What you should be able to change yourself
| Change | Should take |
|---|---|
| Fix a typo or update a price | A minute or two |
| Swap a photo | A few minutes |
| Update hours or holiday closures | A few minutes |
| Add a review or team member | Five to ten minutes |
| Add a new service or city page | Under an hour, using an existing template |
If any of these needs a developer on your current site, the setup is working against you.
What makes editing easy or hard
- Labeled fields for each piece of content
- Reusable sections from a design system
- Preview before publishing
- Changes you can undo
- Free-form page builders
- Content mixed into custom code
- No preview, so edits go live at once
- One wrong click breaks the layout
Field-based editing is the key. When the CMS asks for a headline, a price and three bullet points, nobody has to think about layout. The design system keeps every page consistent.
Prices and facts in one place
The best setups store shared facts once. Your phone number, hours and prices live in one place and update everywhere. On rathly.com, prices sit in the CMS and flow into every page that mentions them, so they never disagree.
Good example. A salon owner adds a new treatment by filling in its name, price, duration and photos. The menu, the price list and the booking page all update.
Bad example. The same owner edits the price on three pages by hand and forgets the fourth, so customers see two prices.
Read whether you need coding skills. Our web design projects include a CMS walkthrough and written guides for your team.