I'm offering a range of web design services so you can choose exactly how much design work you pay for. All my websites are based on PetchCMS, a powerful content management system designed by myself, so I'm it's biggest expert. All websites come with a free domain, so this is a good place to start.
If you want to greatly reduce design costs, then using a CMS is a clever idea because it dramatically reduces the time needed to produce and manage a website and cuts out a lot of the initial design work.
After this initial saving, you benefit even further from using a CMS if you want to update your site regularly, as you're provided with a simple method of updating your site, without paying a web designer.
Websites such as blogs, news, e-commerce, events and so on often frequent updates and will almost always be based on a CMS to keep costs down and reduce the time required to manage the site.
My websites are extremely flexible, easy to use and make creating well-structured, dynamic websites very easy. You can concentrate on your users experience, and not the systems required to build it.
My CMS removes the need to call up any web designer or write out time-consuming, repetitive code. It also reduces the effort and knowledge needed to manage a site, for webmasters of all backgrounds.
Publish pages with unique layouts and even navigate your content in different ways. Content can be displayed and used in a variety of ways, allowing you to create blogs, forms, lists, profiles, image galleries, faqs & more.
Each page can hold content and forms, which can in turn contain images, links, user comments and more. Content can also be sorted and displayed in a variety of ways, all chosen in your admin panel.
There's loads of different CMS websites available and each have their own strengths and weaknesses, so very few CMS applications can be considered perfectly suitable for everyone.
My CMS has loads of great features and can handle complex, customised PayPal payments, but it doesn't have an in-built sales manager or multiple payment methods, although these can be designed on request.
This can be solved with the E-Junkie plugin, but it may be a problem for you if you have little HTML experience and are selling a large number of products, using multiple payment & shipping methods during checkout.
Quote, E-Junkie.com: "E-junkie provides copy & paste buy now buttons and a shopping cart to
let you sell digital and tangible products. We take care of the payment processor you want and we also do secure and automatic
delivery for your digital products."
Yes you can, even if you've never managed a website before, or have very little design skills, like HTML or PHP. Your CMS separates the tasks of website design simply and logically, and is as easy as blogging.
Your websites' details, pages, layouts, settings, images, content and forms are all managed using easy-to-use online forms, offering you step by step instructions with valid options at each stage of the design process.
First, you could edit your site info such as name, slogan, logo and so on. Then can create some new pages. After that you can add content and forms to your it using the dedicated managers, in the admin panel.
Price varies, depending on the plan you choose and you can pay monthly to ease the load.
To design & manage your own site, the do-it-yourself plan has a minimal monthly free, no need to pay any designer costs - ideal if you have no specific design needs or feel comfortable adding content to your website.
My other plans include not only my software and hosting, but my time and expertise. If you'd like an expert to take all the hassle out of building your site to your specifications, go for one of the other plans on this site.
Just describe your business or idea and the features you need, with any links to themes or designs you want me to emulate. I'll then recommend a plan for you and discuss your options, based on your specifications, budget and personal needs.
If you know which plan is best for you, just choose a domain name to get started.
Then email me any content or images you want published, so I can add it into your site.
I'll keep in touch as I work, through email, phone or Skype, working based on constant feedback, so you know and can control exactly how your site's progressing.
A CMS is website builder, or content management system, designed to make website development and publishing content online simple and fast. It lets anyone create a professional website without the need to write a single line of code or HTML.
A CMS is made of two parts - a private admin panel and a public website. The admin panel is a set of web forms, visible only to you after logging in, where you edit your website using your web browser. The admin panel lets you publish or edit content, pages, links, images, forms and more.
All CMS applications have a different way of doing things and are designed primarily to cut out the need for a web designer for most tasks, so you can manage your website cheaply and easily.
Updating content is usually very simple in a CMS, but learning to use all features of your CMS is important if you plan on customising your site more heavily.
To do any of this, some CMS websites require a high level of design skills and webmaster knowledge, which kind of defeats the point of cutting out the designer.
Also, each CMS will have certain characteristics, settings and features that cannot be easily changed. This may include signup pages, layouts, URL settings, backup methods etc.