The story told is very common. You have a website that a website designer created for you. It looks really well and you were happy with both the look and content at the time. But since the site was created your website designer has moved on to different work or even to a different location and now you have nobody to update it. This is a pain for you as you may have some content that is out of date and you may have a lot of visitors due to an ad campaign coming online or a social media push through Twitter or Facebook.
You have two options on this front. Which one you choose depends on the frequency of your updates.
You Don’t Update Your Site Too Often
This is easy. Hire a person to maintain your website and either pay them a rate per update or pay them a monthly fee to support irregular updates. The flash term is website maintenance but unless you are willing to learn the complexities of the code then this is the path you will have to take. Best bet is to use soemone for a couple of weeks and see if it works out and then put them on a monthly retainer to do the changes.
Move Your Site to a Content Management System
If you are making regular changes to your site then it is worht the investment to convert it to a content management system that allows you to make the changes yourself and put the control in your hands. This is essentially a new design effort but at the end of the process your end up with a new site that you control the content and change.
A CMS allows you to quickly and easily edit your website pages. If you use Microsoft Word you will be able to use a CMS with similar ease. Add new pages, update old ones, insert pictures and videos and control all aspects of your website.
If you do not want to be contacting a website designer for every small update then the WordPress CMS we install will be perfect for your business site.
WordPress is free to use, easy to install and once I configure it to your chosen website design you will be able to use it from day one with a short amount of training.