As a designers ourselves, we spend a lot of time creating fresh and exciting designs for our clients, after all, that's what you pay us to do. We also understand there is a need for that site to stay up to date. Although we and lots of other designers offer a personal one-to-one design service with content updates, it is generally more advisable to allow you, the client, the ability to update the website with out breaking the page layout or reducing the quality of the design we've spent so long creating for you. It's faster and more cost affective in the long run.

Our CMS evolved from a need to offer our clients control over the website for users who typically don't know their XHTML from their Photoshop.

The CMS comes with a desinger toolkit, and as the name suggests, allows a designer the ability to create a range of templates peppered with special HTML controls that allows parts of the page to become editable in the CMS or populated by dyanmic content.

it's up to the desiger to decied how much control you're users are given, and in consultation with you, a good balance can be achived. The design has the ability to limit (or not) how the content flows within the pages, what feautres are required and the length of the content.

The editors then have the ability to edit the content in a word processing like environment safe in the knowlodhe that all the hard work put in to maintain the design will not go to waste as they edit and amend content.

Not only that, but as a designer, you retain the ability to manage further changes to the site. By simply altering a template design, all pages assigned to that template are also updated. If a text region has moved to a new location within the page, the content simply moves with it.

For your editors & publishers, adding new pages is simple, they just choose "add page" and pick the template from the available list. You can even limit the depth...