CMS Development

A headless CMS separates content storage from presentation — the CMS holds the content, and a separate frontend (usually Next.js) renders it, giving you more control over performance and design at the cost of a steeper initial build. WordPress bundles both together with a huge plugin ecosystem, which is faster to get started with but couples your site's stability to plugin quality and update timing. Neither is universally better; the right choice depends on your team's technical comfort and how much you value frontend control versus ecosystem breadth.

Yes, that is the specific goal of the build, and we test it before handover by having a non-technical team member — not a developer — publish a real page during the training session. If they need to file a support ticket to add a new blog post, the content model was scoped wrong, and we would fix that before calling the project done.

It depends on hosting preference and budget. Payload is self-hosted and integrates cleanly with a Next.js frontend, which is why we use it on our own site. Sanity is a hosted service with a strong editing experience and no server to manage, at the cost of a recurring platform fee. Strapi sits between the two — self-hostable, open source, with a smaller plugin ecosystem than either. We recommend based on your team's comfort with managing infrastructure, not a fixed preference.

Yes. Content migration is scoped as part of the build once we know your current platform and content volume — we write migration scripts for structured content and handle manual review for anything that does not map cleanly, such as embedded media or inconsistent formatting from an old system.

Yes, every CMS project ends with a support agreement, not just a handover session. Response times are named in the agreement, and you can choose a retainer that covers monitoring and CMS updates only, or one that includes an allocation for new content types and features as your editorial needs grow.