Services

SEO

Search Engine Optimization is probably the most abused term in web development these days and companies often act like miracle healers. Search engines have clever routines to scan and evaluate a site. We do not claim to cast miracles on search engine rankings, but we do all the best practices to expose your site as good as possible.

• All your important content pages should be reachable with 2 clicks from the homepage.
• Don't use a JavaScript- or Flash dependent menu, and if you really need to, make html links at the bottom of your page.
• Be clever writing your content, use certain words as often as possible (those you want to get found for on search engines).
• Use standard compliant XHTML markup for your site.
• Use a 'Search Engine Friendly' link system:
  www.yoursite.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=60&Itemid=68 isn't as good as
  www.yoursite.com/ourproduct.html.
• Use a site map and also submit it to Google and other major search engines.
• Exchange links with similar websites. That means a huge boost for your ranking and should be your main objective!
• Get listed on topic specific groups like Google Groups and similar.

Multilingual Content

Sites that target a multinational audience and want to offer more than one language run in danger of getting into a mess. To accomplish multilingual content, people tend to use multiple sites. Different content editors are not aware of changes made to a particular page, design changes have to be implemented on each site..sooner or later the sites will drift apart, too much time is spent keeping a congruent presentation. Managed content translation is meant to address these problems.

On Joomla's internationalisation components you have all your languages on a single system, users can switch between the languages available on each page while staying on the current content page.

Administrators and content editors have their language versions well organised since those elements are treated as a single unit in the system. On changes in the master version instantly get registered and translated versions are marked acordingly. Using Unicode as standard character set, even complex languages as Chinese, Japanese can be easily maintained. Also the administrative backend is available in a wide variety of languages and allows administrators to choose their preferred language individually, making your system multilingual and multinational as a whole.

Content Management Systems

Save nerves

Using Content Management Systems makes maintaining and updating websites easy for the tech weary and delivers scalability and out-of-the-box functionality to the advanced user. Articles can be created, edited and deleted in a matter of minutes. Publishing systems make it possible for authors to write articles and for publishers to put them online after revising them. Content can be written and published for a certain amount of time, can be put offline for later or even archived and searched for.

Save time

Most changes can be finished even during a briefing, results are instantly online and with different user privileges, everyone can have the access to the functionality they need without letting untrained personnel mingle with touchy administrative features. Content Management Systems mean more investment costs for deployment, but great savings in administration cost in a mid-term perspective.

Customize, adapt, improve

We mostly work on Open Source Content Management Systems. First of all, they are free and extremely powerful (most of the top CMS are Open Source Software, simply because of their its commited and strong developer community). Secondly, with Open Source we are allowed to make any modification to the standard code, allowing us to provide you with a solution exactly tailored to your unique needs. Also Open Source Software generally makes use of open non-propriatary standards (like OpenLDAP, XML) and makes adapting  simple, even inviting for others - also for commercial and 'Closed Source' extensions!