Making Edits To Your Own Site (Self Maintenance)

So you have a website now, how are you going to make edits to keep the site fresh?

Many designers, graphXdiva included, offer several ways to accomplish this. The design firm can set up a maintenance plan with a set amount of hours you can accrue and have all the edits to your site done by the designer. The process usually consists of an email being sent to the designer with any text and/or photos to be added, then the designer schedules your maintenance. This works very well provided you are able to wait 24-48 hours for your edits to be completed.

Another way to maintain and freshen up your site is for you, the site owner to make the edits. Several options like www.edit.com and Adobe Contribute offer owners such as yourself the ability to make minor and moderate edits to your site. Typically, your designer will “lock” certain areas of the site like navigation and graphics so your site isn’t altered after you make your edits. Looking like a typical word processing program, the software can either be accessed via the internet (www.edit.com) by anyone you provide the login information to, or will reside on your computer. If you need more than one computer accessible to the site, you would need to purchase more licenses if you use a program like Adobe Contribute.

All in all, one of the biggest ups to editing the site yourself is that it can be done anytime….you know when you have those moments of inspiration at 2am in your bunny slippers. Oh wait that’s how I am most of the time when I’m designing…lol.

Keep in mind that having a fresh website will not only please the search engines, but more importantly it will keep your customers coming back to see what’s new.