Craft CMS Development
Your vision, our craft
Craft CMS is one of the most flexible content management systems, with an intuitive control panel and customisable fields and content structures.
At PWD, our expert Craft CMS developers in Perth build custom websites tailored to your business needs. Once live, managing and updating content is easy, thanks to Craft’s user-friendly interface, perfect for eCommerce sites too.
Our designers specialise in creating visually striking, fully customised websites. With strong design and development skills, the PWD team delivers high-performance sites packed with the features your business needs to thrive.
What is Craft CMS?
Craft CMS is a licensed content management system (CMS) empowering Craft developers to build truly flexible, fully customised Craft websites. Though licensed, its source code is open for inspection, fostering collaboration, easy integration with third-party tools, and custom Craft plugin development. It’s created by the Pixel & Tonic team (led by Brandon Kelly).
A dedicated marketplace offers Craft developers access to numerous plugins and integrations, backed by an active Craft developer community. This open architecture allows Craft designers to create highly customised, engaging web pages. At PWD, our Craft CMS development focuses on tailored Craft websites meeting your specific business needs. Craft CMS is a popular, user-friendly CMS known for its flexibility, rich functionality, and simple content management, making it a top choice for modern websites with its clean control panel.
Our standard inclusions
Choose PWD as your Perth Craft CMS agency for a tailored digital Craft solution with dedicated ongoing support for all your Craft CMS sites.
- A dedicated PWD team member manages your Craft CMS project.
- No generic templates: 100% unique Craft CMS websites, designed with custom templates for your brand. We create bespoke Craft CMS sites.
- Optimised Page Speed for all Craft CMS sites.
- Best-practice SEO in our Craft CMS development for long-term Google search visibility.
- Fully responsive Craft sites, compatible on all devices.
- Integrate Craft CMS features: live chat, contact forms, Google Maps.
- Launch-ready Craft website with social media links; email marketing setup assistance available.
- Google Analytics & Tag Manager for Craft CMS performance tracking; site configuration by our team.
- Craft CMS security features plus extra protection from our Craft CMS developers for your Craft site.
- Handover training for your team on Craft CMS updates, site management, and user groups.
- Technical support post-launch for your new Craft site; various Craft support packages offered.
Craft CMS compared to the rest
Choosing the right CMS is vital for your business needs. See how Craft CMS, a leading CMS, compares for your next web development project.
WordPress uses pre-built themes/templates. Craft CMS enables Craft designers and developers to build Craft websites from scratch, offering superior creative freedom and custom development for bespoke sites.
Both for eCommerce websites. Shopify: quick, template solution for startup online stores. Craft CMS: better for larger/enterprise businesses needing complex, scalable, custom functionality for their online store. Craft is more flexible.
Both powerful for online stores. Craft Commerce (for Craft CMS) allows fully custom eCommerce stores/sites. Magento often uses pre-defined templates. Craft CMS is preferred for tailored ecommerce solutions.
Benefits of Craft CMS web development for your business
Partnering with PWD’s skilled Craft CMS developers in Perth for your new site brings key advantages. Share your vision, and our Craft team will develop a high-performance Craft CMS website tailored to your needs. Choosing Craft CMS for your web project means opting for a powerful, flexible CMS.
Launch Your Website Faster
Built on the robust Yii2 PHP framework, Craft CMS enables our Craft CMS developers to build Craft websites efficiently. Its secure code base and MVC structure facilitate scalable, flexible Craft development. An experienced PWD Craft CMS developer ensures a high-performing Craft website with seamless system integration. This streamlined development reduces lead times, getting your products or services to market faster with your new Craft site.
Benefit from High-Quality, Reliable Coding
Craft CMS offers Craft developers a powerful foundation with many built-in features. Our PWD team integrates critical elements like RESTful API support and multi-tier caching directly into the Craft CMS core CMS. As a leading Perth Craft CMS agency, PWD delivers flexible, scalable, and reliable Craft websites. Post-launch, your content editors and marketing team can easily update and manage content, keeping your Craft CMS site fresh. Our Craft development process includes rigorous testing (even in dev mode) and version control for your project’s code.
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Is Craft CMS right for your business?
Whether you’re a freelancer or a large enterprise, Craft CMS provides a flexible, easy-to-maintain CMS solution. Its suitability depends on your specific needs and scale, but Craft CMS excels at managing content for diverse sites.
Craft CMS has a free plan perfect for freelancers and small businesses to start building without high license fees. A PWD-setup Craft website offers an intuitive control panel for simple management. For medium businesses, the Craft CMS Pro plan enhances functionality with Craft plugin support and app integration, enabling confident scaling with Craft. Many users consider Craft CMS the best solution for their sites.
For enterprise businesses, Craft CMS is an excellent, scalable choice. Pricing is tailored, so you only pay for needed Craft features. Craft CMS developers can build custom solutions for complex business demands and large sites, with the ability to manage multiple sites from one Craft CMS install.
Craft CMS simplifies website management with core content types (or entry types):
- Singles: For unique Craft pages (e.g., homepages, contact).
- Channels: For regular content like blogs or news (using categories).
- Structures: For repeatable layouts and structures (e.g., team directories) via Craft’s content modeling tools.
Combined with custom fields and content blocks, these Craft CMS elements ensure efficient content creation, editing, and layout control for any business size, including defining related entries.
Headless Craft CMS development in Perth
Headless Craft CMS development decouples Craft’s content management from front-end delivery. This allows independent development of your Craft CMS back-end and presentation layers (like front end templates). Marketers and content editors can then manage Craft content across multiple platforms (Craft websites, apps) without display constraints, as the headless Craft CMS system handles translation for various interfaces.
This decoupled Craft CMS setup reduces dependencies for safer, streamlined updates. Your team can confidently manage content without altering the Craft site’s core code (post-setup by a Craft CMS developer). Headless Craft CMS is cost-effective, speeding up new Craft tool and feature implementation. Expert Craft CMS developers use APIs for streamlined data access, ideal for flexible enterprise Craft projects. Pixel & Tonic (the Tonic team) is also developing Craft Cloud, a SaaS CMS allowing Craft websites to run on a managed headless back-end hosted by Craft, potentially eliminating self-hosting for some Craft CMS projects.
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Frequently asked questions
Is Craft CMS open-source?
Craft CMS Pro needs a license, so it is not fully open-source. Its codebase is accessible to Craft CMS developers for customisation/extension. Run Craft CMS locally on your own computer for development. The Craft community offers open-source plugins.
Who uses Craft CMS?
Though not as mainstream as some CMS options, Craft CMS is trusted by global leaders like Moz, Netflix, IKEA for their websites and Craft sites. Many users choose Craft.
Is Craft an easy CMS to maintain?
Yes, Craft CMS has an intuitive, user-friendly control panel. After custom-build by Craft developers, content editors find managing content in Craft CMS easy, no deep tech skills needed.
What is Craft Commerce?
It’s Craft CMS’s powerful eCommerce plugin. Craft CMS developers use it to build custom online stores/eCommerce websites with robust tools and features (like image transforms). It integrates into the Craft CMS core CMS for streamlined management of products & transactions. You can connect Craft Commerce to payment gateways.