Website DIY

When maintaining one website becomes to easy

The Cathcart High School started their website hosting with ActionOnline in late 2008, and at the beginning of 2009 they had a Joomla website filled with basic information about the school and a few photos. The teacher, Jeannne Scharneck, choose a few students to help her write articles and take pictures at functions during 2009. It was in this first year already that Jeannee started installing more modules and components on the CHS website.

This year the students at CHS are experienced in how to add new articles and pictures themselves on the CHS website, and Jeannee shifted her attention to the building of a whole new website for Sticky Fingers Playschool.
I was asked for a clean and empty Joomla website, which I provided on our production domain www.actiongroup.co.za. After only a few short weeks the new website was ready, and after seeing the website, I decided to sponsor the domain registration and annual hosting for the Playschool’s website at www.stickyfingers.co.za

Joomla Setup and Migration

Joomla is the world's leading CMS (Content Management System) with hundreds of additional components available. It is also our 1st choice with almost any website.

The advantage of having your website developed with Joomla is that you will be able to manage your website yourself after it's been build. Your website can then also easily be upgraded at a later stage with additional features.

If however you already have a website, but it's difficult to update, we can 'migrate' your website from what it is now, into a Joomla website.

Joomla Tourism Solution

If you run a accommodation establishment, this solution will fit you like a glove, complete with booking system, picture gallery and more ...

In addition to the advantage of the basic Joomla website, such as being able to add unlimited content and pictures to your website, the solution comes already configured with some custom application tailor made to the tourism industry in South Africa.

Those features include the following:

SEO your website

What is the use of building a website and nobody knows about the existence of your website, your products or your services? You cannot think of building a website, and then not marketing it … it’s the same as starting a business and not printing business cards or advertising. You will have to be satisfied with the odd person stumbling onto your website. Having Joomla website is a good start, hosting with ActionOnline will give you an advantage … but you will still be required to have SEO in your head when you design/develop your website. OK wait, what’s SEO?

STEP 1 - Planning your website

Before you start a business, you normally first create a Business Plan, that outlines how your business will function, your targets and goals and much more. Starting your website requires very much the same exercise, and we call it your Website Blueprint.

strategy_planning_7195500XSmall This is typically a Word document that covers the following topics: