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Joomla Websites - An Easy Management CMS (Content Management System) Solution For Your Business

Joomla websites provide a great starting point for any business and as your business grows your website can be added to with all kinds of exciting cutting edge features.

Content management systems allow non-techy website owners to have some control over the website content which can keep their website development costs to a minimum (ideal for a fledgling business where budget constraints might be an issue).

For the more advanced features of content management system websites such as Joomla and Drupal you'll probably need your webmaster to take over but at least you won't be paying webmasters / website developers rates for a few text changes to articles here and there or the odd image upload.

On the web everything is constantly changing.  In your business everything is constantly changing.   Your competitors business' are constantly changing.

Joomla websites and other content management systems allow you to keep up with the competition in your industry sector as additional features are always appearing which can literally act as extensions of your business to create a more fulfilling customer experience when visiting your website.

Joomla Website Features

Another handy feature about Joomla websites and other content management websites is their search engine friendly urls.

It's well documented amongst SEO professionals that one of the fundamental factors considered when search engines index a website is the url (uniform resource locator).  An example of a url would be http://www.trustywebdesign.co.uk.   Hopefully you can tell from this domain name that we're a web design business) and hopefully we'll be indexed as a web design company by the search engine robots.

If you've purchased a domain name which doesn't easily describe what your business does - you could have something of a problem here.   XYZ.co.uk domain name doesn't well describe any kind of business and therefore your competitors who might have the domain XYZwebdesign.co.uk would win when it comes to their domain name.

With Joomla and CMS websites like drupal, etc we can easily add sections which bring your keywords right into the domain name and have a section of your website dedicated to that.   All of the pages in that section would mention targetted keyword and hopefully the search engine spiders will begin to pick up on your business 'theme'.

Using sections, categories and individual articles within your joomla website (drupal uses different terminology but they're essentially the same), we can begin to build an effective website theme which can get your business online off to a real flying start.

Once we have a good structure in place we can then start to add all sorts of modules to bring exciting content to your website and push it out into the marketplace.

Joomla Websites - Not Just For Small Businesses

Don't think for one minute that Joomla websites are just for 'small fish websites'.   Some of the largest organisations in the world use CMS (content management systems) as a framework for their website.   For example, some of the major organisations using as a framework for either their main website or micro sites are as follows:

Mitsubish, Olympus, Avis, Burger King, Nikon, to name but a few.

Main Features Of A Joomla Website

A few of main features of a joomla website are the following (there are lots of other features not listed here but these should give you a quick taster) :

User Management

- Allows us to set you up to edit parts of your site when wishing to add content, images etc.  We can set up users with different levels of security allowing you to give access to your team members at the level you desire.

Content Management

Allows us to put together a great SEO structure based around your business and your keywords (and your users of course).

We can switch content on and off, archive old articles, structure sections and categories around themes, etc.

A great content management system means that we can create unique pages of interest for your users.

Search

A straight out of the box search facility enabling your users to find exactly what they want on your website quickly and easily.

Syndication and Newsfeed Managment System

Keep your content fresh, existing and right up to the minute by implementing an RSS feed.

Want To Know More About Having A CMS Website Built?

If you'd like to investigate further whether a Joomla CMS website is right for your business contact us at Trusty Web Design for an initial free consultation.