The Rees Media difference
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The bottom line is we can offer you more for your money – website designs and features that are usually only offered by big, expensive web development companies:
- Rees Media is headed by Glenn Rees, editor of Australia's top-selling technology magazine, Australian PC User. As a client of Rees Media, you receive the benefit of Glenn's many years experience in the internet industry and as a journalist and editor.
- Our sites are based on a content management system (CMSA content management system (CMS) is an online application that will allow anyone (with minimal training) to add, edit and manage content (such as text and images) on a website. The other main benefit of a CMS such as Drupal is that it provides a framework of existing code for web developers, reducing the time and cost of building feature-rich websites.), which means you can manage your website's text and pictures yourself – you don’t have to pay (or wait for) a web developer every time you want to add, edit or manage content.
- We only build designer websites – your website will have a unique design, based on your needs and designed to target your customers and clients.
- Whether you want a simple Web presence, community-driven site or sophisticated e-commerce solution, you choose – and pay for – only the features you need.
- You don't pay for expensive software. We use proven, open sourceOpen source is cooperative method of developing and distributing software. The software is free to use by anyone, and the source code is freely available for any developer to work on. Why give it away for free? Well, collectively, these developers can build sophisticated software, such as Firefox, Apache, Drupal and Linux that can be genuinely competitive with commercial software backed by multinationals. Individually, each developer can use the software to greatly enhance their business. technology backed by thousands of developers with a common cause: to deliver the best platform for building websites. Our preferred CMS is DrupalDrupal is a popular content management system (CMS) and framework for building websites. It's the most powerful and flexible of the open source CMS platforms and, due to its popularity, offers many third-party "modules" (extentions) that add extra features such as e-commerce, email newsletters, social networking integration and much more. Drupal is used on thousands of websites by Sony Music, Yahoo, Virgin, Nokia, Symantec and many other businesses and organisations, both large and small., which is used on thousands of websites by Sony Music, Yahoo, Virgin, Nokia, Symantec and many other businesses and organisations, both large and small.
- Our websites are scalable, so your site can grow with your business. You can start with our budget Web Brochure package, upgrade to our Web Premium package later, and then other website features down the track.
- At Rees Media, we pay attention to detail. All of our websites are coded to strictly adhere to modern Web standardsTo quote the Web Standards Group: "The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), along with other groups and standards bodies, has established technologies for creating and interpreting web-based content. These technologies, which we call “web standards,” are carefully designed to deliver the greatest benefits to the greatest number of web users while ensuring the long-term viability of any document published on the Web." and be search engine friendly (SEFSearch engine friendly (SEF) means a website has been structured and coded in the best possible way for search engines, so, for example, the site will have no problems being indexed by and therefore searchable on Google and other search engines. Note that SEF is not the same as SEO, which requires advanced optimization techniques and is available as part of our Web Premium package.). Our post-launch service includes regular security checks, data backups and software updates.
- Not sure what design or features to include on your website? Even our budget Brochure Website includes a free consultation, and we're available for further consulting work.
- We also look at the big picture. You will receive the benefit of our broad experience and our continual research into new internet trends and technologies, yet we never lose sight of the business objectives of your website.