Where is your Web site taking you and your visitors? Do you know what options are available? Which ones might fit your communications and business goals?

We help you clarify your site's purpose, desired visitor actions, and organization requirements. These will lead you to the best fit of design, function, and maintenance features.

CMS makes it easy to organize, update, and maintain a complex Web site. These comes in a wide variety of flavors from very simple blogs to more sophisticated and layered systems with many modules or plug-ins. Customization of a CMS can make it look and feel like a custom built site, yet cost much less.

Many CMS platforms come with built-in features that help inexperienced and experienced content authors better organize and cross-reference their content.

For Web sites where non-technical users need to make frequent changes to the a CMS is the best way to go.

The value of Intra-company (pass-worded) sites are often overlooked by organizations. They can provide a well organized repository of company infomation.

Internal private Web sites quickly grow into a true kowledgebae that can save time and increase staff productivity because they can re-use and re-tool solutions that have already been used and tested by other staff and management.

Gallery sites make uploading, organizing, and sharing photographs and other visuals easy.

These sites generally don't have limits and can have more complex privacy permissions than generic free photo sharing sites. Gallery plug ins and modules are available for CMS

Custom sites require more specialized design and/ or code skills.

Graphic design and Flash, Java, PHP, or .net scripting that cannot be done through a CMS can provide a more unique look and feel to your site. There is usually a time and budgetary balance between custom and do-it-yourself work. All sites require some "custom" work during the initial set up

Proprietary sites without CMS may not change very often and changes can easily be handled by a staff person, or contractor with experience working directly with the page code and files (CSS, etc.) which control the look and feel of those pages. Large custom sites are created with the knowledge that there is enough staff talent and skill to handle the continuing maintenance.

Hybrid sites are "mash-ups" of different components some of which can be maintained by non-technical users and some which require more experienced maintenance.

Unless you have Web specialists on staff, the best way is to have the custom work done up-front and not in the updating and maintenance of the site