- You’ve found a designer you can work with.
- You have visited their site a hundred times.
- You have colors and images and even page topics all picked out. But what to put them in?
Well, the designer should be guiding you, but it’s good to be informed. Here are two choices to consider:
- A traditional web site, with Home, About, Services pages nested with lots of bells & whistles, like newsreaders and Flash galleries.
- Or you could opt for a more streamlined site with fewer extras, but a big plus the other type doesn’t offer: You can update it yourself, the text that is.
Think about it. You wake up one morning with a brainstorm — an idea for new store special! It’s based on an event happening downtown this weekend. So you want your idea announced on the web right away!
What to do?
Call your designer? Possibly. Possibly there will be a wait. Possibly they won’t have the time to do the update ’til next week. Probably there will be an update charge.
How about this instead. You wrap on your robe, walk on over to your own computer, and type in the announcement yourself?
Hmm..
That’s the beauty of a CMS, or content management system. The freedom to update is yours…
{D..}
