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Joomla web site - what do you get? |
 Joomla! is a rich and powerful content
management system .
With a plethora of components, modules , and “plug-ins ”
available, both for enhancement of core features and also to address
specific needs such as vertical markets , Joomla! implementations vary
considerably.
What then do you get when you have a
Joomla! web site built for you?
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Steve can help your organisation, he has a good understanding of business in general, and exposure to lots of business sectors. Here's just a few...
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Retail / Fashion
Schools & Colleges
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Community Organisations & Special Interest Communities
Product Marketting
plus...
- consulting
- community membership sites
- government agencies
- real-estate agents
- councils
- church / religious organisations
- universities
Being on top of all these means Steve has a command of diverse
business models and the underlying technologies needed to make a
successful site for these markets.
Furthermore, Barnes-Open is agile and responsive,
unlike larger players who may be slow to respond, handing work around
many people to complete a simple project.
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Call Steve now on 0423 311 839 for a no obligation chat about
your needs and how we may be able to help you achieve your web site
vision!
Please remember Steve's Business Briefs are now available.
These explore some common problem spaces, with the aim of empowering
you to make informed and productive decisions. Just register at this site to access them. If you have a query
before a specific brief has been release, please call Steve on 0423 311
839.
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Joomla! is an award-winning Content Management System (CMS) that will
help you build websites and other powerful online applications. Best of
all, Joomla! is an open source solution that is freely available to
everybody.
Joomla! in Action
Joomla! is used all over the world to power everything from simple,
personal homepages to complex corporate web applications. Here are just
some of the ways people use our software:
- Corporate websites or portals
- Online commerce
- Small business websites
- Non-profit and organizational websites
- Government applications
- Corporate intranets and extranets
- School and church websites
- Personal or family homepages
- Community-based portals
- Magazines and newspapers
- the possibilities are limitless…
Joomla! can be used to easily manage every aspect of your website,
from adding content and images to updating a product catalog or taking
online reservations.
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The Barnes-Open Domain Registry is available for registration and renew domains. Please take advantage of this facility, as it can streamline management of your website on your chosen domain.
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Steve uses two primary sources for commercial stock photography. These are Dreamstime & StockExpert...
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Smart Business Diagnostic |
The Department of State Development has a 10 minute online quiz to help you evaluate where you're at and what to do about your online business activities:
Doing Business Online Diagnostic
After completing the quiz, you will receive a report outlining where you are now as well as a range of suggestions to help your business move forward.
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 The 2007 Sensis eBusiness report is good reading, and is now available
for download. This report will help you to understand how Australian businesses are prospering by strategically using web technologies, and help give you vision as to where you want your business to go. Please have a read of the Sensis E-Business Report 2007, and give Steve Barnes a call oin 0423 311 839 to see how Barnes-Open can help you capitalise on the online environment.
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We hear about e-commerce quite a bit these days, but what is it? It's basically the ability to conduct a financial transaction over the Internet. It doesn't necessarily meana shopping cart! Let's go to Wikipedia for more detail..
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Are you confused by web terminology? Here's a short list tto help you come to terms with some basics.
Web Strategy
Planning the what , why, who and basics of how you want your web site. This should link to business strategy! To have an effective site, you must know your target market, how you intend to reach them and how in particular web technologies will help you achieve that.
Web Requirements
This is a business oriented statement of what you want the site to achieve for you. It covers the major functions and processes. Good requirements increasingly delve into "customer touch points" where a customer service process may start, finsing its way into your CRM (for example Sugar CRM) or other systems. For more complex assignments, Steve will also engage in "ontology" (a hierarchical definition of your business termoinology and functions), information modelling (UML or ER) and business process modelling to ensure you get the result you are after.
Aim for nothing, hit nothing. Have a clear vision of a specific target, and you'll achieve it given focus and diligence!
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So you got a logo when you started business, and it's on your business cards too. And now you want a web site!
 What does your logo say about you? About your business? About your interaction with your customers?
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Barnes-Open offers a web requirements service, whereby we interview the
stakeholders in your company, formulate a matrix of requirements,
synergies, dependencies etc; and present recommendations back to the
key contact in your organisation. The ability to do this well comes
from years of activity in the area of business modelling and business
analysis.
If you are not certain of your requirements, this
type of engagement is well worth your while. The service is outcome
based - i.e. we provide a report to you at the end, run through the
recommendations in a workshop, and then help you plan your way forward.
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"Shoping Cart" is fairly common language these days, and it's a very good paradigm given our frequent use of supermarkets. The shopping cart assembles the products you wish to purchase and helps you get to the checkout.
Steve uses VirtueMart as Barnes-Open's standard shopping cart. It is feature-rich, stable and well reputed. Significantly, it's been built especially for Joomla!, and at the time of writing, has the Editor's Pick on the Joomla! Extensions web site at Joomla.org .
Let's go to
Wikipedia for more detail...
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The Barnes-Open Platform is a collection of technologies we have tried and proven for ourselves and our clients. In the content of public web sites, it is centred around the Joomla! Content Management System (CMS ).
Steve has implemented many Joomla! sites now, and knows what to do to set up Joomla! to make it perform for your organisation.
- how to handle install and upgrades (perhaps two releases per year, including security enhancements)
- which menu systems to use
- how to set up the most effective and powerful editing environment
- which components to use to extend your site's capability
- which modules to use to add features or extend those components
- the best plugins to enrich your content!
A quote from Wikipedia regarding Joomla!
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Content
management solutions ("CMS") are software and database packages allow
you’re your organization to create and update web site, Intranet and
document content more easily.
Basically, a CMS puts the power to easily modify your web site without any special tools or knowledge right in your hands! That's why CMS is so important in todays business and social world.
A "Web Designer" or "Web Developer" gets your site up and running for you, with the right look and feel, menus and content storage areas, and you take it from there!
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We have had several enquiries of late if we do Adobe (Macromedia) Flash
animations. We do!
Interestingly though, the web2 technologies are eating into the Flash territory, making it easier to access content and present it in a "flash" manner. What really counts here is what you are after as a client; if we can get the requirements and concept right, then we can find the most appropriate and cost-effective solution for you.
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We also do Flash Video, which is the new
progressive download video format from Macromedia that uses Sorenson
Squeeze technology.
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It's often a challenge for clients to envisage colours, and how they go
together. It's like painting a house! That's why we prefer to work together on
colour schemes to compliment and fulfil your strategy, match logo and
effectively reach your target market(s).
One site I love is Color Lovers. If you are considering color scheme, go there and have a look!
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Web applications are purely business applications that are available over the internet in a browser.
Business applications are migrating to the web for many reasons:
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the web increases your reach to customers, partners and suppliers
organisations are distributed across many locations, but need one
system
- staff are mobile, and the web provides for centrally available applications without multiple applications or copies of data
- the technologies are more easily managed, and often cheaper in total, than older PC technologies
Web applications include:
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Many businesses have invested in the web the past several years. Many
have got a good return; many have thrown away lots of dollars into a
hole that demands money each time they update, with little benefit.
So why do the web?
and what about business strategy?
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Steve has experience with many kinds of web sites. All his content management sites (self maintained via a login) use Joomla! CMS (content management system).
What can Steve do to help you? Here's a list we typed out in 10 minutes off the "top of our heads".
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