Do you have to ask your website design company or web designer every time you want your website offers changed or have important website changes made? Do you worry every time about the extra costs? Well if you update your site regularly you could consider upgrading your site to be a Content Management System (CMS) giving you the ability to update your own website when you want and as often as you want:
We commonly get asked questions upgrading websites to being ones that you control, like this email inquiry from a client:
Client: How much would it be to change my website, to one that I can edit myself.I see myself wanting to change it reasonably often. I just want to know if would be easier if I just do it myself, it would only be text and images etc not design changes.The reason I want this is I think I need to add two more pages to my website and put some photographs of the activities on the relevant pages. I don’t want to bother you every time we want to add a page or something like that, so is there an instruction manual or something like that for me to use – or would you rather I let you do it and pay the going rate for your expertise?
Delicious: If you want to change your website structure you would need to do that via the actual website code and we recommend you don’t do that but give us the instructions and get us to do it (cheap and quick). But for your options regarding updating your website you have 3 options:
1 Full CMS – We can convert your site to full CMS (allowing total control of menus / pages / content) – approximate costs £225
2 Text only CMS – We can convert your site to a fast, simple and free content management system that aims to make your life easier by simplifying content management. You will be able to control specified areas of content including text and images, if you change images you will need to ensure your new / replacement images are same size as the existing one, meaning the same width and height of the image. You get a username and password to a CMS portal and have a list of your website pages so you can then change your page text or images from a simple menu – £75
3 Delicious CMS – Give us the text and image changes – we work on website maintenance costs of £30 per hour (changing a paragraph of text and updating it shouldn’t take us more than 10 minutes)
Option 1 will take about a week, option 2 will take 2 days and option 3 changes normally taken care of within 24 hours after you email them to us.
