With the dawn of the internet having a online web presence for your business is a necessity. Increased use of the internet has also made websites one of the most affordable marketing channels available today. Companies spend less on printed pamphlets and brochures and can now simply say: have a look at our website. Your web site has become a 24-hour shop front for your company.
Professional Website Services offers customized web design solutions and various business website packages specifically tailored to your specific needs.
The design process
The web design outline is done according to your brief and various options are presented. Once you have chosen a design concept mock-up, small adjustments are made where required for practical web implementations and search engine optimization. The graphic designer will then supply the artwork to our web developers for programming. Your ideas and the design now becomes a functional website placed on the internet.
Content Management System (CMS)
Going forward you can also update your website yourself with a
Web Content Management System that is integrated into the website. The content management system is your virtual back office. The majority of websites today do not allow you to easily change the content yourself; you either have to learn how to do website programming or hire a web developer again to modify your content. Professional Website Services will always provide you with a free web content management system integrated into your website so that you can easily update your content.
A Web Content Management System uses a database that is installed on your web server. When you update the content in this ‘back-end’ system, your website pulls your updated content from the database and displays it in the proper web format and applies your websites graphic design style elements.
The most useful features of Web Content management systems include:
- Updating the content of your website pages.
- Adding, updating and deleting of products and services.
- Creating and updating of image and photo galleries.
- Management of blogs, events and news sections.
- Adding and deleting of files for your visitors can view.
- Management of frequently asked questions, terms, testimonials and enquiries sections.
- Management of your website security i.e who can access private areas of your website.
- There are many more functions a content management system can perform and we can provide you with a custom solution for your needs.
Is it really easy to use?
A CMS provided by Professional Website Services is easy to use. If you've ever used a word processor like Microsoft Word, you will have no problem using our content management systems. You don’t need to be a internet or computer expert. Most users find it very straight-forward after we provided them with a short training session.
Web design considerations
- Get a URL for your website (i.e. www.yourbrand.co.nz).
- Get a hosting provider for the URL.
- Do you have content for your website?
- Think of pages you need on your website.
- Do you have all the graphics like photos and videos.
- What are your goals for your web site?