Many people think that to have a web site for your company that you have either hire some guys with lots of computers or that you can get your neighbor to refer his brother who knows a guy down the street who knows computers. You’ll try and try to get updates and changes made but the brother and the guy down the street who knows computers have run off to start a small stock car racing company in Indiana. What to do?

There are options. You can have your site professionally designed in such a way that you can manage the content as you need to and should only occassionally have to call your designer to make changes. It’s true and if your designer is honest and willing to work with you it can be a very pleasant experience for all involved.

Content Management Systems (CMS) allow you the end user to make changes and edit content as you need to without having to turn to the original designer. You can upload content, pictures, documents and audio with a minimum of cost to you.

Some popular content management systems are Joomla, Drupal and our favorite, WordPress. WordPress is a fully functional, outstanding CMS with a repositry of plugins that help you manage your site, create compelling new content and easily manage existing content without much trouble.

With free tools like Aviary and a little learning and/or training you can edit and create images, edit and create audio for your site and do it all without spending a penny.

There’s no excuse anymore not to have a great website for your company. You can do it!