Do you need a CMS for your website?

A CMS lets you update your site's text, images, and posts yourself, without needing to ask anyone or touch any code. It's built into the Growth and Premium packages, and it's a £400 add-on on Starter.

Every maintenance plan already includes some content-update work: Standard includes 2 hours a month, Pro includes 4. Anything beyond that, or on the Essential plan, is billed at £75 an hour. If you change your site rarely, a few hours a year of someone else doing it properly can easily cost less than the CMS add-on.

• You update prices, availability, or offers often enough that waiting on someone else slows you down.
• You want to run a blog and post it yourself rather than sending text over for me to publish.
• You've got several people on your team who might need to make changes.

If your site's content barely changes, a brochure site for a trade business, say, the CMS is a feature you'll rarely open. The included content-update hours on Standard or Pro, or the hourly rate on Essential, will cost you less over a year than owning the tooling to do it yourself.