Journal Press

Wednesday, 08 April 2009 05:00

A content management system can dramatically change how easy it is to manage content on news-type websites.

Journal Press, Inc. publishes a weekly newspaper covering King George and Westmoreland counties and the town of Colonial Beach in Virginia. They also broker commercial printing. Journal Press has had a website since about 1995. They were and early adopter for the internet; and went online before the regional daily paper. The Journal is a small woman-owned business; Ruth Herrink purchased the paper in 1984 and Jessica Herrink joined the paper in 1988.

Jessica Herrink of the Journal team says:

"At The Journal we needed to update our website. But we are not website designers and in the current economy we have to watch our expenses. I knew I needed content management software and had tried to figure out Joomla, but it was too complicated for me. I found the Simplweb site on a Friday evening, and by Monday morning I had a new website.  Simplweb makes it easy to use Joomla and we ended up saving money over the cost of our original website."

Check out this great example of a news site using Simplweb, www.journalpress.com.