Archive for category Joomla Extensions
About this Blog!
Posted by Admin in Advice for Small Businesses, Great Sites, Joomla Extensions, Reviews of your businesses on September 23, 2009
We are very happy to use this blog to tell you about exciting changes in our company, new features we are adding etc. There are also 3 other significant ways in which we are going to be using this blog, which we share with you here:
Business Profiles
1)Business Profiles – we aim to be highlighting and discussing the businesses started by our members. Do you have a small business, enterprise, project etc that you would like us to discuss/publicise? Please submit the details to us on our main site. Share your business dreams, inspirations and unique aspects with our website visitors. If you know anyone who might appreciate the opportunity to highlight their business, then please let them know.
Small Business Advice
2)Small business advice – we love reading blogs aimed at small businesses or startups, and we would love to share with you what we have read. If you know of any blog post which you think we should cover, then please let us know.
Joomla Extensions
3)Joomla extensions – there are so many exciting Joomla Extensions that are available, and we are excited to be able to share them with you. We will be developing our demo site very soon, where we will be showing you a few of these extensions on an ongoing basis, and there will be blog posts and reviews to accompany these. If you would like to suggest a feature or an existing Joomla extension, then please let us know, and we will try to create a blog feature for that too.
Joomla Extensions Directory
Posted by Admin in Joomla Extensions on September 23, 2009
This is our first blog post specifically about Joomla extensions, so we are going to feature on the Joomla Extensions Directory! This is available here. If you opt for a Joomla website (recommended unless you have a blog, in which case we would recommend WordPress), then we strongly advise you to take a look at the different extensions available. Please be warned however, that most users of the directory are website developers, and they use terms which are only really understood by other website developers.
However, you will still be able to get an idea of the many, many, extra extensions available which you can add to your site!
Joomla/WordPress…
Posted by Admin in Great Sites, Joomla Extensions on September 23, 2009
Here at Great Sites, we absolutely LOVE Joomla and WordPress! These are the systems that our websites are built on. Our main site is built on Joomla, and this blog is built on WordPress. If you select a Great Sites Website, we can build one for you on one of these platforms.
What we love about them is that they are easy to use systems which any user can easily operate themselves. WordPress, like this blog, is the leader in blogs, whereas Joomla is recognised as the best content management system in the world.
Easy to use
What we love about them:
We love that they are easy to use - you don’t need generally need knowledge of code to be able to use their easy features
Easily Growable
Easily growable – we love to offer you websites that you can easily grow from simple beginnings to intricate, sophisticated systems. Joomla and WordPress are both very growable in 2 ways
1)That you can easily add pages yourself,
2)There are thousands of available optional extensions to add functionality to your site – for Joomla, and for WordPress
Grow it yourself – or let us do it!
You can grow your website through our company, Great Sites, or you can do this yourself – or both! If you are perhaps new to website design we are happy to set up your website for you, or “get the ball rolling”. As you grow in confidence, you are free to add any features you wish to your website, within your bandwidth quota, or even to totally take control of your website yourself. We will remain available for support, in case there is any one particular feature that proves tricky. So do it yourself, or let us help out – you are totally free to choose.
Demo Site
What is more, we plan to establish a demo site reviewing the different extensions that are available, so you can review each extension before choosing to add it to your site. Are you getting excited yet?!
Distributed Freely
Both Joomla and WordPress are “Open Source” in nature, and distributed free. This is why we can offer these websites to you for free! Also, because they are free, they have more users, and this attracts more software coders to work on them, and to identify bugs – so they are both extremely robust and reliable systems.
They also help contribute to an “Open Source” philosophy which is why many of the 3rd party extensions available for them are also distributed as “Open Source”. You are welcome to download and install these extensions for yourself from source. However, if we install these extensions for you, we will charge a small fee. Half of this fee will cover our labour costs, and half will be donated to the developers of the extensions to help support and acknowledge their work.
What do you think about this? Have you used either of these systems before? Is there anything you could suggest or extra perspective you could offer? Please let us know by leaving a comment below