How to keep your website up to date the cost effective way - Content Management Software (CMS)
Making changes to a website does require a significant level of technical skills and knowledge. A good Content Management System (CMS) makes it easy for non-technical staff to create, edit and publish changes to a website without need a good level of website programming and design skills. The look and feel of the web site is maintained through the use of templates created for the Content Management Software.
Why have content management software (CMS) on my website or intranet?
If you want to make regular updates to your web site a good Content Management System (CMS) may be the best and most cost effective solution. The benefits include:
- Instant updates - whenever you need them, creating competitive advantage
- Control - you are in control, not an independent web consultancy or IT department
- Cost Reduction - no paying out for all those regular maintenance changes to your website to keep it fresh and up to date
- Ease of use - no expert internet or website programming skills are required
- Consistancy - maintain the look and feel of your website with a variety of web site content authors
- Accountability - your staff can be responsible for their own information
Epecentre is a content management software package developed by Epsilis over more than 4 years and has been used in over 40 websites and intranets.
Easy to use
Epecentre content management software has been designed to allow easy and instant maintenance of the content of web sites and intranets. It provides advanced functionality but is as simple as using a word processing package.
You control access
Within Epecentre CMS you can set up user accounts that allow different levels of access from Full Administrator to updating specific sections of content giving you the flexibility to control who updates what.
Tailored to your needs
When the Epecentre content management system is used to manage a website or intranet we provide the site design, navigation and structure with a tailored version of epecentre integrated into the site to match the content being managed.
Existing sites
It is also possible to integrate Epecentre content management software into many existing sites transforming them into sites you can manage. Some redesign of the website may be required to allow the content to be managed effectively within the Epecentre CMS software.
Advanced functionality
Epecentre content management system is designed to manage advanced websites and intranets and has a number of add-on modules that provide specific business functions or the ability to manage multiple websites. The Epecentre content management software:
- Has a friendly user interface designed to be intuitive to use
- Is scalable and will suit small or large busy sites
- Can be accessed from anywhere via the web using a standard web browser
- Allows multiple content editors and maintains the common content look and feel of your web site
- Includes various levels of access to provide control over who can do what
Versions of epecentre
The Standard edition covers most of the common functions required by web sites. Add-on modules provide additional relevant functions for specific business channels, multi-site management or intranet capabilities. More detail of the Epecentre Content Management Software options can be found here.
Regards
Michael Spencer, Managing Director.
michael@epsilis.co.uk
Epsilis - Website Designers
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Letchworth Garden City
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