SAUCE CUSTOM SITE WITH {BLOG} FEATURE

When you choose a Sauce Custom website, you have the option of the additional feature of a Blog.

A blog is a great way to engage potential and existing customers and to generate repeat visits to your website and business. Not only can you advise customers of news and events, you can keep them up to date with specials, invite feedback, or promote new products and services. Visitors can subscribe to your blog and be notified whenever there is a new post, which makes for a friendly and direct point of contact with your target audience.

Your Blog can be a simple standard layout styled to compliment your site design, or can be created as an additional custom design with its own identity (in harmony) within your website.

The Blog functionality has the added benefit of giving you access to some basic page editing features, via a content management system (CMS). This allows you to add, edit and/or remove certain site pages with ease. (If you require a higher-end CMS then consider our web bundles - such as Sauce Advanced or Sauce Premium).

setup and INCLUSIONS

  • Professionally designed website, custom built for your business
  • Navigation and number of web pages scoped to your individual requirements. (A page is defined as equivalent of 1 standard A4 page of text approx 450 words)
  • Site will be developed in HTML and CSS code only
  • Blog Feature - customisation options will depend upon your requirements
  • Contact Form included

What is a Blog?

A blog (short for weblog) is an online journal with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. It is frequently updated and intended for general public consumption. Blogs are defined by their format: a series of entries posted in a page, generally in reverse-chronological order.

Blogs are very modern and fashionable and reflect current user trends.

Features of the Blog:

  • Mail Subscribers - invite visitors to subscribe to your blog! Not only can they find out what exciting new things are happening in your business but you can also access this mail group to send out email newsletters - a 'soft-sell' yet direct point of contact with your customers
  • Comments - you can post an entry and invite visitors or past customers to write a comment. For example, use the blog to promote a new product, service or event and invite customer feedback
  • RSS Feeds - users can subscribe to your site via an RSS feed and obtain up to the minute site updates. RSS feeds have the added benefit of improving your page ranking in search engine results, also known as search engine optimisation (SEO). Click to find out more about SEO
  • Admin Section - allows your staff to login to a secure area of the site and add, edit and delete website pages (in 'Entry' format)
  • Contact Form - allows visitors to use a form which will e-mail you directly
  • Statistics - find out about your Blog statistics which are available within the admin area

Note: The Blog is created in Coldfusion, and your hosting needs to support this code. If your current host does not support Coldfusion, we can recommend some reliable and stable hosts.

EXAMPLES OF THE SAUCE BLOG

http://www.cwl.nsw.gov.au/blog.htm
http://www.atyourlibrary.nsw.gov.au/blog.htm
http://www.wordsoutwest.com.au/client/