PUBLISH
WITH A PLAN.
Work in drafts, preview before publishing and use revision history when you need to step back. Schedule a page to go live—or come down—without a midnight calendar reminder.
FORGE CMS // MADE BY ELECTRIC SQUID
LESS
MANAGING.
MORE
MAKING.
Your website should be easy to run. That shouldn’t be a controversial opinion.
Forge is our homemade, in-house content management system for websites with a point of view—and people with better things to do than wrestle an admin panel.
EXPLORE FORGE
Demo login: demo / demo.Read-only. Have a poke.
YOUR WEBSITE. YOUR WORKFLOW.
A PROPER CMS.
WITHOUT THE CIRCUS.
A great website needs more than a good launch day. It needs to stay useful when the team changes, the next event goes live and somebody spots a typo five minutes before lunch.
We built Forge to make that everyday work feel straightforward. Clear editing. Content with structure. Media you can find again. A system that keeps the design intact while your business keeps moving.
01 / THE FOUNDRY
GIVE CONTENT
A PROPER HOME.
Projects. People. Jobs. News. Whatever your site needs more than one of, Foundry gives it a collection with fields that make sense.
Edit once and let the site put it in the right places. Reorder items, choose cover images, duplicate a starting point, or archive something without losing it to the digital void.
Less copying and pasting. Fewer “which version is this?” moments.
02 / THE MEDIA LIBRARY
EVERY ASSET.
LESS HUNTING.
Images, videos, documents and the file someone definitely uploaded last Tuesday. Give them a searchable home instead of another folder called “final-final.”
Find assets by name and type, add useful titles and alternative text, set image focal points, and build galleries with the right cover and order. See where media is used before deciding what can go.
Your files should work for you. Revolutionary stuff.
03 / THE EVERYDAY WORK
A LITTLE EDIT.
NOT A WHOLE ORDEAL.
Write and format content, manage page settings and check the details from desktop, tablet or phone. Your team edits the content. The templates look after the layout. Nobody needs to rebuild a page to change a sentence.
THE USEFUL BITS / ALREADY THOUGHT ABOUT
MORE CAPABLE.
LESS COMPLICATED.
PUBLISH
MAKE CONTACT
LESS COMPLICATED.
Build forms with the fields you need, add them to pages and manage submissions. Set notifications and confirmation behaviour around the way your team actually responds.
GET FOUND.
LOOK SHARP.
Give pages proper search titles, descriptions and share images. Manage canonicals, indexing and sitemap settings, with a search preview that shows what you’re putting out into the world.
THE RIGHT KEYS.
THE RIGHT PEOPLE.
Give team members access suited to their role. Keep selected public pages behind a shared password when the audience is smaller than the entire internet.
ONE CHANGE.
IN THE RIGHT PLACES.
Reusable templates and shared page parts keep navigation, footers and recurring elements consistent. Your site gets room to grow without becoming a collection of unrelated one-offs.
YOUR STRUCTURE.
YOUR RULES.
Organise pages into a sensible hierarchy, control navigation and build collections around your content. The CMS follows the shape of the site, rather than making the site follow the CMS.
AND WHEN THERE’S SOMETHING TO SELL
BRING A SHOP.
OR A CROWD.
Forge Commerce adds product catalogues, variants, inventory and order management. Running an event? It also supports eTickets, attendee records and check-in.
Product detail pages can carry the information people need before they buy: image galleries, options, size guides, delivery details and event policies.
We scope payment, shipping and other integrations around your project. The demo shows the catalogue and ticket experience; it doesn’t take real payments.
DESIGNED, BUILT AND HANDED OVER PROPERLY
WE BUILD
THE SITE.
YOU GET
THE KEYS.
START WITH
YOUR PEOPLE.
We map the content, the jobs and the people doing them. Not every website needs the same machinery.
DESIGN WITH
A POINT OF VIEW.
We build your site and its Forge setup together, so the front end has character and the back end makes sense.
HAND OVER
WITH A PLAN.
We show your team how it works, agree the support you need and leave you with a system you can actually use.
FAIR QUESTIONS
BEFORE YOU
ASK THE SQUID.
Is Forge a website builder?
It’s the CMS behind the website. We design and build the experience, then set up Forge so your team can manage the right content without wrestling the layout. You get a site made for your business, with an editor made for running it.
Can you move our existing site into Forge?
That’s a conversation worth having. We’ll look at your content, design and integrations, work out what’s worth keeping and tell you what a sensible migration involves.
Will our team need to know code?
For everyday content editing, no. We set up the pages, collections and fields around what your team needs to do. More involved design or functional changes stay a development job.
Is the snail-racing demo really Forge?
Very much so. Mollusc Motorsport is a fictional league running on the real CMS. The demo account is read-only, so you can explore the admin without changing the site. The snails have enough to worry about.
CURIOUS? GOOD.
MEET THE CMS.
POKE THE BUTTONS.
A real CMS, a fictional snail league and a read-only account.
