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How Affiliation Can Increase Your Profits
There are many benefits to Sitemaker for an experienced designer. They boil down to:
Productivity!
Complete Data Management
All your content is maintained by the Sitemaker database. Nothing falls off the site in the night. Move components around on pages and see the results instantly. Copy pages as models or create page templates for repeated use. Make changes from any web browser anywhere.
Solid Navigation
Sitemaker maintains structured lists of pages, sections and (with the Journalmaker upgrade) articles. These appear respectively as menus, main or subordinate tables of contents, or article lists, which are maintained in the Sitemaker database with all links to referrers and subordinated pages. This means that you don't have to maintain a navigation table or remember where you put a page in a folder full of files. A site map is inherent in the structure of the site.
Rapid Development and Deployment
You can use Sitemaker for a finished site or just use it for rapid prototyping.
Grab a template and start filling in data (text, graphics...). Choose supplemental tools like article lists, gallery, forms... Your site will come together in a few minutes.
Now go back and be more selective about backgrounds, colors, graphics, fonts... Your site will assume a unique identity quickly.
You can build many sites in the time you formerly used to build one. Take a break - five minutes or a month - all of them will be there when you return. And you can make changes from anywhere without access to your personal computer; it's all web-based.
We do not doubt that you could eventually do all these things independently, but why? We've already found most of the data management traps you could fall into, and by affiliation you can devote your time to your clients, not to your keyboard.
Grab a template and start filling in data (text, graphics...). Choose supplemental tools like article lists, gallery, forms... Your site will come together in a few minutes.
Now go back and be more selective about backgrounds, colors, graphics, fonts... Your site will assume a unique identity quickly.
You can build many sites in the time you formerly used to build one. Take a break - five minutes or a month - all of them will be there when you return. And you can make changes from anywhere without access to your personal computer; it's all web-based.
We do not doubt that you could eventually do all these things independently, but why? We've already found most of the data management traps you could fall into, and by affiliation you can devote your time to your clients, not to your keyboard.
Image
In addition to the easy of management, your client site(s) will have an integrated image that reflects the client's business and its other communications.
Sure, you could cobble together something from one provider and something from another, but Sitemaker and Journalmaker give each site a professional look and feel that reflects your talents and the client's objectives.
Sure, you could cobble together something from one provider and something from another, but Sitemaker and Journalmaker give each site a professional look and feel that reflects your talents and the client's objectives.
Limitations
Do you give up anything? The answer is an unqualified maybe.
If you're really good with page design, you may be able to define page layouts that Sitemaker does not have - yet. You may be able to apply esoteric features that haven't yet made their way into common practice. And your ISP may allow you access to certain parts of your server that we keep restricted on our shared platform.
That said, we believe that Sitemaker can deliver over 80 percent of the page layout and design options one can do with ordinary "code and load" procedures. And if you know HTML, CSS and their derivatives you can add visual complexity with cascading style sheets in selected sites, pages or components. Is a bit of training required? Yes. Is it expensive or time consuming? No.
Sitemaker and Journalmaker are for every person but not for every site. Custom sites on our platform can take advantage of tools like newsletters and galleries. Sitemaker and Journalmaker are very flexible, and it's highly likely we can adapt to your requirements. We make no effort to be the low-cost provider; your clients will get true value by maximizing your productivity and their own.
Finally, we do not require exclusivity. We invite you to develop sites on our platform while taking advantage of other providers as seems best to serve your clients.
If you're really good with page design, you may be able to define page layouts that Sitemaker does not have - yet. You may be able to apply esoteric features that haven't yet made their way into common practice. And your ISP may allow you access to certain parts of your server that we keep restricted on our shared platform.
That said, we believe that Sitemaker can deliver over 80 percent of the page layout and design options one can do with ordinary "code and load" procedures. And if you know HTML, CSS and their derivatives you can add visual complexity with cascading style sheets in selected sites, pages or components. Is a bit of training required? Yes. Is it expensive or time consuming? No.
Sitemaker and Journalmaker are for every person but not for every site. Custom sites on our platform can take advantage of tools like newsletters and galleries. Sitemaker and Journalmaker are very flexible, and it's highly likely we can adapt to your requirements. We make no effort to be the low-cost provider; your clients will get true value by maximizing your productivity and their own.
Finally, we do not require exclusivity. We invite you to develop sites on our platform while taking advantage of other providers as seems best to serve your clients.