Why Are You Still Wasting Time Managing Your Website?
If you’ve ever tried launching a site for your project, you know that it’s all fun and games until you have to integrate a database. Not anymore, though!
When you get your hands dirty to build a website for your project, you quickly see that it’s harder than you thought.
Even the best site-building tools don’t have everything that creative entrepreneurs need, so some functionalities need to be added manually.
But your business depends on your web presence, so your website has to be perfect.
To give you some inspiration, here’s a few ideas how to overcome the limitations of a traditional CMS without doing much extra work.
Automate Content Management Using The Most Common Business Tool
What’s the one tool that almost everyone in the start-up game uses?
Spreadsheets.
For collecting data, using complex formulae to crunch numbers, and from now on to publish content on your website.
Our first example comes from a website for the Sundance Mountain Resort.
The whole website is beautiful, but one bit is my favorite. Let me explain why.
You see, this resort is not always easy to get to. Sometimes the roads are closed off because of extreme weather conditions.
The Sundance team made it their responsibility to inform customers whether it’s safe enough to drive, and what weather they can expect.
They met this responsibility by using Sheetsu for this content block. Weather data is collected in a simple-to-use Google Sheets file and it is published on the site automatically.
This way everyone on the team can use this functionality, and the website is more useful for the customers because it provides important information.
Our second site is the Open Speakers Database.
This is a real example of using technology for the greater good. It is managed by a small team that forms a student coalition and hosts a platform for Open Access, Open Education, and Open Data.
To build and maintain this huge database, this site relies on allowing the community to access it and add data about regional experts on the three above topics.
Data is held in a public spreadsheet which can be accessed and commented on by anyone. Speakers can also easily update their listings, or even remove them.
It’s all really simple to use, and relies on using Sheetsu to integrate the website with the spreadsheet.
All this allows a small team to safely manage a global database of speakers.
Our third example is the Houston Reader.
This publication’s team has more than one way to publish new content on the site.
One of these ways utilizes Sheetsu to add content to the website with Google Sheets.
It’s easy to use and in some cases can definitely save the journalists some time.
The last example is blackfridaytech.co.
The creators of this website were aiming to collect all of the best Black Friday deals in the technology industry.
And they’ve done a great job thanks to simplifying content management (another case of using Sheetsu to publish data from a spreadsheet automatically), and relying on community support.
Anyone can submit a deal that they’ve found by using a Google Form that’s linked on the bottom of the site. Neat!
What Ideas Do You Have For Your Website?
Hopefully these examples have inspired you to rethink how you manage content on your site.
Now it’s your turn.
How will you use Sheetsu to make your website stand out from the competition?
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