Maintenance
After designing your site, we would like to stay involved by maintaining it for you. Perhaps you don't have the time to keep your site up to date and you don't feel like learning a new piece of software. You can send us your updates by e-mail or as Word attachments, and we'll update your pages for you at our hourly rate.
If you're considering maintaining your site on your own or with minimal outside help, consider these options:
Maintain Your Site From any Browser
We develop CMS (Content Management System) sites using Joomla!, which will allows you to login using a web-based interface and edit your pages directly online in a friendly Word-like editor. The software behind this runs on PHP/MySQL, which is open-source (no proprietary restrictions) and it's free, so you only pay for our time. Both Joomla and PHP/MySQL are very widely supported. We do also develop CMS sites using other packages such as Drupal but our current overall recommendation is Joomla.
When set up correctly and thoughtfully, a CMS site can greatly improve your search engine optimization by auto-generating a sitemap for Google Sitemaps and Yahoo! Site Explorer. The sitemap keeps itself updated, and the search engines keep coming back to re-index your site as it changes. On top of that, the site should be set up with search engine and human-friendly URLs that contain valuable keywords. Thankfully this can be automated.
Maintain your site With adobe Contribute
For some sites we recommend Adobe Contribute 4, which allows you to update your own site using a Word-like interface without needing to concern yourself with HTML code. This works well for existing sites or ones not requiring a database. It allows us to maintain the technical aspects while you edit the text and place images and links just as you'd expect. Contribute works well with teams of editors, even if they are in different locations, allowing people to collaborate over long distances.
Need a webmaster?
If you just need someone to maintain your site, please let us know how we can help you. We offer very fast turnaround; most updates are completed within 48 hours because we understand that an up-to-date site is critical to your success.