CMS - Childs Play?

Content Management Systems or CMS is the smartest way to manage your website without needing technical knowledge or designers to help. At Helix we have been using an open source CMS to provide our clients with up to date technology that is easy to use at a reasonable price.

Using editing tools that are similar to the ever popular Microsoft Word, this familiar software gives the user confidence to update their own information and publish it straight to the web. Also, the ability to save updates and view what they look like before publishing is a great way  to get the right look without the risk of potential clients seeing the unfinished page.

A content management system (CMS) is a computer application used to manage work flow needed to collaboratively create, edit, review, index, search, publish and arcive various kinds of digital media and electronic text. Source Wikipedia

Who is CMS for?

Targeted at website owners who want control and performance from their site, CMS is the ideal solution for buisiness that need to:

• Make regular changes to their web pages, such as editing text, adding pictures and even adding new pages and sections to their site.
• Add News items with brief listings automatically displayed on the home page and full news stories displayed on a seperate page. The news is also available as a RSS feed.
• Manage and maintain a Events calendar, with events spanning multiple dates and links to a full event description.
• Add and maintain product information that can be searched and browsed
• Sell product through a built in shop with shopping basket and credit card check out.
• Create and distribute e-Newsletters with scheduled delivery and sign up forms
• Tune and optomise the site content for top search engine ranking (SEO)

Although the idea of using a CMS for your website is that you control your own content at Helix Software we do not leave you by yourself. We appreciate the importance of getting it right so we have dedicated account managers on hand to talk you through every step of the process until you feel confident your site is right.