Deciding what you need
If your website is for generating business, it is to make visitors curious for what you have to offer. Visitors should experience some open, direct action and adventure. Your website is to emanate that a customer relationship with you is going to provide value for them.
What creates that effect? That depends. There is no one-size-fits-all solution. Each CMS is different, to suit different needs. In some cases it even pays to have one developed uniquely for you. To organise what you need, want and desire, you can ask yourself, and your team (if such exists) some questions like
- What are some of the issues that indicate the need for a website?
- What are you out to have happen?
- Whose idea was it?
- Who else might be interested?
- What do you imagine as outcome of the effort put in?
- What are the advantages of having a website?
- What might be the disadvantages?
- Who in your business/company has IT/OS experience?
- What responses can you expect from others?
- What will it mean for you/the business/the company?
- What will be different?
- Why are you interested in having a website?
- What is the purpose of the website?
- How can you get (more) support for this from others?
- What would be the next steps?
- Who will implement the actions?
- Who should be present for the next steps?
You can also use our website project questions, marketing message questions or our website layout questions for brainstorming more clarity.
After getting what you need/want/desire more clear, which of the four CM Systems in our guided tour would best support your website(-to-be)?
- CMS Made Simple features
- Available modules Exponent
- Joomla Extensions Directory
- Core modules and additional modules for Drupal
Or, if you are quite clear on what will be needed, determined, and wish us to design a website for you, please continue with our Customer Questionnaire. We will respond as soon as possible.
