Website Management | Website Content Updates
When you need updates made to your website, Walnut Hill Design is an ideal choice to manage any website needs you may have. You want your website in safe, experienced, and trusted hands. We work with most web programming languages, MySQL database applications and dynamic sites, and ecommerce platforms and feel right at home in almost any website.
Whether it's a daily update or a one-time thing Walnut Hill Design is ready for you. Contact us today to discuss your needs. Though we are located in New Hampshire we can work with clients in any location.
benefits of outsourcing your website management
- Lower your Operating Costs:
In most cases outsourcing your website management is more cost effective than hiring a full-time webmaster. If your site really has enough changing content and development needs that can fill a 40 hour week, than hiring an experienced webmaster usually makes sense. However, when the work load lightens which is will, you are still paying out for the downtime.
By hiring a professional website management company you will only pay for the actual labor needed to complete the task. By working regularly with the same company and in most cases the same person, they will get to you know you and your company as if they were in your office on a regular basis.
- Experience Matters:
With Walnut Hill Design, you will get a professional with 10 years of website experience working in a major corporate environment and as a freelancer. We know what works and what doesn't. Our experience with a diverse pool of websites and projects constantly exposes us to new techniques and ideas. We stay current with trends and can identify new technogies that are right for you.
What often happens when companies staff a full-time position for their website needs is that they get comfortable in their methods and fail to seek out new things to better the website. In efforts to save money they may also end up with someone will little experience, and this is an industry where experience and staying current are extremely important.
- Avoid the Downsides Associated with a Content Management System:
A popular trend over the last several years has been develop sites around a Content Management System in order for staff to make basic website updates without any knowledge of code or how the website really works. This often sounds like a good idea, but has some often overlooked downsides.
- Software Costs: While there are some free CMS systems, many solutions are rather expensive and only fit for a large corporate budget. There are some basic software applications, such as Adobe's Contribute, which for $200 per user can effectively put the basic content management into your hands.
- Increased exposure to site hacks. Open source CMS application need to be kept up to date. These are often the source of injection site hacks, which cause malicious code to be inserted to all your pages, and enable the hosting of spam files for dirty email marketing. We've seen it happen more than once.
- Knowing Enough to Be Dangerous: Putting website management into the hands of someone with little design knowledge or that lacks website common practices knowledge, will often lead to a site with broken links, inconsistent design styles, and over time will degrade the site severely.
Dynamic Content with a Database Source
If you have a specific area on your site needing frequent updates and it follows a consistent format, such as an events list, dealer directory, news headlines, or general list we can build a custom database application for your needs. The page will automatically pull the data from a back-end database. We will build you and administration section where you can easily manage the specific data.
View our Web-based Database Applications page for more information on this service.
PRICING
Our website management services are billed at our hourly rate of $65/hr in 15 minute increments.
