Island Design Works

Your viewers may not be able to see the difference between an old-style site, built pain-stakingly and expensively by hand, and one using a content management system, but you will, right where it matters, in costs, time and results.

What is it?

Content Management Systems (CMS) are web applications intended to control the repetitive aspects of running a web site:

• storing content
• building pages to match your site design
• uploading of files and images
• revising and editing pages
• site search engine
• expanding sections and navigation menus

A CMS will allow just about anyone to add new content, revise old content, and manage the site structure from an Internet browser. If you can use e-mail, hotmail for example, you can be taught to use a CMS.
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All elements of a project require planning and consideration before beginning work. It’s how the design team and client arrive a mutually satisfactory solution and budget. It’s important to us that we find that careful balance between creative demands, communication needs and budget that will result in a solution that not only works well, but will continue to do so for quite some time. We’re serious about achieving success and that takes planning and method.
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Can IDW help you with your print work? You bet.

With over 20 years experience in the printing industry producing everything from coffee-table books to post cards your project can be successfully managed from start to finish.

The most effective way to optimize both your budget and the impact of your marketing and communicatiosn efforts is to ensure that your various media efforts — from print, to multimedia, to web — are co-ordinated and support one another. That’s the focus and skillset that IDW brings to your projects.
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