Brand Surge delivers CMS Development Services for Austin businesses in Austin, TX. We combine deep cms development expertise with on-the-ground knowledge of the Austin market — so the leads we drive are local, qualified, and ready to buy. No long-term contracts, transparent reporting, and a free strategy call to start.
Discovery and requirements gathering to understand your content types, workflows, and team capabilities.
Platform selection and architecture design including custom post types, taxonomies, and admin structure.
Development and configuration of the CMS with custom fields, admin panels, and user roles.
Training, documentation, and handoff so your team can manage the CMS independently.
With 150+ people moving to Austin every day, new businesses open every week. If you're not actively investing in SEO, your competitors are filling the gap and once they establish rankings, it costs 3-4x more to overtake them.
Before calling a plumber, booking a restaurant, or hiring a contractor, Austin residents search Google. Ranking in the top 3 local results means capturing 75% of all clicks everything below is essentially invisible.
The map pack those top 3 business listings with reviews and contact info gets more clicks than all organic results combined for local searches. We specialize in getting Austin businesses into that map pack.
Understand your content and team needs
Design the CMS structure and admin experience
Build, configure, and optimize
Train your team and go live
It depends on your needs. WordPress is ideal for content-heavy sites with blogs and service pages. Shopify is best for ecommerce. Headless CMS (Contentful, Strapi) is best for complex multi-channel setups. We recommend based on your specific requirements.
Yes. We handle full content migration, URL mapping, 301 redirects, and SEO preservation. Whether you're moving from one WordPress install to another or switching platforms entirely, we ensure no content or rankings are lost.
Yes. Every CMS project includes comprehensive training sessions for your team, plus video documentation they can reference anytime. Our goal is full team self-sufficiency within 2 weeks.
CMS development projects typically range from $5,000-$25,000+ depending on complexity. A standard WordPress site with custom post types is at the lower end; complex multi-site or headless setups are higher. We provide a detailed quote after discovery.
Yes. We can enhance your existing WordPress, Shopify, or other CMS with custom functionality, new content types, improved admin panels, and performance optimization without rebuilding from scratch.