We Specialise in Joomla!
The World's Most Popular Content Management System
We Provide The Following Joomla Services
- Custom Joomla Template Design & Development
- Joomla Training via Remote Desktop
- Joomla Troubleshooting, Backups, Restores, Patching, Site Migration etc.
- Virtuemart Shopping Cart Integration
- Community Builder Integration
- Docman Integration
- Galleries, Slide shows, Rotators, Accordions, Embedded Videos, etc...
- Joomla Forums (Kunena, (formerly FireBoard), PHPBB with JFusion etc.)
- Events Booking Tools (Jevents, RSEvents)
- Google Maps Integration
- FlexiContent Integration
- Setting up Automated Backup
Why Choose Joomla? Never be "locked in" to a single design firm again!
By choosing the industry's leading open-source platform, you're choosing freedom, and the power to save money by maintaining your own website.
- Efficient, Versatile and Customisable.
- Easier to use than Drupal. More Powerful than Wordpress.
- Start with a simple site on a solid foundation, and add advanced features later without starting over.
- Large variety of add on extensions (4000+) to expand functionality.
- The Most Popular CMS around with the biggest pool of developers to choose from.
- Save money by updating your own site.
- Joomla is Open Source Software, so you're not locked into a proprietary technology, or encrypted software that you can't customise.
- Structural separation of design, content and functionality, allowing you to change your design without building each page again from scratch.
- There is no other CMS around (open source or commercial) that provides the same ease of use with the power to expand in so many ways, without building each piece of functionality from scratch, and with such a large developer community.
Recommended Joomla Extensions
Most extensions below are free, except for a few we feel are better than any free option. For these few we recommend a free alternative in brackets after the paid option.
Must Have Joomla Extensions
- Joomla Content Editor (JCE) Pro. (Free version also available. Both are better than TinyMCE.)
- Easy Search Lite: Find anything instantly in the admin area.
- Ignite Gallery. (Or MorfeoShow for a free option)
- Lazy Backup. Get database backups emailed regularly..
- Jumi. Code Insertion (Javascript, PHP, Embedded Video Scripts...)
- QContacts. Based on the core contacts component, but ads CAPTHCA + 6 Custom fields.
- RS Form Pro. Advanced forms, email you the results, save submissions in a database, and export to a spreadhseet. (Or ChronoForm for a free option)
- eXtplorer. A file browser within Joomla.
- Add to Menu. Lets you add a menu link at the same time you create an article.
- Google Maps Plugin.
Specific Purpose Extensions
- JomComment - Comments and social bookmarking buttons for Joomla (or JComments for a free option.)
- JPosition2 Drag and Drop Modules between positions, view all modules and link them to different pages, from a single page interface. (JPosition is a free alternative)
- Mass Content. Great for adding lots of articles at once (and menu links for them at the same time).
- All Videos - Insert YouTube and other videos on your site more easily.
- Docman - a document download repository for Joomla.
- XMap. Without debating the merits of SiteMaps here, this is a great extension if you need one.
- RS Events for events bookings and calendars. (or JEvents for a free option)
- Kunena Forum (formerly FireBoard) forum for Joomla.
- Virtuemart Shopping Cart
- Community Builder - Social Sites with Membership Profiles, Extra Fields for Users etc.
FlexiContent & CCKs.
The Power of Drupal, in Joomla!
FlexiContent is our pick from the raft of new (and old) Content Construction Kits (CCKs) such as K2, JSeblod, Fabrik, Zoo etc. that allow Joomla to become almost as extensible as Drupal. It was released out of Beta into a stable version in March 2010 and we expect a wide raft of additional extensions will be rapidly built as addons for this extension.
Drupal v. Joomla post 2010.
If you've previously read that Joomla is more user friendly with more extensions, eye candy and templates, but that drupal is more powerful in it's core architecture, then those days may well be numbered. We love Drupal, but for the average user, Joomla will still be the better pick for most purposes, and especially so since this recent burst of CCK development.
FlexiContent offers a universal replacement for many of these types of directory / catalogue extensions (such as SOBI, Mossets Tree, JReviews etc) but goes much further with native support for such things as
- Custom fields,
- Front End Field Filters (coming soon),
- Multiple content types,
- Templated views,
- Files & Images as Fields,
- Native Joomla Content Plugins Still Work
- Nested categories,
- Tags, tag clouds,
- Ratings,
- Comments,
- Multi-mapping of fields (allowing fields to be used by more than one content type to allow table joins)
- Version control (so you can edit a draft without unpublishing the current version).
FlexiContent is free, but has a related product called FlexiAccess (GPL license, but a 20€ subscription is required to download) that tightly integrates with FlexiContent and neatly closes the other big gap in Joomla thus far with a rich hierarchical and extensible user access control system for Joomla with support for multiple groups with granular control of permissions for most aspects of Joomla.
It should be said that Joomla 1.6 which is due out in stable release probably in 2010 will support unlimited nested categories and rich user access control, but it appears that FlexiContent + FlexiAccess still goes significantly further, and will now form the foundation of many Joomla sites with more advanced requirements than just basic serving of pages.
