Richard's Blog » Site redesign
Those of you who have been to this site before will notice that we have a new site design. This was long overdue as the old site was difficult to manage and was also looking a bit stale. We decided to build the site around a Content Management System (CMS) to facilitate easy updates and also because it enabled us to introduce new components into the site.
The CMS we have chosen to use is an Open Source CMS called Silverstripe. Silverstripe is available free of charge and is easy to install and extend. A short list of extensions (or modules) includes:
We use the blog, calendar and forms modules on this site. It also comes with a range of themes available so if you don't want to get into the nitty gritty of editing css and templates, you can just plug a theme you like the look of into the site and start adding your content. We have chosen to use our own theme based on our business colours and have deliberately kept our theme simple so our content speaks for itself.
One area of our business involves the setup and hosting of websites we would be more than happy to talk to you about how a CMS could help you manage your website and reduce the total cost of it.