ConcreteCMS

Introducing ConcreteCMS

ConcreteCMS (formerly Concrete5) is a "Content Management System" (CMS).  CMS's allow you to make updates to your website yourself, without needing to delve into the HTML to make changes.

Do you find it frustrating to update your website, with little access or you can't find how to do what you need to do?  If so then ConcreteCMS can take away those frustrations and make editing your site really easy!

We believe that ConcreteCMS is the best CMS in the market, because it has been designed to be really easy and intuitive to use.  "In-context" editing means you edit your websites' pages on the "front-end", as you look at them.

ConcreteCMS development

If you are already familiar with ConcreteCMS, you may need help that you aren’t getting at the moment.  

As an official ConcreteCMS Service Partner, our team of ConcreteCMS developers undertake a huge variety of ConcreteCMS development projects, from new builds to maintenance and amends on existing websites.

Are you experiencing any of these problems?

• Poor value from current agency or developer
• Current agency or developer doesn’t have the expertise you need
• Hard to get answers from our current agency or developers
• Poor communication from current agency, leading to poor results, or misunderstanding or can’t even get hold of the right people to talk to

We can certainly help out, get in touch today for an initial chat.

You may not be familiar with ConcreteCMS, please check out this blog post on 10 great sites that use ConcreteCMS.

ConcreteCMS could be the platform you are looking for!
 

Challenges we solve with ConcreteCMS

ConcreteCMS is powerful, allowing us to solve many challenges.  If any of these frustrations sound familar then you are going to love ConcreteCMS!:

• Current site is difficult to update or bugs/errors updating it

• Understanding your requirements, propose ConcreteCMS, plan site properly, build to be reliable, flexible and stable, as lightweight as possible

• Custom blocks/Dashboard pages that make complex tasks easy

• Slow website - ConcreteCMS “built right” is well optimised for performance and efficiency.  Potentially a change hosting will help

• Security issues, potentially in breach of GDPR

• SEO issues making you uncompetitive.   Fix technical website issues, propose new content and propose our SEO Service

• Need to upgrade the site due to new hosting requirements

• Current site hacked and looking for a more robust solution

We have solved all of these issues and more for our clients in the past.  Using ConcreteCMS we can take away the frustrations you are facing with your current website and deliver an easy to update, low maintenance, low cost solution that works hard for you.

New to ConcreteCMS?

ConcreteCMS is a purpose built CMS. Fit for purpose. Point and click, where you can make any change whenever you want to.

ConcreteCMS is up to date and future proof which means it doesn’t require constant work to keep it up to date like a lot of other systems.  It is open source so there are no subscription costs.

Like any software, Concrete does need some updates, but they are infrequent and can be planned for.

ConcreteCMS also offers excellent “on page SEO” and we would build the site so you can easily add more pages to grow it in the future so this website will last you a very long time.

We have a team of specialist ConcreteCMS developers and have been working with Concrete5/ConcreteCMS for over ten years.

Made Simple Media is an official ConcreteCMS Service Partner, registered with the ConcreteCMS team.  We have completed official ConcreteCMS Accreditations, which shows our knowledge of the platform and enables us to operate as an Agency with Partner Status.

We offer an in-person ConcreteCMS training course that usually takes a few hours and will take you through all the most commonly used features of the CMS so you can edit and add to your website yourself.  You will have a chance to ask questions and try it out during the course.  Training can easily be conducted via Zoom or Teams and is ideal for one to four participants.

Through our hosting partner, we can directly offer UK based hosting that is perfectly suited to ConcreteCMS and runs websites efficiently and reliably.  Our hosting is reasonably priced and perfect for your ConcreteCMS based website, with free SSL cert, daily backups and a free domain name.

If you want to learn more, check out this article about ConcreteCMS, from one of our copywriters Katie.