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Information sheet:
Self-updateable pages
for your web site
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What are they? pages would rarely need to be changed, maybe once or twice a
year. In fact, if the content throughout your website would
Imagine a web page displaying a list of hardly need any changes (for example, a personal profile site),
upcoming conferences or discounted we would recommend the traditional, static web pages.
products in your shop; you would
certainly want to have up-to-date Staying in Control
information displayed to your
customers. Because Self Updateable Pages enable you to keep control
of the content being displayed on your website, they save you
A Self Updateable Page does exactly that: It displays the most a substantial amount of money that you would otherwise
recent information to website visitors and it does so by allowing pay your web designer for frequent or even periodic manual
you to edit the contents of this page in a special ‘Admin’ area of changes.
your website (accessible only to you and your staff members).
To make all this happen, and to keep it dead simple for you to
Do I need any special skills to use them? use, requires some careful programming by us behind the
scenes. Each self-updateable page we create is unique - tailored
No, you do not need any special skills at all! Adding or editing to your precise requirements. No massive
the content of a Self Updateable Page is as easy as copy pasting and confusing list of features which you
a section of text in a Notepad-like text box and hitting the don’t need, which are the hallmark of
update button. generic off-the-shelf CMS systems.
This becomes possible through the special ‘Admin’ sections that It only requires a one-time development
we program for you to carry out this task. fee for us to build these pages.
Do I need to buy or install any special software?
Costs Involved
You can carry out these changes without installing any software
on your PC, which means that you can update the page from Given that some requirements are more complex than others,
any web-connected computer or even a portable PDA device the cost of our self-updateable pages varies quite a bit, but the
from wherever you happen to be at the time. start-up cost for something like this need be only around
£120–£200.
How long does it take to update my web site this way?
Making the most out of them
Would you believe us if we said “45 seconds”? And that mostly
includes the time it takes to enter your username and password Generally speaking, once these self-updateable pages are set up,
into the login screen! Did we make this figure up? No, this they can run smoothly for years, needing only to be supplied
came from a client meeting where the customer refused to with up-to-date information by yourself or your colleagues. You
believe our claim that it would take about 60 seconds to update, might choose to delegate the task of updating the web site to a
and so we timed her first attempt. This is how long it took. junior colleague - what a time saver!
But what about the traditional static web pages? How to begin!
Traditional static web pages inevitably have their place and are Not sure about your specific requirements? Why not fix a
suitable for content which is expected to remain same for a long meeting with us for some unbiased and professional advice?
duration of time. For example, the ‘About Us’ or ‘How to Find Us’
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