Managing content on your site is a headache if you are not a web
developer. You need to make adjustments to text on your site quite often but
don't want to learn HTML. Maybe you have multiple people in your
organization that you want to contribute to your site, but you want to
be able to approve and manage the changes. Perhaps you want some
content on your site to be automatically managed by a database you
update regularly.
There are several ways to manage your content. Our
recommendations are based on the frequency and quantity of change,
your availability of resources and their level of comfort with the
appropriate technology, and the technical requirements of the site.
Software-based
Editing – This involves a member of your staff editing “static”
HTML pages through the use of a software tool such as Adobe’s
Collaborate/Dreamweaver or Microsoft FrontPage. You may need to purchase the
software, usually in the $150 price range. We can optionally provide
training and/or documentation to help you edit the content of your
site. This does not apply to database managed sites, but is an
excellent low cost option for smaller sites with very few (1 or 2)
people editing the web site. We can develop the site so that the
editors are less likely to mistakenly edit any JavaScript or menu
systems.
Web Based Content Management System (CMS) – This is a web
based tool that Metheney Consulting develops specifically for your
site that enables your team to log into a specific web admin tool
and edit content. This requires very little training and
documentation, but does require more development time. This is
better for larger sites or sites utilizing databases with large
amounts of data such as lists, etc. Most e-commerce sites include
some sort of web based admin tool that allows a database to contain
the product data, but they can also include some static pages.
Optionally, we can add an approval module so that if various people
need to edit content and Master Editor can approve, edit or reject
content before it goes live. A web based solution is best if you
have a large web site, a larger number of people contributing to the
content or require data integration, or frequent changes.
Out Sourced Content Management – Optionally you can also hire
a firm such as Metheney Consulting to manage and edit the content
for your web site. Many companies find this preferable to learning
the software or if they don’t have the time to do the edits
themselves. They simply email the changes to us and we do the edits.
Metheney Consulting can integrate your site with data and create a
simple system for you to manage large sites with learning HTML.
