Edit Your Own Website

Most of our clients want to be able to control what is on their websites, so we now offer QuickStep Website Editor, a very simple and inexpensive solution to doing your own updates.

Here is an overview of how it works.

The Tools

Edit your pages
Edit your meta tags
Articles

How It Works

We're frequently asked whether the use of QuickStep will lock you into a long-term expensive web hosting contract, and whether you lose everything if you change hosts. Absolutely not! You can host your website on any hosting account that includes php. We strongly recommend that the host be running php as a cgi (this is the way most hosts are set up).

Mini Tutorial

  • To edit a page you "trigger" QuickStep by double-clicking anywhere in the footer of the page. The first time you do this a window will open for you to log in. After that (as long as your browser is open) you will not have to log in again.
  • The trigger causes green Edit Tags to appear. They mark the pre-defined "Editable Regions". Click one to edit that text.
  • After you click a green Edit Tag the content of the corresponding Editable Region will appear in a text editor. You'll make your changes and then click a Save icon or the Publish link.
  • Changes are saved directly to the live website. If you don't see the changes you made just Refresh the page to clear the old version out of your cache. You navigate the website normally to get to any page you want to edit, and double-click its footer to edit.

Cost

$200 if QuickStep is installed when we build your website.

If we built your website previously without edit tools, and you want to add them later, there will be an extra charge. The amount will depend on your website, so ask for an estimate.

For a website we did not build, retrofitting editing tools is much more complex. In some cases it will not be possible at all without completely rebuilding the html of each page. Chances are it would be cheaper to just have us build you a new website.

Once QuickStep is installed there are no ongoing charges to use the tools.

Services

Website Design

Website Templates

Consultation

Logo Design

Content Editing

Image Selection

Search Engine Optimization

Edit Your Own Website

Hosting

Contact Form Development

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