Website design & development

Maintain your own website from any PC, through a windows-like interface that requires no programming skill.

Is this the Holy Grail of web design? Probably. Oh yes, you don't need to pay us a cent for making changes to your site.

We treat websites as continuously evolving projects and will give you the ability to update new information about your organisation yourselves through our Xstream™ Content Management System. The ability to update the content of your own website easily and quickly will help ensure your website is always up to date as well as save you money.

Digital Stream has created Xstream Content Management to hand you the maintenance of your site. We create the site, templates and all the other boring techie stuff and then protect it from you, so you don't need to worry about stuffing things up! You get:

• a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) interface
• Professionally designed template - every page has the right look and feel
• A professional (CSS) style sheet to maintain the look and feel of your content
• Intuitive design that takes about 30 minutes to master
• 0800 Help desk and comprehensive manual with details screenshots

You can even choose to have dynamic pages - create new pages for your site easily and effectively.

Xstream Content Management works alongside  Xstream News and Xstream Events - you can maintain a dynamic News section or Events Calendar on your site.

For more information or a demo, please contact:

Russell Brown on 0800 DIGITAL (0800 344482)

Breaking News - Client updates Online News as it happens!

...In breaking news today, a company has added news and events to their website in a matter of minutes.
A spokesperson said that a junior staff member, not a web designer added this information. Old information has been archived automatically and news can be embargoed for release on a particular date...

You will have seen the end result of this type of software on every news site; journalists, not web designers, add the content directly onto the site. Even sports events can be updated every minute or two.

This is not just available to the big media players with massive budgets. Sports clubs, charities, businesses and educational institutes can add:

News	e.g. Power cuts likely in Otago following accident
Upcoming Events	e.g. Mt Roskill tree-planting day. Volunteers wanted
Product Launches	e.g. New Canon printer to be launched in July.
Free Training Courses	e.g. Business training for franchise holders

Digital Stream has created Xstream News to make this easy.

Creating, posting and archiving news articles for the technically-challenged.

Visit Hamilton City Council or National Heart Foundation to view this in action, or contact us for more information.

Russell Brown on 0800 DIGITAL (0800 344482)

Create and maintain an events calendar on your site.

The Xstream Events module allows you to create and change events in minutes. It includes

• WYSIWYG interface with familiar Word-style options like Bold and Bullet Points
• Create your own categories for visitors to select, e.g. Sports events, School fairs, Open days etc.
• Automatic archiving of old events
• Automatic formatting, font, colours, navigation etc
• Insert images, tables or hyperlinks (internal or external)

This can be customised to suit your needs. Digital Stream will build the Events to be added to any part of your site - perhaps a quick search option for your home page and a full display of events for the Events page on your site.

You will greatly enhance the value of the information on your site by keeping it current. Xstream Events gives you peace of mind because the events are automatically categorised and sorted, meaning that you don't have to rebuild your site.

Keep it simple. Contact us for more information