"Ireally wish I didn't have to call up my web guy for every little thing I want to change!" Has that thought ever crossed your mind? It has become a source of frustration for many a business owner or manager. Whenever you want to update your home page, post some photos or just change the website's contact information, you have to send an email to the guy who does your web design with all the changes and then you have to pay his fees.

Well, there is an easy and free way to be able to put an end to the madness! It's a piece of software called a content management system or CMS. (I'm typing this blog in a CMS right now) It allows you to:
 

• Create, edit and delete pages on your website
• Create, edit and delete navigational menus on your website
• Post blogs
• Manage customer contact forms on your website
• and lots more

Once you have a CMS setup, you can login to a secure area where you can administer all of the pages and menus on your website. If your website allows users to login and make comments or interact with your website in some other way, you can also manage your users and moderate their activity.

Again, the best part about a CMS is that it's free. There are CMS's out there that you have to pay for, but fortunately, the best ones are free. There are several content management systems available on the Internet such as Drupal, Wordpress, Joomla! and more. Each of these has powerful features that can truly enhance your website. Design and development time and, therefore, cost is significantly reduced because the majority of the work is already done by the creators of the CMS.

For instance, Drupal is one of the most powerful CMS's in the world and is aimtheory's preferred platform for web design. There are thousands of worldwide developers that constantly improving Drupal. Most of the work that goes into your web design is already done.  This means that we just have to configure it to your needs and show you how to set up your own pages. This significantly lowers the cost of your web design project.

In summary, a CMS will:

• Save you thousands of dollars in initial web design costs
• Allow you or your own staff to make changes to your website, saving money over the long term
• Give you more power to market your business and integrate into other useful marketing tools like Facebook, Twitter and email marketing

You may be thinking, "How much will my website cost to design/redesign?" Tell us about your website or check out our fair pricing model.