budget-friendly content management for Banks
good for small to mid-size institutions

1. WordPress for Novices and Experts Alike

WordPress is one of the easier content management systems for people without programming experience to learn. Creating new pages, changing text, uploading videos, and adding photos to pages can be simple and intuitive when your WordPress website is designed for easy management. Out of the box, WordPress is a blogging tool, but in our hands, we transform it into a respectable website content management tool for banks that allow it to share some of the same features as the enterprise-class systems that we employ for large banks and corporations. 

2. Mobile Friendly Bank WordPress Sites

Most banks today are seeing anywhere between 25% to 60% of visits to their websites on mobile devices. Mobile traffic continues to climb. Your website needs to be mobile friendly and you need a CMS that makes it easy to manage your responsive website without requiring any extra effort to keep your site optimized for phones, tablets, desktops, and everything in between. WordPress supports responsive design programming techniques that allow mobile visitors to have the same excellent experience that visitors on regular desktop computers experience.

3. WordPress Security Suitable for Banks

Bank and credit union websites are the most attractive targets on the internet for hackers. While enterprise-class platforms provide the best security for bank websites, over the past 22 years we have assembled a proven method for dramatically increasing the security of WordPress websites to allow banks to achieve a reasonable level of security to satisfy FDIC, NCUA, FFIEC, and other regulatory guidelines, including:

• Multi-factor authentication for administrators
• IP-restricted CMS access to limit who can even reach the login page
• Automatic version control and change auditing
• SQL Injection, Cross-site Scripting, Brute Force Protection, and other common attack defensive layers
• Granular backup and rapid restoration
• Malware detection and intrusion prevention

4. Custom Design with WordPress

Our website design team is comprised of first class web designers and front end programmers with mastery of user experience design, CSS, HTML, and UI design. Rather than solely relying on pre-fabricated templates, we leverage our expertise to create information architecture and website designs tailored to optimize the highest and best goals for each bank and credit union.

We have a proven design process that generally follows these steps:

1. Identify the business outcomes by which management will judge the success of its website investment.
2. Evaluate features and functionality that are necessary to ensure the outcomes can be achieved.
3. Design and optimize an information architecture, workflow, and UI design that best supports the features and functionality that will produce the desired outcomes.
4. Develop processes to measure KPIs and incorporate these into the design and development of the WordPress website.

5. Expert WordPress Support for Banks

A website now represents Main Street for most banks and credit unions. More people visit a bank's website on a daily basis than walk into all of its branches combined. Ensuring that an expert team of system administrators, web designers, programmers, security experts, and technical support engineers is essential to ensuring optimal performance and availability of bank websites. 

• Telephone, email, & even remote desktop support by people you know.
• Design, programming, marketing, and hosting support all from the same team.
• We not only respond to every support request, but whenever possible we show you how we resolved your request so that you can learn from our experts.

6. Compliance Features for WordPress Sites

We know what compliance examiners expect from a best-in-class content management system. A few of the features that will satisfy your risk officers and compliance examiners include:

• Change auditing of all content in the website
• DDoS, malware, and other critical protection layers
• MemberProtect strong encryption for user data collected through forms on the website
• Multi-factor authentication to mitigate the risk of compromised user credentials
• Website Record Retention Service to store historical snapshots of every web page for two years