Content management for your local business. Keep services, projects, opening hours or property details up to date.
For a small or medium-sized business, a content management system should fit your everyday work. We start with the pages you publish, the information you maintain and the people responsible.
Explore past client work ↗We bring CMS experience and .NET development together. The right platform depends on your content, existing technology and budget. We discuss those needs before proposing a solution.
COMPLEX CMS PROJECTS
We can work on complex .NET and CMS projects using Sitecore and Optimizely (formerly Episerver), drawing on hands-on professional experience.
Tell us about your platform, existing implementation and the work you need. We can discuss how that experience fits your project.
EXPERIENCE BEHIND THE SERVICE
This platform experience was gained through professional roles outside Abaca Digital client projects. It informs the expertise we bring to new work.
Discuss your CMS project ↗EVERYDAY CONTENT, UNDER YOUR CONTROL
Perhaps you need to change opening hours, add a completed building project or update a service description. An estate agency may need to maintain rental property details much more frequently.
Before choosing a CMS, we identify the information that changes, how often it changes and who is responsible. That makes it easier to plan an editing experience that fits the work.
A few editable pages can be enough for one business. Another may need repeatable records for properties, projects, products or team members, each with a consistent set of fields.
Structured content can help present information consistently in different places. It also needs more planning than a simple text editor, especially when records relate to one another.
REQUIREMENTS TO CONSIDER
Which text, images and records should staff change? Which layout elements should remain consistent?
Does one person publish directly, or do you need drafts, previews or an approval step?
Should everyone have the same permissions, or should responsibilities differ between editors and administrators?
Who prepares photographs and documents, and how will the team keep them organised and suitable for the website?
These are decisions to scope together. The agreed CMS and implementation determine which features are available.
If you already have a website, we discuss what needs to move, what is worth rewriting and what should be retired. Pages, images, documents and structured records may need different approaches.
Content migration can involve manual work, data mapping and checking the result. Existing URLs and any redirects should be considered alongside the move, rather than left until launch.
Content editing and technical maintenance are different jobs. Your team may update the pages while platform updates, hosting, backups and application changes need a separate arrangement.
We discuss who is responsible for each part, what guidance or training your editors need, and what support is included. Licensing and hosting costs should be considered as well as the initial build.
When content needs bespoke functionality ↗CHOOSING A CMS
No. If your information rarely changes, a straightforward website with updates handled for you may be enough. A CMS becomes more useful when your team needs regular control over content. We can discuss the maintenance and cost implications of each approach.
Possibly. We need to understand the platform, implementation, access available and changes required before recommending whether to retain, improve or replace it.
Those can be suitable uses for structured content. We would define the fields, images, status changes and public presentation, along with any search or external data connections required.
The content types, page templates, editor permissions, publishing workflows, data migration, integrations and platform choice. Training, licences, hosting and ongoing technical support should also be included in the discussion.
A list of what you want to update, examples of existing content, the people who will edit it, any publishing problems and details of the current system. You do not need to select a platform first.