Running a Content Management System (CMS) takes a lot of the hassle out of creating and maintaining websites. From creation to customisation, the modular framework of a modern CMS makes it possible to dynamically add new functionality in short timeframes, meaning the presentation of your business on the web and the services you provide can adapt to changes when they occur.

Over the past few years, many business and public sector organisations have moved towards products from the Open Source community to fulfil their CMS needs. Joomla! is a product that has now been mature for more than four years and is now running many high-traffic, high-profile and internationally recognisable websites.

 

Footprint Media provides a complete content management service, from installation and configuration of new sites to customisation and development of existing web sites. We are able to translate your requirements into functionality that will improve your visitor-to-lead conversion and returning visitor rates. To facilitate smooth running of your CMS, we can also provide advanced web hosting that is guaranteed not to cause you compatibility problems. Whatever your content management needs, partnering with Footprint Media is a business decision choice you will not regret.

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Joomla! is different from the normal models for portal software. Joomla! has been developed as a content management system for the average website, but has a feature-list that can transform an average website into a world-class site in a matter of days.

Joomla! is licensed under the GNU/GPL license; it is easy to install and administer and is highly-reliable. Once Footprint Media completes the initial installation and configuration, Joomla! doesn't even require you as the user or system administrator to know HTML to operate and update the site.

Joomla! features:

• Completely database driven site engines
• News, products or services sections fully editable and manageable
• Topics sections can be added to by contributing authors
• Fully customisable layouts including left, center and right menu boxes
• Browser upload of images to your own library for use anywhere in the site
• Dynamic Forum/Poll/Voting booth for on-the-spot results
• Runs on Linux, FreeBSD, MacOSX server, Solaris and AIX

Extensive Administration:

• Change order of objects including news, FAQs, articles etc.
• Random Newsflash generator
• Remote author submission module for News, Articles, FAQs and Links
• Object hierarchy - as many sections, departments, divisions and pages as you want
• Image library - store all your PNGs, PDFs, DOCs, XLSs, GIFs and JPEGs online for easy use
• Automatic Path-Finder. Place a picture and let Joomla! fix the link
• News feed manager. Choose from over 360 news feeds from around the world
• Archive manager. Put your old articles into cold storage rather than throw them out
• Email-a-friend and Print-format for every story and article
• In-line Text editor similar to Word Pad
• User editable look and feel
• Polls/Surveys - Now put a different one on each page
• Custom Page Modules. Download custom page modules to spice up your site
• Template Manager. Download templates and implement them in seconds
• Layout preview. See how it looks before going live
• Banner manager. Make money out of your site

Footprint Media Joomla! Services:

Footprint Media is commited to Joomla! and uses it to power this website. We provide the following Joomla! services:

• Installation and configuration
• Search-engine optimisation
• Component, module and plugin installation, configuration and modification. Coding of custom add-ons
• Template design
• Conversion of existing websites to Joomla!

Hosted Joomla! Development Site:

To complement the above Joomla! services, we also issue clients with an installation of Joomla! on our web space. This Development Site can be accessed by visiting http://clientid.footprintmedia.net with your web browser and entering your authentication details. This enables you to see your custom template in operation before publishing it on your server.

You can install, configure and modify any additional components, modules and mambots (aka plugins). Perform all your development on your Footprint Media test site, then download a backup and install the finished product on your own server - a new site without a minute's downtime!

Please contact us for a quotation on your Joomla! requirements