an effect on how you use and build upon your site. We can keep track of these and other stats for you and we can also give you access to view them yourself.
- Search facility
Offers the user the opportunity to search your site for the info they are looking for. This is especially useful if you run a blog or news section where there is a lot of archived data.
- Interactive map
If you run a business that requires customers or clients to physically visit you, it is extremely helpful to provide an interactive map to make the process that much easier. With a map users can zoom in and out and move it around until they’ve got their bearings.
- Social media icons
- Integrated Twitter feed
- Rotating image header
- Photo gallery
A photo gallery is an excellent way to display your portfolio work if you are a photographer, graphic designer, web designer, artist etc. With our CMS Package we can give you the functionality to create your own photo galleries for whatever you see fit!
- Password protected content
Sometimes you may want to create content that is only accessible to certain people or paying customers. With our CMS Package you can easily create private and password protected content and only give out passwords to those that you wish to see it.
- Cross-browser compatible website
Building a website that looks and functions identically across all major browsers is an extremely difficult thing to achieve. Every browser interprets CSS slightly differently, so as web designers, we often end up writing extra code just to correct issues in specific browsers. Just about every one of these designers will cite IE6 as being a major pain in the ass.
Fortunately, we’ve encountered a hell of a lot of these browser issues and are getting pretty good at correcting them.
- Editable content
A content management system allows you to update any of your content as easily as if you were working in Microsoft Word. Our CMS uses a WYSIWYG editor, allowing you to style your content as you go. There is also a live preview option so you can see what your new content looks like before setting it live.
- Blog/News section
A blog or news section is becoming an increasingly important tool to business owners and individuals alike. Blogs can help your business develop a personality and character which is important in forming a connection with users. Similarly, a news section works very well in gaining people’s trust and presenting your business in a professional light.
With our CMS Package you add your own blog posts or news as often as you like and all of it will be archived and accessible through your site. It is worth noting that if you are considering this feature, you would be helping out your readers by offering them a search facility as well. All you need to do is ask :)
- User management
User management is a useful feature if there is more than one person contributing to the content on your site. You can set up different roles depending on what access rights you want to give to people. For example, you might want a mix of editors, authors, contributors and subscribers.
- Basic website user guide
We know not everyone is completely comfortable using a content managed system from the off. So as standard, we’ll write up a customised user guide that’s tailored specifically to your website. We’ll include everything you need to know for the day-to-day running and management of it and we’ll even drop in some useful tips to speed up your productivity as you get used to using the system. We like to please.
- 1 hour training session
If we have built you a particularly complex site and you if think you’ll need it, we can arrange for a one-hour sit-down training session to take you through the ins and outs of your website and how to get the best out of it. Couple this with our standard customised user guide that we create for each CMS Package website, and you shouldn’t have too many problems!
Due to the infinite amount of potential customisations with the CMS Package, we cannot give a definite or accurate price until we have more info from you. Typically, prices for this package start from around £900, but can be lower and are always tailored to your specific needs. Contact us with some details and we’ll get right back to you. A list of things you might want to send us can be found in the FAQs page in the ‘Processes and how we work‘ section.
Is that everything?
Keeping a CMS website fully functional, up to date and streamlined requires continual maintenance. Therefore, we include a maintenance package with each CMS website for a monthly fee. Each fee is tailored to your needs and can be discussed during the initial meeting. Maintenance is essential and for good reason. You don’t want your site to break and neither do we.
Maintenance includes:
- Monthly database backups
The database is what stores all of the info in your website. We make periodic backups of your data just in case anything happens to go wrong with the site so that we can restore it all if needed. Regular backups are an essential part of owning any website and we do this to ensure you always have a safety net should the worst come to the worst.
- Monthly database optimisation
Over time and as your website grows, it becomes harder and harder to maintain and can easily spiral out of control if you don’t keep an eye on it. Regularly optimising your database will ensure your website runs as quickly and smoothly as possible, whilst keeping your data organised at the same time and clearing out any unnecessary bloat.
- Regular file backups
Along with your database, it is essential to keep backups of your website files as these are used to construct your site and house all of the data. We do this at regular intervals to ensure we can always revert to slightly older versions if we need to.
- Security updates/improvements
The web is an ever-changing world and it is important to keep up with it in order to keep your website safe and happy. When we find out about new security updates that are available, we will install them as quickly as possible.
- Broken link checking
If you are running a website that incorporates a blog or news section, or any kind of regularly changing/increasing content, it is very easy for links and dead ends to arise. We periodically spider your entire site for these broken links and mend them straight away. There’s nothing more frustrating than page not found!
- CMS and plugin upgrades
Content managed websites sometimes need an entire upgrade of the CMS that powers it in order to bring in new features, fix bugs or security issues and for the sake of general improvement. Every upgrade to the CMS should make the way you use and interact with your website better, easier and most importantly – safer.
Complex websites also often require the use of external addons or plugins for enhanced functionality. These plugins can be updated quite often if the owner has made changes such as bug fixes, security hole fixes and speed optimisations (just like with the CMS above), so it is important to keep up. After all, every improvement in these plugins adds a little improvement to your site.
- Continual SEO
Search engine optimisation is an enormous subject and is a little too large to be discussed in detail in this little box. Everybody wants to be number 1 in Google…so naturally it’s an extremely competitive market. We would never be so presumptuous as to suggest that we can get you in that spot for any given search term – and we suggest that you are wary of anybody that does. However, we will optimise your site as and when we can and at any opportunity to increase your chances of rising up the rankings under certain terms. We have a good working relationship with all of our clients so we also promote them through various social media platforms for a little marketing boost whenever the opportunity arises.
Optional services we offer:
- Custom Analytics report
Trawling through hundreds of facts, figures and charts to get to the good stuff can be time-consuming and sometimes fruitless. We have a good idea of the kind of information people tend to want from their statistics and can put together a simple but useful document for you to save you some time. These reports are from £30 each.
- Extra custom pages
- Image editing/sourcing
Sometimes our clients aren’t always sure what kind of imagery would suit their website, have trouble sourcing them themselves, or simply want something a little more bespoke. Fortunately we spend our days collecting info about where to get the best images and also enjoy a spot of image editing when we get the chance. Contact us if you need some help with any these issues. We charge £30 an hour for image editing and sourcing.
