Simple content management for simple websites
Widgetfinger is a CMS made for web design firms who provide maintenance and hosting for their clients’ “brochure-style” websites (sites with ‘Home’, ‘About’, ‘Service’ and ‘Contact us’ pages – and not much else). The application handles all of the things you’re currently doing yourself to host these sites, while giving your clients the one simple thing they ask for – the ability to edit their website content without emailing you.
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Recent activity at a glance
Widgetfinger’s site dashboard allows you to see a quick overview of all activity for the clients and sites you manage all in one central place. This view provides quick access into different areas of the application with links to each client, site, and user in your account.
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Copy separated from design
Quickly create new web sites and pages using a straightforward template-based system – and then give your clients direct access to edit their website content. The design tool lets you create layouts with valid markup without worrying about copy editing, and allows your client to change the site copy without learning a complicated WYSIWG editor interface.
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Focus on design instead of systems admin
Whether you currently host your clients’ websites on separate hosting accounts or lease dedicated servers, Widgetfinger can automate the configuration and maintenance steps, and allow per-site control over the things that matter: DNS, Web Analytics, and email hosting. Each account gets unmetered disk space and bandwidth, and unlimited users, clients, sites and pages.
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Real time in-page copy changes
The Widgetfinger editor will enable your design staff (and your clients) to edit a live web site in real time, viewing it exactly as it appears on the internet. The editor can also help maintain standards compliant XHTML and CSS code by thoroughly separating content from design, and by not relying on on a clunky WYSIWYG editor that produces messy content.
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Team members working together
Widgetfinger supports separate user accounts for each person on your design team and any number of client users on any site. The different access permissions for the two user types allows clients to work only on the sites you provide for them – while allowing your whole design team full access to all clients and sites.
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Widgetfinger combines all of the tasks you’re currently doing for your clients websites: hosting, content management, statistics tracking and email hosting – and combines it into one convenient monthly fee per active site.
A site is only active once it’s available at a non-widgetfinger.com domain name. This way, it’s easy to build new sites and get familiar with widgetfinger without being charged. Get started with widgetfinger for free today!
