Secure Database Administration Area for Real Time Management

Secure Database Administration Area
for Real Time Management

Every CCFDesign.com site comes with a way for you to quickly manage the content on your site. Here are some of the things you can do in the admin area.

Note: this is written as goat specific, but can be easily applied to other breeds of animals, as well as multiple breeds on a single site (one site has goats, sheep, cows, llamas, dogs and others)..

Add / Modify an Animal

You can add an animal to appear on the for sale page, or on a category page like Bucks, Does, Wethers, New Kids, or Show Goats. In the admin area, you can add the following;

Name
Sex
Breed
DOB
Price
Sire and Dam
Expand to a 3 Generation Pedigree
Description (using a text editor to allow formatting)
3 Pictures
Captions for the Pictures

You can then update the information at your convenience, including changing the sale price, marking the goat as sold, replacing the pictures with updated pictures, changing the captions, moving the goat from the bucks to the sales page, or deleting the goat from the site.

There is also a way to generate paypal links that you can send in email to allow a customer to pay online by credit card.

Add Page Text

On the site, you will have a number of areas that you can directly update the text on the page. This allows you to make temporary announcements on your site at the touch of your fingers.

Most people use these areas to indicate that they have posted new goats for sale, or that they are going to be attending a particular show over the weekend, or that they have acquired a new buck.

An HTML editor is present on the server, allowing you to format your text in a variety of ways, including using bold text, colored text, HTML headers, and tables.

This simple to use system allows you to frequently make small updates on your site -- something search engines like to see to know that the site is an active web site.

View Contact Forms

Every time someone visits your site and fills out a contact form, their information is added to your database. So, if you have email difficulties somewhere down the line, your forms are saved and you will not have lost those contacts.

View Website Statistics

Through the admin area, you will be provided with a link to view advanced statistics of your site, including the number of visitors your site is getting, how they are being referred, and what pages they are looking at.

View Archived CCFDesign Newsletters

You can also go back and see all of the old CCFDesign.com newsletters, which are full of marketing information to help you get your site listed in all of the locations it needs to be listed, and get more visitors (and more sales).

Coming Soon...

The admin area is continually growing. Here are some components that are going to be added in the next few months:

Satisfied Customers Module

With the satisfied customers module, you will be able to upload testimonials and pictures from sales you have made on your site. This is a powerful way to show people that other buyers in the market have confidence in your product - and will be easily updated in the admin area.

Pictures Pages

With the pictures pages, you will be able to upload pictures to your site that do not seem to fit with any of your other pages. As an example, you might have a few llamas on your farm, but they are not for sale, and you do not want to showcase them in their own page. With the Pictures pages, you can put their pictures there, and put captions for all of the pictures. This will be a great way to update your friends and family with new pictures of your (human) kids or grandkids.

Home Page Pictures

Some people just want to change a single picture at the top of their home pave on a reoccurring basis. Soon, this capability will be realized. Additionally, this could extend to other portions of the site - allowing you to replace a winter picture with a spring picture, then a summer picture.

Spam Free Guestbook

Over the years, a number of people have asked if having a guestbook would be a good idea, and until now, the answer was usually no, because they were subject to immense amounts of spam. Soon, however, we will roll out a spam-free guestbook, that has moderation capabilities and image verification.

Simple Order Form

If you want to sell goat milk cheese or soap or another single item type, you can set this up in your admin area. This is not a shopping cart (which can run a lot of money), but is a form that people can fill out and place invoicable orders from your site (think of it like a paper catalog order form).

Testing is underway on two of our sites right now, so this option could be available now, if you need it.

...and that's not all. There are other things in the planning stage. If you have any additional ideas for what you would like to be able to do on your site, don't hesitate to ask. Most of these ideas came from existing customers who had a desire, and the admin area allows that to be fulfilled.

Gregory Motes
CCFDesign.com

Phone: (813) 990-0900
10910 Lakeside Vista
Riverview, FL 33569
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