Joomla Website Design from Ottawa

Website Design for SEO

It is very rare nowadays to build a website from scratch. Most professional website design firms use pre-made templates which they then re-work and enhance according to their clients' needs. The end result is presented to clients as custom design. It is possible to take this approach one step further.

We invite our clients to have a say in the process of selecting the base template. Using highly reputable and professional ready-made web templates, we source, present and discuss a number of potential versions with you and then select the most appropriate one, most suited to the needs of your project.

We then customize the look and feel of the site by changing the site's color scheme, navigation structure, styles and fonts, and other visual elements - to simulate or create the desired brand.

We then install and configure into the website pre-made modules and components to enable various required functionalities (e.g. a registration form, e-commerce, polls, comments, etc).

Our clients watch the site's development through 3 stages and at each stage they are invited to provide feedback and make recommendations.

Once the site is configured, you can then manage it and add content to it via your browser, simply by logging in. The process of creating content is almost identical to the way we write emails in Yahoo, Gmail or other web-based email systems.

Joomla web design using off-the-shelf components

An open-source free website design and website content management system, Joomla has the largest support community and the largest repository of extensions (i.e. various functionalities) - all available for download free of charge; it has been in existence for over 10 years and has gone through a number of reviews and clean-ups; and above all - it is also one of the most user-friendly open-source content management systems.

Once your Joomla website has been setup, it takes roughly 30 min to learn how to add and edit content on your website.

Some of our most recent Joomla design clients:

How we create Joomla websites

We will source and recommend a website template that would be most appropriate for your current brand and type of business.

Some of the template sources we use:

http://www.joomlart.com

http://www.yootheme.com

http://www.rockettheme.com

MORE TEMPLATES - NEW!

We will discuss with you what features and functionalities you might need and decide what additional modules and components (i.e. registration form, e-commerce, survey, polls, etc.) to install and configure.
We then provide you an estimate on how long it would take us to assemble and customize your site.
If you already have a website but would like to port your content to a new Joomla-based template, we will be happy to do that as part of the project.
If you rather not use a template and would like to have your own website created from scratch, we'd be happy to do that as well. Whether you are hoping to have fancy product galleries and sliders, funky cartoons or impressive 3D visuals, we would be happy to create them for you together with our partners, at very competitive rates.
Custom coding, 3rd-party integration (e.g. Salesforce.com) is optionally available.
It takes between 2 days and 2 months to build a new website, depending on the scale of the project and your requirements.
Both Joomla 1.0 and Joomla 1.5 are supported.

Basic Joomla website design includes:

Assistance and recommendation on selecting the most appropriate template
Website + Joomla installation & setup
Setup of a user-friendly top navigation (dynamic drop-down menus are included)
Content porting and presentation
Color scheme and font style modifications
Color scheme and font style recommendations (if your business is brand new)
Beautifully rotating images on the front page that are search engine friendly (not Flash!)
Image recommendations and selection (copyright free images)
Site search
Breadcrumbs
Site map
Basic SEO (Search engine friendly URIs; Title tags and META tags) - NEW!
Installation of two additional custom components (e.g. surveys, polls, etc.)
One-hour training on how to use Joomla as a user (for adding/removing pages, uploading images, adding PDFs, etc., not for template customization)
Support by phone for the first 2 weeks after launch
Recommendation for quality hosting at affordable prices (hosting itself is not provided, but we can refer you to our trusted hosting partners).
Additional modules & components can be installed on demand (i.e. Google Analytics tracking, e-commerce, PayPal, advanced image galleries, content rating, etc, etc).

Additional perks:

Call or email us for a free 30-minute Joomla consultation. We will walk you through the process of getting a Joomla website to help you clearly visualize what's involved.

Heck, we will also send you a website design plan for SEO free of charge!

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