Once you have decided to invest in a custom content management system, there are few essential things you need to do.
Decide What Features You Want For Your Website
Think about what value you want to offer your target audience. What are the most important functions for your business? At this stage, you have to decide which aspects are crucial for you in your CMS.
What kind of content do you want to publish on your website? Whether it's mainly video, audio, ebooks, blogs, or maybe a 3D journey, this is one of the factors in determining what technology the development team will use to build your CMS.
Think about user experience, what is important to you from a business point of view?
Find a Reliable Development Team
Once you know what you want for your custom CMS, it's time to look for a development team that can make it happen. Take your time and check their experience and opinions of other customers. You want to choose experts you can trust to make your website meet all your expectations.
Organize a meeting with the project manager of the development team. Share your ideas with them and watch the communication flow. They should give you details of potential cooperation and indicate what more information they will need from you.
At Order Group, we have experience in building custom CMS for companies from various industries. We are open to new challenges, so if you need our help, contact us.
Start the Process
Now that you've found a reliable team of developers to work on your website, it's time to schedule a few meetings together. Use these meetings to share all your CMS ideas, clarify business goals for the website, and agree on delivery time.
The development team will walk you through the entire process and together make a plan for the development process. decide which features are key from the start and discuss possible future add-ons.
Once the development team has all the necessary information, they will work on presenting a possible layout so that you can decide if it is right for you and make some adjustments. They will also decide what technologies to use in the project and estimate the budget necessary to successfully build your CMS.
Ensure clear communication between your team and development experts. If the development team has additional questions, try to provide feedback as soon as possible so that the process can continue immediately. This will speed up the development process.
Enjoy the Results
Once the website is ready, the development team will present your CMS, explain all the details and ask for feedback.
You can finally see the design come true. Browse all landing pages, check all desktop and mobile features. Give feedback to the development team as some improvements can be made at this stage before the final launch of the website.
Below you can see some of the results of the custom CMS we built for Unilink. We have designed a fully customizable module-based CMS that can adjust to the changing needs. We made sure that this CMS is SEO friendly and allows Unilink to run A/B testing.
