Content management that editors can actually use.
A CMS is only as good as the editorial experience. Contentful and Sanity have different strengths. The wrong choice creates a CMS that developers love and editors avoid. Getting the content model right from the start prevents painful migrations.
Need a CMS developer to set up or migrate to a headless CMS — content modeling, editor configuration, and Next.js integration
Headless CMS selection and configuration requires understanding both the editorial requirements and the technical architecture:
Contentful vs Sanity:
Contentful: strong content modeling, clear field types, strict schema. Better for structured content (product catalog, documentation). Editors have limited customization ability.
Sanity: flexible content modeling with GROQ queries, real-time collaboration, customizable Studio editor. Better for rich editorial content where the editor UX matters. Steeper initial setup.
Content modeling decisions:
Modeling a blog post seems simple but has real decisions: Is the author a reference to an Author type, or a string? Are tags a multi-select enum or references to a Tag type? These decisions affect queries and editorial workflow.
Next.js integration patterns:
- Static generation (
generateStaticParams) for blog posts: pages built at deploy time from CMS content - On-demand revalidation: webhook from CMS triggers ISR cache invalidation
- Draft mode: preview unpublished content in Next.js using Sanity/Contentful preview tokens
Portable Text / Rich Text:
Sanity uses Portable Text (block-based rich text). Rendering it in Next.js requires the @portabletext/react package with custom renderers for each block type.
Headless CMS integrated with Next.js — content models, editor-friendly interface, and build/preview configuration
CMS selection
(Contentful vs Sanity for the use case)
Content models
for the content types needed
Next.js integration
with static generation and ISR
Draft preview
configuration
Editor documentation
for content team
One honest number to start.
Fixed-scope, fixed-price. The number below is the starting point — final scope is built from your brief.
Headless CMS integrated with Next.js — content models, editor-friendly interface, and build/preview configuration
Three steps, every time.
The same repeatable engagement on every project. No surprises, no mystery, no billable ambiguity.
Brief & discovery.
We send you questions, then get on a call. Output: a written scope with every step, feature, and integration listed.
Build & ship.
Fixed schedule, weekly reviews. No scope creep unless you change the scope — and if you do, we reprice it transparently.
Warranty & retainer.
30-day warranty on every launch. Most clients stay on a monthly retainer for ongoing features and maintenance.
Why Fixed-Price Matters Here
CMS integration scope is the content types and the rendering requirements. Fixed-price.
Questions, answered.
Yes — that's the purpose of the CMS. Setup includes editor documentation. Both Contentful and Sanity have intuitive editing interfaces once the content models are configured.
Tell Ryel about your project.
Describe what you’re building and what outcome you need. You’ll have a written, fixed-price scope within the week.