A Powerful Content Management System (CMS) for Websites
We are champions of the Joomla! CMS, a robust system that can power a blog, business website, intranet, community website—from the simplest to the most complex website.
Although we have designed in Wordpress and others, we prefer the flexibility, organizational tools, user management tools, ease of use, how we can control design/layout, and the overall power of Joomla!.
The template framework we employ is built on UIkit, a lightweight modular framework for creating fast and powerful web interfaces for a better user experience.
The CMS is the foundation of the website. Although there are components or widgets that do tasks like handling media or allow for shopping, the CMS is what powers the site. It is the brain and brawn.
There has been an ongoing debate which open source CMS is the best. The most popular is Wordpress followed by Joomla!, (which powers about 6% of the world's websites), then Drupal (there are a number of lesser known ones, too). We have worked with all the big three. Because Wordpress is #1 in usage does not mean it is the best although time and time again, a WP user/developer claims such. Each of the big three have great attributes. Consider the difference between these automobiles: BMW, Mercedes, and Porche. Great names, quality products, different attributes.
Joomla! and Why We Love It
Out Of The Box
- A flexible system - extend and customize with over 8,000 verified third-party extensions from slick galleries to eCommerce.
- Easy updating of the CMS software as new updates for inproved functionality and security become available.
- Security conscious development with an excellent track record.
- Metadata and Keywords .
- Mod_rewrite support for SEF URLs .
- Menu building designed to create clear and consistent sitemaps.
- Each menu item and article can have its own meta description, keywords and robots settings, allowing custom SEO settings for content to give optimal availability and searchability.
- Easily redirect URLs when needed such as when a page has been moved or removed.
- Template override: Achieve superior custom designs.
- Jlayouts: Render HTML from objects/arrays of data.
- Template assignment : Assign specific templates to specific pages.
- Create as many menus and menu items as needed.
- Cache management: Speed up your website with caching.
- Bootstrap for perfect responsive designs.
- Custom fields: 15 different field types to add to articles, users, and contacts.
- Organize articles in categories for easy search and functionality.
- Categories: Create categories for articles with nesting and no limits on depth.
- Media: create folders to organize files easier to find, reduce the clutter.
- Choose when articles are published.
- WYSIWYG editor: Edit content without any knowledge of code.
- Content versioning: Never again lose a previous important version of your article and other changes on your site.
- Article management: Add, manage and organize your articles.
- Categories: Create categories for articles with nesting and no limits on depth.
- Frontend editing: Edit content while browsing your site.
- Drag & Drop images from desktop.
- Media manager: maintain and organize images and other files in separate folders.
- Tags: When categorization is not enough to structure your content.
- Access Control List (ACL) manages the users of the site, and different groups giving access to specific areas and tools.
- Manage contacts, departments and contact forms.
- Messaging between administrators.
- Allow visitors to register and gain access to additional resources.
Multilingual made easy with over 70 translation packs available for the core.
- Joomla is not only a CMS, but also a stable and lightweight PHP framework which allows writing web and command line applications in PHP.
- The Joomla Framework is easy to adapt and extend. The CMS and framework are independent from each other, no need to install the CMS to use the framework!
- Syndication: Create a RSS feed from website content.
- News feed: Show an external news feed on the website.
- Search: Visitors will be able to quickly and easily find the appropriate information.
We've been designing websites since the early days of the Internet. Sites layouts are customized to brand and company. We use open source content management systems (CMS), and integrate widgets/components/functions specific to our client's needs without costly custom app development.
We also have partners that design custom apps when needed.
Web Page Builder
Website Management Easier
Our sites come with a nifty and very powerful builder. Once configured, it is easy to update content and allows for great control over layout and content from columns to colors and keeping style standardized. There are 38 elements that can be added such as galleries, slideshows, countdown, maps, video, lists, and more.
Take a quick look at the video below.