Our Manage and Build plans include a content management system. Change your text, swap your images, and keep your site up to date.
One of the most common frustrations we hear from small business owners is that updating their website means emailing a developer, waiting for a response, paying for an hour of work, and hoping it gets done correctly. For something as simple as changing a phone number or updating business hours.
While we can do that for you in our Handled plan, where we manage everything for you except the blog, we also offer plans where you can edit site the site yourself.
Our Manage and Build plans include a content management system. A simple dashboard where you can edit the parts of your site that need to change. We configure it specifically around your workflow, so you only see what you need to edit. No cluttered menus, no risk of accidentally breaking the design.
Update your headlines, body copy, and images directly from your browser. No code, no FTP, no developer required.
Save your changes and an automatic rebuild kicks off. Your site updates itself and is usually live within a couple of minutes.
We set up your dashboard and walk you through exactly what you need. We also include a brief video outlining how to use our CMS.
We don't hand you a complex system and wish you luck. We configure it around what you specifically need to edit.
Need a team member to update the menu or post announcements? We can set up individual logins with access to only what they need.
Your design, layout, and code are locked. Editors can only change content, so there is no way to accidentally undo something that took hours to build.
There's an important distinction between managing your content and managing your website. Most page builders like Wix and Squarespace blur that line. You're given full access to the entire site structure, which means the risk of breaking something is real and constant. We often find that regular business owners struggle with this, or they build a site and forget to do things like the mobile version.
The way we build things keeps those two things separate. Your developer-built design, layout, and functionality are completely protected. Your content (the words, images, and information) is what you control.
The system we use is called Directus. It's a modern, open-source content platform used by organisations around the world. For our clients, it presents as a clean, minimal dashboard tailored specifically to their site, with only the fields relevant to their content visible.
You don't need to know what Directus is to use it. Most clients are comfortable updating their own content within the first session after handover. We provide a short training walkthrough as part of every build, and we're always available if you get stuck.
That depends on your site, but typically: page text, images, team members, services, pricing, opening hours, and any other content that needs to change regularly. We configure the dashboard to match your specific site during the build.
Content changes can be reviewed and reverted. Your design and layout are completely protected. Editors can only change content fields, not the structure or code of the site.
No. The dashboard runs in your browser. You log in from any device (desktop, tablet, or phone) with just a username and password.
The CMS is included on our Build and Manage plans. The Handled plan is fully managed by us but the CMS is used for blog posts.
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