Joomla! Design and Development
What is Joomla?
Joomla is one of the world’ s most popular open source CMS (content management system).
With 2.7 percent of the Web running on Joomla, the software is used by individuals, small & medium-sized businesses, and large organizations worldwide to easily create & build a variety of websites & web-enabled applications.
Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular Web site software available. Best of all, Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone.
Joomla is used all over the world to power Web sites of all shapes and sizes.
For example:
- Corporate Web sites or portals
- Corporate intranets and extranets
- Online magazines, newspapers, and publications
- E-commerce and online reservations
- Government applications
- Small business Web sites
- Non-profit and organizational Web sites
- Community-based portals
- School and church Web sites
- Personal or family homepage
Manage your own website with Joomla!
WYK web solutions Calgary offers Joomla! content management system designed for anyone from your company. Anybody can manage a Joomla! website with NO web experience.
Joomla! allows anybody with 0 web experience to update, add, and publish any type of content to their website in real – time based on user name and password. Different levels of permisions can be created for editing or adding new pages, inserting images & multimedia content, adding links, make documents available for download and much much more…
Why JOOMLA! ?
- Joomla! give you flexibility in adding, editing and maintaining content in no time
- Using Joomla! your web maintenance costs will be 0 (no extra maintenance costs)
- Joomla! reduce time to publish any type of content to world wide web
- Joomla! have user friendly interface for non-technical individuals
- Joomla! enable collaboration across all offices or levels of authorization (INTRANET)
- Joomla! cut your costs for using an entire IT department for web and online marketing
JOOMLA! Features
- Add or change your web content in no time with 0 web experience
- Modules, Components and Plugins that will enhance your website
- 100% optimized for search engines (you can add meta content and keywords for each page)
- 100 % Web Databased, no additional hardware or software required. Based on PHP and MySQL databases
- Unlimited administration levels
JOOMLA! Modules, Components, Plugins
Discover how to optimize your business with our Joomla! modules, componets and plugins.
Some of the most popular Joomla! components are:
Newsletter
A simple newsletter module with subscriber management, newsletter campaign management, newsletter campaign statistics and HTML/image embedding capabilities. Easily stay in touch with your clients in Calgary and beyond by sending them weekly, monthly, or quarterly eNewsletters.
VirtueMart E-commerce
A full ecommerce solution based on VirtueMart. VirtueMart has a full product management, integrated shopping cart, multi-currency capability, multi-language support, shipping management, and customer order management. Take your Calgary business to the next level with online sales using Joomla! 1.5 and VirtueMart.
Document Management Systems
With DocMan you can manage documents across multiple categories and subcategories and give users permission to upload, download or edit documents.
Events Calendar
Manage multiple events. Multiple views for calendar including monthly, weekly, daily and category.
Polls
A very basic module that allows you to poll or create online surveys for your clients. You can manage multiple surveys and view each survey results.
Custom Modules, Components and Plugins for Joomla!
WYK web solutions Calgary can custom any module, component or plugins for your Joomla! website.
More details at JoomlaCalgary.ca
WordPress Design and Development
What is WordPress?
WordPress is a leading open source Content Management System (CMS) accounting for 14.5% of the world’s top 1 million websites. Lightweight and powerful, WordPress has many prebuilt plugins, and an active community of developers world wide who support its continued growth.
Originally designed as a blogging framework the WordPress community quickly expanded its technical capabilities and it is now promoted internationally as a full web solution. This includes community, e-commerce, portfolio, and blog-based websites.
Additionally, WordPress boasts several SEO benefits including quick loading times, advanced SEO plugins and social sharing features.
Template WordPress Websites
Even for small businesses having a website is becoming increasingly important. Your customers are online, they are searching for your products and services and you cannot afford to be missing the boat. Template websites are a great introductory option for businesses with a small budget as they are predesigned and programmed. Since much of the ground work has already been laid, templates are typically 50% – 75% less than a custom designed website and can be completed (start-to-finish) in as little as one week.
Don’t let the word “template” get you down. Many of our clients have turned inexpensive template websites into money making machines. Now that I think of it here are a few that are doing extremely well.
WordPress Blog Design
On the web content is king. Bloggers are becoming the world’s journalists, thought leaders and torch carriers. Take for example SEOMoz, Southwest Airlines and 37 Signals whose blogs have amassed thousands of RSS subscribers, hundreds of millions of views, and an immeasurable amount of brand awareness and mind share within their respective markets.
No problemo. WordPress blogs can find a home on almost any platform.
Custom WordPress Websites
Building a custom website is a bit like building a house. The process always starts with the blueprint (sitemap) to establish what rooms will go where? Once you have an approved blueprint you send it to an architect to design the exterior features that will make the home unique (website design). After the design is approved it is then turned over to the construction crew to build the framework that will support the structure (website development). After the house is built and the plumbing is installed the builder tests the outlets and water lines (development testing).
- Information Architecture
- Website Design
- Website Development
- Development Testing
- Launch
- Post Launch Testing
Additional Benefits To Working With Inbound Interactive
In the last 5 years our team has built hundreds of WordPress websites and blogs for businesses across North America. In addition to our development skills we also provide industry leading training and documentation; we employ SEO best practices for every website we build; and we install the essential analytics tools.
Courtesy of Inbound Interactive
Staying Fresh after the Freshness update
- At November 23, 2011
- By Vincent T.
- In Inbound Marketing
Online marketing is an ever evolving beast! Every time I sit down to write a blog post I’m compeled to lead it with “Times, they be a changing”, and as you may have already guessed this post will be no different.
Times They Be A Changin’
Google has just implemented an algorithm update called the “Freshness Update”. The Freshness Update now displays “fresher” search results or more specifically results that have been published within days, hours, or even minutes of you searching them. The search results most effected by the Freshness update are celebrities, tv shows, sports related keywords (ie. football, baseball) and any other niche that caters to information that is frequently updated and published. Although this update did not have the far reaching and in some cases devastating effects of Panda it illustrates the monumental shift that is taking place in the online marketing sphere; specifically in how information is shared and evaluated by the search engines.
The long and short of it… content is king. The idea of content marketing isn’t a new one, however, the idea seems to be gaining traction with the most recent algorithm updates. If you have been sitting on the fence about whether you should be blogging or not I believe the writing is now on the wall.
Recommendations For Staying Fresh
- Create a blog and update it frequently
- Incorporate an RSS reader so that fans can stay connected to your blog
- Build out your social networks (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Youtube)
- Communicate and share information via your social networks
These recommendations may be pretty straight forward, however, they will set you on the correct path for capitalizing on the changing online environment.
