Website creation for the press

The press business

A press website is not a showcase website

Publishing every day, holding up under audience peaks, protecting years of archives: the press has technical demands no other sector has. This offer is built for them.

The news does not wait

A newspaper publishes every day, sometimes at any hour. The website has to follow the deadline's rhythm, not the other way around.

Audiences come in waves

An article picked up on social media can multiply your visits a hundredfold in an hour. That is precisely when the website has to hold.

Your archives are gold

Years of articles are your documentary heritage and your search rankings. A botched redesign can make them disappear.

A target for hackers

News websites are among the most attacked. Defacement, hacking, downtime: a media outlet cannot afford any of it.

Readers on their phones

News is read on the move. Every page has to load fast and stay readable on a small screen, even on a slow connection.

Advertising funds the publication

Your ad slots and your advertisers keep the newspaper alive. The website has to serve them cleanly, without breaking the reading experience.

Serenity for Press

Your technical publishing team, on subscription

Serenity for Press is the version of Serenity by Simafri designed for media outlets: we create your publication's website, we host it, we secure it and we publish your articles as your publication goes along. An all-inclusive monthly subscription, sized with you.

Your newsroom

It writes, chooses its headlines and keeps full editorial control. To publish, it sends us the article and its photos, as simply as an email.

Simafri

We put articles online, we keep the front page and the sections in shape, and we continuously manage the hosting, the security, the domain name and the website's improvements.

The price depends on your publication: publishing rhythm, archives to migrate, sections. Tell us about your project, we build the subscription with you.

Built for the press

What your press website includes

Professional press layout

A front page, sections and article pages designed for reading the news, in your publication's colors.

Publication of your articles

Your newsroom sends text and photos, our team puts them online. You publish without ever touching the technical side.

Structured sections

Politics, business, society, sport, culture: your own classification plan, organized and easy to browse.

Lasting archives

Every article keeps its address and remains available, year after year. Your documentary heritage is preserved.

Sized for audience peaks

Website served by a global content delivery network (CDN) with very fast pages: built for the days when everyone clicks.

Hardened security

Secure hosting, SSL certificate (https), protection against hacking and defacement, permanent backup.

Perfect on the phone

Your readers read on the move: every page is fast and readable on every screen.

Your advertising spaces

Your advertising team's slots are built into the layout and preserved through every change to the website.

Google & Discover SEO

NewsArticle markup, structured data and a news sitemap: your articles are built to be found.

Readable by AI

Official information and structured data: your media outlet is present and accurate in the format AI systems read.

Social media sharing

Every article displays cleanly when shared: right headline, right image, right description.

Your publication's domain & emails

Your domain name managed for you, and email addresses in your name (newsroom@your-publication.com).

You already have a website

We take over your website and your archives

Many publications already have a website, often aging, slow or fragile. We study your existing setup and we organize the migration to your new website, with no downtime and without losing what you have built.

Your articles migrated into the new website
Your addresses (URLs) kept or properly redirected
Your Google rankings preserved during the switchover
Migration organized with no interruption in publication

Simple

How it works, in 3 steps

1. You tell us about your publication

Publishing rhythm, sections, existing website, archives: one conversation is enough to scope your project and your subscription.

2. We create, you approve

We build your publication's layout, we migrate your existing content and you approve before going live.

3. Your newsroom sends, we publish

Day after day, you send us your articles and we put them online. The website runs, we take care of it.

Website creation for the press: a managed news website

Dailies, weeklies, magazines, radio and television stations publishing their news online, web-only media: the press now lives on the Internet as much as on paper. Yet running a press website is a technical trade of its own: publishing fast, holding the load, protecting the archives, serving the advertising. Serenity for Press, the press offer of Serenity by Simafri, takes all of that on: a website creation, maintenance and management offer designed for newspapers, magazines and online media, where your newsroom writes and we take care of everything else.

A newspaper's website should be a working tool, not a building site

In many newsrooms, publishing an article is an obstacle course: an aging website, plugins that break, an unreachable provider, a technician gone with the credentials. Meanwhile, the news waits. Our role is exactly the opposite: to be your newsroom's technical ally, continuously. The website is created, hosted, secured, maintained and improved continuously by the same team, the one that publishes your articles every day.

Publish fast, without depending on a technician

The heart of the offer is the publication of your articles by our team. Your newsroom sends us the text and the photos, as it would send an email, and the article goes online: headline, lede, images, section, formatting. The practical arrangements, deadlines, publishing rhythm, volume, are defined together at the start, so that publishing follows your newsroom's pace.

A website that holds the front page

A press website is judged on big news days. That is why every website is served by a global content delivery network (CDN) with very fast pages and an architecture built to absorb traffic peaks: an article picked up on social media should not bring your website down, it should grow your audience. Security follows the same logic: SSL certificate, protection against hacking and defacement, permanent backup.

Being found: Google, Discover and artificial intelligence

Every article is built following news SEO best practices: NewsArticle markup, structured data, news sitemap, fast pages. Your publication is thus equipped for Google and Google Discover. We add the official information and the structured data that help artificial intelligence represent your media outlet accurately: a reliable presence, increasingly important as AI systems answer your readers' questions.

Who is this offer for?

For dailies and weeklies, for general-interest or specialized magazines, for the regional press, for online media, and for radio or television stations that want to publish their news on the web. Your business is not the press? Discover Serenity by Simafri, our website creation offer for businesses, at €5.99/month all inclusive. You represent a public institution? Discover Serenity for Governments, our offer for government websites.

Simafri, experienced technicians you can count on

Simafri has been creating and managing websites since 2002 and serves customers in 42 countries. Your pages are hosted in ISO 27001 certified datacenters and continuously looked after by the same team that built them.

Frequently asked questions about a newspaper or magazine website

How much does a newspaper or magazine website cost?

Every publication is different: publishing rhythm, article volume, archives to migrate, sections. Tell us about your newspaper and we will propose an all-inclusive monthly subscription, sized for your publication.

Who publishes the articles?

Your newsroom writes and keeps full editorial control. To publish, it sends us the article and its photos, and our team puts it online. The practical arrangements (deadlines, rhythm) are defined together at the start.

Do you write the articles?

No. The editorial content remains entirely your newsroom's. We take care of everything else: publishing, hosting, security, maintenance and website improvements.

My newspaper already has a website. Can you take it over?

Yes. We study your existing website and your archives, then we organize the migration to the new website: articles migrated, addresses kept or properly redirected, with no interruption in publication.

Will the website hold up under a traffic peak?

The website is served by a global content delivery network (CDN) with very fast pages: an architecture sized for big news days, when an article is picked up everywhere within hours.

What about our advertising spaces?

They are built into the layout and preserved. Your advertising team keeps its slots and campaigns: the website serves your advertising model instead of getting in its way.

Does the website belong to the newspaper?

Yes. The website and the domain name are in your publication's name. What we build for you stays yours.

How quickly is a submitted article online?

Quickly, according to arrangements defined together at the start: publishing rhythm, deadlines and volume. The goal is for publishing to follow your newsroom's pace, not the other way around.