content management systems
a site you can update without a techy around
Custom CMS Solutions are the cornerstone of our business. As you may have already read, we are pretty proud of our CMS panels, we think they are some of the cleanest and simplest panels in the business. By custom designing our CMS to your specific content needs, we achieve an intuitive environment that often requires no training at all.
For those unfamiliar with the term CMS, or Content Management System; this means that the content on your website is completely editable via a password protected "Admin Panel". This makes keeping your website up to date, easy and inexpensive. More and more, the web is often the first interaction you will have with a new customer, it is increasingly important to provide relevant, current information.
common features

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Page Content Management
Using a rich-text editor, site owners can update text content anytime. Users can create links, add anchors, styles, headings, bulleted lists, and more.

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Image Content Management
Update any images easily, with auto-resizing to fit the design of your site. Users can upload a photo and then specify the cropped area to display.

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Image Galleries
XML driven Flash galleries, created dynamically, defined by the user. Users can update images, resize them, organize their display order, add captions and more.

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Site Search
Site search tools that index your site daily, and deliver extremely fast query results. Our Search tool has PDF, Word Doc, and RTF Doc penetration, so even document based content on your site will show up in search results.

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Profile Manager
Manage team members, client lists, product items, or any other "unit" that needs to be managed. Create, edit, delete items, and using our slick draggable lists interface tool, sort their display order.

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Newsletter & Mailing List Management
Automated newsletter sign-up from your website, self-managed subscribe options with automated unsubscribe functionality. We'll design you a template for your newsletters, you fill in the content, and our system will mail each subscriber individually, ensuring maximum mail-box penetration. Our mail-out tools offer excellent results, even reaching free email accounts like Hotmail, Gmail, and Yahoo, which traditionally are very difficult to penetrate using automated mail-out programs. What good is a newsletter in a junk-box?
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Calendar Management
Add events, and manage your online calendar. Go with our custom calendar, and manage it from your admin panel. Or we can pull data from a Google Calendar, and display it inline with your website! More about Google integration in web 2.0

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Video & Multimedia Management
Whether you are hosting your own video content, or using a 3rd party Video Player (ie. YouTube) to display videos, we can build management tools to accommodate and integrate your multimedia.
Hosting your own videos can offer advantages in tracking for advertising data. We have developed our own Flash Video Player with full share functionality, as well as comprehensive browser, media player, and bandwidth detection. This detection process will ensure your visitors see your video content every time.
There are also amazing new options in the 3rd party hosted video content delivery. Sites like YouTube, Revver, BlipTV, and Vimeo, offer streaming video with share functionality built in. Many new players also offer high resolution.
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Blogs
We are Wordpress experts. Integration, customization, re-skinning, widget-building, we cover it all
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User Management
Multi-level user management allows an "Admin" user to have global access, and create multiple users or user groups with different levels of access. Users see navigation and content in the Admin Panel, only seeing the sections they have permission to see.
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Page Creation & Menu Management
Create content pages, and manage their placement in your site navigation (drop down menus etc)
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Meta-Data Content
Manage page titles, keywords, page description and other data relevant to Search Engines.
always included
Google SEO & WebStatsFirst off, we include basic Search Engine Optimization in every website we build.
Second, we install Google Webstats to measure your website's success. Know how many visitors, how often they come back, where they are in the world, and much more.
Client AccessOur Client Area is your access to the creative process, throughout the development, you can see your project come to life.
Protected with a password so your secret is safe with us.
Deployment & Hosting OptionsNot only will we build you an amazing website, but we'll even deliver it, and take it out of the box for you!
We offer hosting if you require it, if not, we are happy to consult with you regarding other hosting options, or evaluate your current host.

