We're not going to fool you - Gazette is nothing like an "off the shelf" solution, or "site-in-a-box". It's a seriously heavy duty suite of online tools, designed primarily for mid to large scale publishers and industry specialists.
Get the edge on your competitors
As a web designer, you can leverage those tools to build sites for your clients at a fraction of the cost, and in a fraction of the time, than it would take to build from scratch.
You'd be able to offer them a complete online CMS with
- 24 hour email tech support
- Comprehensive Users Guide
- Established track record
You'd be able to offer them any of the standard Feature packages
- Built-in newsletter subscription and delivery
- Built-in blogging engine
- Secure membership logins for premium content
- Built-in third party advertising code
- Built-in traffic analysis tools
- Built-in magazine and periodical content management
Leverage our expertise
Web design is a competitive business, no doubt about it. You're great at what you do - site architecture, HTML code, visual design, client liaison, project scoping - but you're missing out on the bigger projects.
If you ever think:
- That you need to learn programming.
- Your team spends more time quoting than working.
- If you had the skills and experience of the bigger players, you'd nail them on price every time.
Gazette is a tested and proven system for building interactive online publications and web sites of all sizes.
You can use Gazette to build client sites.
In fact, we'll help you do it, because we're interested in expanding our total user base and honing the Gazette tools for everyone that uses it.
You will tweak the standard templates to meet your clients needs, add the CSS, follow the guidelines in the Designers and Developers Guides.
Simply factor Gazette ASP fees into your quotes for hosting and maintenance.
You can build a site in days that would take any of your competition months if they had to build it from scratch.
Static HTML Snap Shots
You have the choice of handing over site maintenance to your clients, or just using Gazette to make your maintenance fees a real money earner.
If you want to build a static web site, you can still use Gazette. Once everything is just how you want it, grab a snapshot of the site and ftp it up to your client's server. Whenever you need to, make the changes in Gazette and grab another snapshot. Simple.
Craft demos before you tender.
As an established Gazette Development Partner, you'll have your own development area, which you can use to build quick demos for potentail clients - imagine the advantage that will give you against even the biggest of your competition.
Thirdfloor uses the Gazette tools inhouse to build client web sites. Some of our larger clients have their own development teams that use the Gazette templating system to create their own fully functional sites without any backend programming.
If you're interested in using Gazette to expand your web design business, contact us.
11 Apr 2005 @ 10:09 PM
Did you know?
... that authors spend up to fifty percent of their time on a document’s appearance instead of its content? You can as much as double the productivity of your subject matter experts by automating the publishing process and relieving them from responsibility for page layouts and design. And the savings are compounded when multichannel publishing is involved.
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We love to partner with web design firms of any size,
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