Our website set up and ongoing support service bridges the gap between the low cost "set your own site up" services you see advertised on TV, and the expensive "bespoke" kind of services offered by the high end digital design and marketing agencies.

We give you the benefits of the latter but with costs closer to the former, whilst ensuring all the key fundamentals required for your website to achieve your primary objectives are in place.

In the main, we set your website up for you, add initial content, and then train and monitor you as you add more. We keep costs low by adapting one of our latest designs to suit your individual needs. It means we can spend more time assessing the best ways of using the platform's editing tools to display your content, and where necessary creating bespoke variations of functions or features to enhance presentation. If you need more hands on help adding initial content or managing your site, let us know and we'll make a plan tailored to your budget and requirements.

We host your website using the LightCMS award winning cloud hosted platform. The intuitive content management system makes it easy to edit content, and the platform includes e-commerce, secure intranet and unlimited pages, products, users and data storage as standard.

The tools in the platform are incredibly easy to use.

Help Guide
Our online Help Guide tells you everything you need to know and is continually evolving as new features are added. Simply click on the "Help" in the top right hand side of the black horizontal menu bar you see across the top of each page when you are logged in to your website as an editor. Choose what you want to know about. It's all very logically set out, with on screen guides and instructions.

Page Templates
Your website includes a number of different page templates that you can use to present content in different ways, and we are continually developing new ones.

When you add a new page, the default template will automatically be chosen, but you can change this using the editing tools in the platform (see Edit Page Settings in Help).

A new, empty page includes a number of rows with buttons that say "Add". These are set out in rows/columns of 1, 2, 3 so you can add content with various combinations.

NB: Only you as an editor see the empty "Add" buttons. You simply ignore what you don't need. For example, you could add 3 image elements across the top of a page upload 3 individual images and crop them so they are the same aspect ratio. You could add a text elements below that in either the 1 or 2 column "Add" and then as your content starts taking shape, you can even move the elements about by dragging and dropping the elements around the page.

Images
Although you can upload images up to 8mb in size, these will be much bigger and take longer to download than is necessary. The image editor enables you to resize images and crop them so they can be presented neatly. In the main, you'd never need an image to be wider than 1000 pixels, and the responsive will auto fill the area designated to the image element.

Html and css widgets
If you want to push what you can do with the various elements a bit, we can create html and css widgets for you that you can paste into:

(a) The Title of any element and it will hyperlink to the designated page with the designated text displaying or (b) The html area of the content/description area of Text, Image, Calendar or Blog elements.

Best advice of all is to spend some time learning what you can do and experiment. Set up a test page and hide it or make it only accessible to users who are logged in (ie you!). Then have a "play" and add some content. We are always available to advise and train you if you have questions or need help.