What makes a content management system easy?  With so many build your own website options out there, many claiming to have a “free and easy” CMS, it’s worth taking a closer look at what indeed makes for an easy content management system.  

The best judge of what makes an effortless editing system truly comes from people with little or no web experience. There are CMS plug-ins geared more toward web designers or Seattle web design agencies, but the focus of this post is “easy CMS” as defined by non-technical people.  Ultimately, a CMS that gives someone who is not technically savvy a simple way to update their website’s content and makes life easier, is the goal.  So, with that in mind, here are the top 3 things to look for when looking for an easy CMS. 

Our goal as the web design team for Holy Lamb Organics, a small, local manufacturer of organic bedding was to create a new site, one that was warm and inviting and would beautifully showcase their products in an online store.  Like many businesses with an online storefront, integrating e-commerce with their site was a very important element in this project.  

Read here for our tips to creating a successful e-commerce website.  

This week, our office has been in a state of disarray.  After being in our space for almost a year, we are finally getting around to painting and making some improvements to it that we had been planning since signing the lease.  What can I say, we’ve been busy.

So, now we are in the awkward phase of beautification. Conducting business as usual amid tarps and tape, desks pushed to the middle of the room, working around painters on ladders - I know this will all be over soon and we can put things back in order.  And when we do it will be way nicer. 

Last week we launched dogwhistlebook.com, a site that coincides with the launch of Chuck McCutcheon and David Mark’s new book, Dog Whistles, Walk Backs & Washington Hand Shakes.  In their book, McCutcheon and Mark, two very successful authors with long careers in politics and government, humorously decode “the jargon, slang and bluster of American political speech”. Designing a website which is focused on a single book is a lot of fun -- especially with a book as entertaining as this one...

Take the design challenge - Flat Design vs Realism, which one are you?  

Mark, our creative director, was amused by this Webby award-winning interactive infographic.  Check it out and send us a message with your vote!