Creator Design
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Our Service
Creator can develop bespoke internet database and website applications to do exactly what you need it to do: be it a simple mailing list, a content management system or modeling a sophisticated business process.
Our Database & CMS Service includes:
- bespoke database development
- custom website application development
- implementing and developing custom CMS
- format existing data for importing into a new database system
- exporting/extracting data for use in another system or for reporting purposes
CMS is anacronymn for Content Management System : It allows the management of website content including changes to images and text, as and when needed, without requiring technical knowledge of website publishing.
Tell Me More
Every business relies on data of some kind. Customer, supplier and accounts data are just a few of the more obvious examples, but there are also countless others tucked away in contact lists, job files, personnel records and spreadsheets; even a website can be considered a data set.
The internet opens up a whole new vista for such data collection, maintenance and distribution. The opportunities for saving you time, money, and increasing your business efficiency, can be staggering.
all without you lifting a finger
Online databases enable a host of eCommerce1 facilities; for example, customers can buy, book, get quotes and prices, update their information, provide feedback, subscribe to mailing lists and much more - at any time of the day - and all without you lifting a finger! Databases enable such eCommerce facilities
Then there’s your website itself. With a so-called Content Management Systems (CMS), all or part of your website’s text and images are held in a database2. This gives you control of what appears on your site and when; changes can be made by you at any time via a secure admin area of the site and they will be instantly reflected online.
A simple content admin area is great for quickly and easily updating things like pricing and product information, events, news and press-releases, image galleries and portfolios, and links pages, to name a few.
Once your custom database is set up, you can get up and running quickly by converting and import your existing data, from wherever it is currently held: Outlook, Excel, Access, SQL Server or any other popular database.
Depending on the nature of the database, you may also want custom export and download routines to be able to extract the data for further manipulation or use; downloading the results of an online survey to graph it, for example.
Integrating the database with your in-house databases is also possible, allowing you to interrogate or analyse data across your whole data set and get the information you need.
Contact us now to discuss how a bespoke online database or CMS can benefit your business or website.
Further Reading
- eCommerce - databases go hand-in-hand with enabling eCommerce facilities extending beyond online shopping; including data and information exchange between staff, suppliers and customers.
- Dynamically generated website content, from a database, requires special treatment to make it accessible to search engines. See our related SEO Services section.
Examples
- See the Galleries section for many examples of using databases and CMS
