Content Management System-based web site design and maintenance
Intent Design Studio specializes in the design, implementation and maintenance of CMS (Content Management System) based, small business web sites. We can also assist with web hosting, personalized email marketing, bulletins, graphics and a variety of other online media types. Since 1998, we have crafted numerous sites for clients in southern Oregon and northern California, since we are very familiar with the Sierra Nevada foothills near Nevada City, Grass Valley, and Auburn, and the Rogue Valley area of southern Oregon near Ashland, Talent, Phoenix and Medford. Starting in 2008, our emphasis has shifted to rapid deployment, sites using the superbly crafted StudioPress Genesis themes based on the outstanding open source WordPress (CMS) architecture. We can develop a site with your content far more quickly and with vastly greater ease of maintenance and re-design, should the need arise, than ever before. We cater to authors and creative professionals that have inspiring content to share, since we ‘speak that language.’ With the advent of Skype and other teleconferencing tools, our client base is expanding across the country and around the globe.
Advantages of CMS-based web design
Here are a few of the benefits of using the industry ‘best practice’ approach of CMS (Content Management System) based web design:
- Rapid development, deployment, updates; get and keep your site going in a fraction of the time/cost of earlier techniques
- Flexible site, page and navigation architecture; easy re-organization and dynamic re-design ‘on the fly’; adapt to changing needs
- Multi-author, multi-editor, etc. log-in accounts permit routine maintenance by non-technical staff and site owners; about as easy as word processing but with far more versatility including video, audio, animation, photography, graphics and other media.
- Sections and pages of the site can be independently edited by different teams and/or individuals; structure, graphics and text content can all be edited independently, yet default to consistent ‘look and feel’, navigation and other thematic elements
- Content (e.g. serials, tutorials, RSS feeds, news, updates) can be uploaded automatically at regular intervals; allows invisible ‘vacation mode’ for authors who want daily updates while in remote locations without web access
- Portions of the site can be password-protected for limited and/or eCommerce access
- High degree of standards compliance due to XHTML/CSS/PHP database foundation ‘under the hood’; solid architecture minimizes browser compatibility issues and coding errors common with older approaches
- Fast and easy updates to stay current with latest best practices and technology; e.g. 1-click updates for Genesis and WordPress
- Enormous variety of open-source plug-ins and widgets that provide an astonishing depth and breadth of capabilities and enhancements; the capabilities of an environment like WordPress now match (and in most cases exceed) those of the older conventional web design tools and approaches for both blogs AND regular websites
- Anywhere, anytime access for editors, authors and admin staff; from mobile hand-held devices to laptops to desktop machines; anywhere there’s web access, the site can be updated
- Highly customizable using stylesheets, graphic and typographic design and other contemporary tools
- SEO-friendly architectures (e.g. StudioPress Genesis) offer excellent search engine & social networking performance
- Ubiquitous availability of popular, open-source WordPress themes and templates (many of them free like WordPress itself), as well as an ever-growing global community of designers, webmasters and CMS-savvy professionals allows easy transfer/migration to different web admin/design/maintenance staff; minimizes risk of obsolescent technology or support
Contact us today and we’ll explain how affordable and quick your next small business web project can be!
Click here to view our portfolio of client website design work.
Here are some of the sites we’ve worked on in our personal portfolio
We have both flat bed & 35mm slide scanners as well as video capture and editing hardware and software to input and artistically enhance your source content, along with a wide assortment of software including:
- WordPress with StudioPress Genesis themes
- Adobe Creative Suite (PhotoShop, Illustrator, Indesign, DreamWeaver, etc.)
- MegaPOV for 3D ray tracing imagery and animation
- Many more applications for integrating logo designs, audio, video and much more into your project.
Contact us for a free initial consultation to see how affordable and quick your next small business web project can be!
