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The CMS decision outlives the redesign that prompted it. We select the platform with evidence, WordPress, HubSpot, Drupal, Webflow, or Squarespace, model the content properly, and build a system your editors run daily without filing a developer ticket.
Every CMS vendor claims to fit everyone. We run five in practice, WordPress, HubSpot, Drupal, Webflow, and Squarespace, so the recommendation comes from your content operation: how many editors, what approval chain, which integrations, and how much structure your content actually carries.
The shortlist gets tested against real scenarios from your team's week: launching a campaign page, updating a product spec, publishing in two languages. A platform that fails your Tuesday fails, whatever the demo showed.
The difference between a CMS and a pile of pages is the content model: types, fields, taxonomies, and relationships defined so content gets entered once and reused everywhere. Modeled structure is also what makes a site machine-readable, feeding the schema and template logic our search practice depends on.
Editorial workflow gets designed with the model: roles, permissions, drafts, approvals, and scheduled publishing that match how your team actually signs off work. Governance comes built in, so quality survives the third editor and the tenth month.
Templates get built from the model with the same engineering standards as every NMG build: server-rendered content, semantic markup, restrained schema, and Core Web Vitals budgets held per template.
Then we train your editors and hand over documentation written in their language. The measure of the build is simple: months later, your team ships pages, campaigns, and updates without a developer in the loop, and the design system holds.
CMS-to-CMS moves run on a content inventory and a mapping spec: every type, field, and URL accounted for, redirects in one hop, and rankings counted before and after. The content model usually improves in transit, because migration is the one moment everything is on the table.
Editors, workflows, integrations, and the content types you actually publish.
Candidates tested against your real scenarios; a recommendation with reasoning.
Types, fields, taxonomies, and relationships defined before any template.
Templates from the model, plus roles, approvals, and scheduled publishing.
Content mapped and moved, redirects in one hop, rankings counted.
Editor training and documentation, so publishing never waits on a developer.
CMS projects go wrong when templates get built before anyone models the content, so the sequence is fixed: audit the content operation, choose the platform against real scenarios, model the content, then build. The exit test never changes: editors publishing on their own, on a system that stays fast.
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Google Search ConsoleWordPress for content flexibility, ownership, and ecosystem. HubSpot CMS when the site should live inside your CRM and automation. Drupal for complex, permission-heavy structures. Webflow for design-led marketing sites. Squarespace for small teams that value simplicity over extensibility. We run all five, so the recommendation follows your content operation, never our comfort zone.
A content model defines your content as structured types, fields, taxonomies, and relationships, instead of freeform pages. It means content gets entered once and reused everywhere, editors work in guided forms rather than blank canvases, and templates and schema render from structure. It's the difference between a system and a pile of pages.
Yes. The migration spec accounts for every content type, field, and URL, with one-hop redirects and rankings tracked before and after. Search preservation engineering comes standard with every NMG rebuild.
That's the definition of done. Editors get guided content types, a workflow that matches their sign-off process, training, and documentation in their language. If publishing still needs a developer ticket a month after launch, the build isn't finished.
Yes. Forms, personalization data, and lead flow connect to your CRM, HubSpot natively when the site runs on HubSpot CMS, or through APIs elsewhere. Analytics and tag management get wired with the same UTM discipline the rest of our work carries.
Budgets, not hopes: Core Web Vitals targets per template, server-rendered content, restrained plugins and scripts, and image discipline. Performance gets verified before launch and watched monthly after, because a CMS slows down one shortcut at a time.
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