Autus Web Design & Marketing

Technology House, University of Salford, Manchester M6 6AP. Tel: 0161 278 2534

Manage your Website / Content Management

Autus is experiencing increasing demand for websites whose content is completely updateable by the client.

Benefits of Updating Website Content

We encourage our clients to add to and refresh the content of their websites. This ensures that visitors to the website can expect to see new material when they visit the site - increasing the probability that they will revisit. Refreshed and increased content is also one of the basic criteria used by the search engines in their formula for ranking websites in response to searches. See Search Engine Optimisation.

Website Content Management - Problems

More clients now wish to manage the content of their websites and until now the solution was far from satisfactory. There are several client update or content management packages available, most of them open source software packages, which designers can integrate into a client's website. From the client perspective there are usually two major problems with these packages:-

  1. Content management packages can be difficult to understandThey are not easy to use.

    The client is confronted with a detailed manual (developed by the designer at the client's cost) giving all the instructions for building and updating web pages. In our experience, the client is usually lost at this stage, as they struggle to devote the time required to learn how to become a 'web page editor'.

    • The result - they revert to having updates done by the website designer.
    • The consequence - the client is frustrated that they have paid for a content management system that they cannot use and they still do not have the control of website content that they require.

  2. The introduction of such software to the website will often interfere with the search engine optimisation, by affecting the page tags and other tags used by the designer to convey to the search engine the prime keywords used for SEO. See Search Engine Optimisation for details.

    Where this is not a problem, it will often be because the designer is one of many who still do not use the tagging of the website to talk to the search engines!

Website Updating Software - That Clients Can Really Use..!!

We have tried using the free source content management software - and found it to be a terrible customer experience. So our highly skilled software developer build our own CMS.

As a result we have a content management system that a client with nothing more that basic Word skills can use. Using your client friendly admin area you will actually see the website page you are working on as you change text and images.

Benefits of the Autus Website Content Management package:-

  • Benefits of the Autus Website Content Management packageIn one short, relaxed tutorial you will be able to update your website content.
  • The SEO tagging that we apply to your site is unaffected by the client updating software.
  • We will advise you how to write your new content in a way that will appeal to the search engines. Thus your updates will actually contribute to your SEO activity - rather than destroy from it!
  • You will not receive a thick user manual.
  • You will not need to learn HTML or any other web authoring language.
  • You will have immediate control of your website content, using even 'one finger' Word capability in your client friendly admin area.

Client Updated Website - Example

To see an example of a website with an Autus Content Management System facility see www.postcti.com.

 

To discuss how Autus can give you control of your website content, call us on 0161 278 2534.