Our approach to web design can be easily summed up in 1 line:

Your site, your way!

At the end of the day, it’s your content. You know your organisation, your services and products, your suppliers and customers. You know the content better than anyone else. This is why we concentrate on building sites that allow you to take charge of your own content. The majority of our sites are built with a content management system (CMS) that supports the creation, management, distribution, publishing, and discovery of your information.

At the front of a content management system is an easy-to-use admin panel, designed to look and work like a simple word-processor. This provides a non-technical way of creating new pages or updating content, without having to know any (X)HTML. The CMS also allows you to manage the structure of the site. That is, where the pages go and how they are linked together.

A Content Management System provides central control of design and structure, whilst decentralising the management of the content. At the same time as having control over the way the site content is displayed, the content itself is updated by the people who own it. Of course, you don’t want to have to train all your content authors in the finer points of HTML, and neither do you want to have to make your authors dedicate large amounts of their time to managing their content – you want them to be doing their jobs – what they do best!

A Content Management System allows authors to edit and publish their content with the minimum of fuss. Training can be completed in under a day, and by the end of the day they can be using the CMS on a live site. Your authors do not have to be technical; in fact the CMS removes the need for any previous technical knowledge of HTML, or of the internet in general.

Our Content Management System will also ensure that the right content is in the right place at the right time. User-defined roles and permissions can ensure that authors only have access to their content, on their section of the site. Workflow processes will ensure that content does not go live to the world without first being moderated and authorised by the right person. You will be able to keep your content under your control.

Why do we design web-sites in this way? Simple: its cheaper and easier both to build and to update, allowing you to get on with what you do best. However, we do also offer a series of maintenance contracts for clients who would rather leave things in someone elses hands. Like we said above: your site, your way.'