Keeping Your Website Up To Date

Net News & Views, Volume 2 Issue 4, Page 1

The importance of a great website cannot be overstated. The content, the graphics, the links and navigation all make up the dynamics of a website. But more importantly, these are the elements that drive the visitor to purchase your goods and services or make contact. If your website is out of date, or not pleasing to the eye, chances are you could be propelling your visitors elsewhere, most likely to the competition. An out-of-date website can result in lost sales and seriously damage your brand.  Website content must be up to date so that visitors return to the site and become customers.

Many small websites rely on web designers to keep their sites up to date. Though this is easy for the site owner, the expense and slowness of this process often works against keeping a site up to date - particularly when it comes to removing material that's out of date.

In the end, there's no substitute for learning to manage a site yourself - even if you retain a developer for help with the more complex changes. There are many simple, low-cost content management systems that make changing a web page almost as easy as using word processing software.

Can I maintain my website myself?

Yes. Our new hosted product, DIY Website Editor, is a user friendly online website editing solution that allows you to edit your website directly from a web browser regardless of where your site is hosted. It allows you to log in and edit your website when you want. No training is required in using this product because everything is point and click! A simple yet effective tool, DIY Website Editor helps you maintain a professional website in house, saving you money from having to outsource the job.

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• Manage your own website with ease: runs directly from a web browser, so you can login and edit your website 24/7.
• No HTML experience required: everything is point and click, you can login and update your web site quickly and easily.
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• Upload HTML pages, images, PDF files and document files with ease.
• No new technology requirements: can be accessed from ANY PC with an Internet Connection and Internet Explorer 5.5+.
• No Training Required: user friendly, easy navigation and layout is similar to Word so anyone can use it!