We produced the Ruxley Manor Garden Centre web site in late 2006. The business was founded in 1876 but the new highly-designed site brings the image of Ruxley Manor right up to date for the 21st century.
There is a lot of hidden functionality that allows authorised staff at Ruxley to control various sections of the site.
The Christmas page, menu item and home page graphic automatically appear at the relevant time of year and then disappear when the festive season is all over. The admin system we built allows Ruxley to add Christmas articles as well as to upload pictures to the page.
The Special Promotions section is also fully controlled in-house. They can add new promotions and even choose to make it a voucher promotion so that the site visitor can print off the voucher and take it along to the centre and redeem it there.
The Garden Advice section will eventually grow in to a library of advice articles branded with the Ruxley Manor name and logo. Here too they are able to add articles in-house as well as to upload a series of pictures to illustrate each article.
The Job Opportunities page likewise is fully updateable in-house. Vacancies can be added, modified and deleted.
Putting the customer in control
When you have sections of a site that need to be updated regularly, you don’t want to keep going back to your web design company to ask them to do it; it may take time and, of course, will mean regular bills for the additional work.
What we always do at the beginning of a project is to look at a site and determine which areas are likely to need frequent changes and then recommend that the client has full control over these sections – the ability to add, modify and delete content whenever they want from any PC.
As outlined on the left, there are several areas of the Ruxley Manor site that have benefited from this approach.
We produced the Ruxley Manor Garden Centre web site in late 2006. The business was founded in 1876 but the new highly-designed site brings the image of Ruxley Manor right up to date for the 21st century. 
