Helbig Consulting - Web Site Content Management

Overview:

Content Management Systems (CMS) provide a quick and inexpensive way of managing the content of your own web site pages.

They are designed to make this task easy to do by a novice.

The very nature of a CMS may restrict your ultimate control of design and layout compared with a customised web site crated or maintained by a developer. nevertheless they do provide varying levels of control and flexibility.

Higher end (more expensive) solutions increase this type of control but are often out of the reach for small business and personal use.

Options:

Helbig Consulting offers the following Options for controlling the content on your web site:

CM4all

• Free For up to 9 web pages, includes 100 design templates
• Premium version offers unlimited web web page and over 220 templates for a small annual fee
• more information

Our Own CMS

• Uses Access Database to hold content
• Requires programming effort for us to setup and to define template and menus
• No ongoing charges
• Customer has control over page content but not template (unless programming resources are used)
• unlimited pages and self control over content of these
• Examples of sites using this
  • Step Global
  • CASANZ

DotNetNuke

• A more complex and flexible CMS
• requires small programming effort for us to setup for you
• No ongoing charges
• Allows you to alter your site layout and content using templates and a lot of plug-ins
• Requires a lot of effort to learn and manage your site - not for the novice
• Refer to main DotNetNuke Site (Community Edition) for more information

Use Tools Such as Dreamweaver, Xara Xtreme, FrontPage etc to maintain your own site

You always have the option of building your own website using development tools on your computer and uploading these to your site using an FTP (File Transfer Protocol) .

"User" Devlopment Tools

There are tools available, which, with a bit of learning, can allow the user to create webpages without any knowledge of HTML

One of these is and you can see example, details and limitations about this tool by clicking HERE

Web Developer Tools

If you have time and are willing to go through the technical learning curve involved, then you could try Dreamweaver or other such web development environments that can be purchased over the internet.

This tools generally :

• give you ultimate control
• require a lot of technical knowledge in using these tools
• can require a lot of effort to achieve the look and feel that you want unless you know the tricks and taps
• create a very portable web site

As with all of these options we can help with programming resources if you need help with any of these options.

Cost Comparison for different Website Creation methods

User Knowledge / Effort Needed for different Website Creation methods

If you are confused or need more information feel free to contact us.