Taking Statamic further: how Laravel turns a CMS into a custom platform

Most business start their website with a simple goal: “we just need a website”: but what does your website need to say and do to help your visitors connect and engage with your business?

At some point, you might find that “just a CMS” or “just a website” doesn’t quite cover what you need anymore. You need something that improves connection with your customers, makes it easier for your team to manage, and provides a richer experience for your business.

But what if your “just a website” CMS is, well, just that - purely for content management, and can’t easily help innovate or evolve your site?

That’s where Statamic, powered by Laravel, really shines - and where the Mity team help businesses take that next step.

When your website can do more

Many content management systems are designed purely for publishing. They let you update pages, add blog posts, or upload images.

But the needs of modern businesses have become more complex - and the expectations from your customers are now higher than ever. The content management system driving your website needs to give you room to grow.

Some CMS platforms have become stale in what they offer, and while still may be popular, have failed to deliver modern platforms that allow developers to do more for your website beyond just content management.

This is why we use Statamic - a modern content management system built on top of Laravel, which gives us the tools to not only deliver a best-in-class and incredibly flexible content authoring experience for you, but more importantly, a foundation to build features that go beyond just content management.

Beyond content: when a CMS becomes a platform

Think about what would make your website more useful for you… and now think about what would make your website more useful for you customers?

Have a think about your website… and ask yourself what would make your website more useful for you. And while you’re at it, what would make your website more useful for your customers?

“What if my website could…”

We love questions like this - because Statamic and Laravel give us the freedom to be creative with the answer to all of your “what if…” questions.

What if… my customers could sign in to my website to access personalised content or manage a subscription to my business?

What if… my website could show more relevant content, products and metrics that are relevant to their needs?

What if… my website could have its content - like product pages, movies and session times, product specifications - be automatically created and managed by my existing business systems?

What if… I want visitors to my website to be able to submit content and images to my site for me to one-click review?

What if… I could have a single admin area to manage all of this functionality and data without needing a separate system?

What if I told you that all of this - and more - is possible with Statamic and Laravel?

With the right approach, your website can become a central part of your business, built to evolve, automate, and enhance the way you connect with your customers. And when you work with Mity Digital, that’s just the start.

The power of Statamic and Laravel together

Statamic is built on Laravel, the world’s most popular PHP framework, and is a powerful combination that gives you the best of both worlds: an innovative and flexible world-class content management system, and the freedom of a fully custom platform.

Laravel opens the door to advanced functionality without losing what makes Statamic simple. It allows us to build features that feel native and integrated in to both your admin workflow, and the experience of your site’s visitors.

The result isn’t a patchwork of plugins or external systems. It is one cohesive platform that works the way your business does.

We’ve helped clients turn their websites into something much more than a collection of pages.

For some, that’s meant creating secure member areas where customers can log in, manage their subscription and even contribute content for the admin to review.

For others, we’ve created an automated integration with their brand’s centralised marketing platform to help keep news and promotions automatically up-to-date.

And we’ve also built a seamless two-way integration to help with pulling new time-sensitive content from one system, but also enabling that system to tell the website when content changes to refresh its caches for a truly hands-off approach.

These solutions save time, reduce technical risk and debt, and give your business more control. Most importantly, they turn the website into a true digital asset - something that grows with the business instead of holding it back.

Why work with Mity

At Mity, we don’t just build websites - we and creative and innovative partners for your business who build web platforms that change and evolve how your business works and how your customers interact with you.

We understand both the creative and technical sides of Statamic and Laravel, and how to leverage their tools to deliver highly performant and scalable web apps. We know how to design seamless user-focused experiences, and how to extend Statamic to enhance its toolset to best work for your needs.

We do this by understanding your goals, your systems, and your pain points - and most importantly, your “what if…” questions and your needs. From there, we create web sites and web apps that feel natural to use and easy to manage.

Your website can be more than a place to publish content - it can become a connected, personalised, and powerful platform built around your business, and hold the answers to all of your “what if…” questions.

With Statamic and Laravel, you don’t have to choose between simplicity and custom flexibility. You can have both.

If you’re ready to see how far your Statamic site can go, we’d love to have a chat. We’ll help you take your website further.