.: Your "Backend" :.

An overview for Customers and Potential Customers

All websites produced by Cedar Grove Design include a Content Management System (CMS). The CMS is used by the owners of the site to easily update links on the site, photos in your galleries, bits of text, items in their stores, news releases, etc by simply filling out a few text boxes and or pressing a few buttons in their browser (typically).

The CMS is usually only for use by the owners of the website or it's staff.

We traditionally refer to this as the "back end" as opposed to the "front end" or public part of the website.

To give you a bit of a feel for what we're talking about, we have a few (slightly older) snapshots from the "back end" of the website TennesseeFOLK.com.

Login Screen

This is first screen you'll see when to go to the backend. Before you (or anyone else) can make any changes to your website you have to login.

Managing Your Website

Once you're in the backend of your website, you'll generally have a grouped list of special pages that let you either view or change aspects of your website.

For example, most of the websites we've produced have a Contact Form of one fashion or another on them. The example site TennesseeFOLK.com is no exception. Thus we have in the backend a page you can go to that lists all of the messages people have sent through the contact form. (It also, BTW, typically emails all of contact form messages to you, FYI -- depending on how you've had us setup your site. But backing it up in the website's own database can be quite useful.)

To get to the point, the backend allows you, the owner of the website, to change or update the parts of it that you would need to change often. All by yourself. Easily. Without a lot of fuss.

We do all the hard work for you once, while building your site. After that, managing your site yourself is not much more complicated that checking and managing your email online would be.