Web Development
We use and recommend the excellent free Joomla content management system which provides a robust, modular and versatile platform for developing websites.
Joomla Extensions
There are thousands of free and commercial Joomla extensions available and suitable extensions can usually be found for the features to be implemented on your website.
We commonly install extensions such as:
- customised templates
- customised contact and other forms
- surveys and polls
- event calendars
- product catalogues
- e-commerce including shopping carts and online payment systems such as Paypal
- members area
- mailing lists and newsletters
- forums
- galleries and slide shows
- Google Maps
- SEF (search engine friendly urls)
- document management
- blogs
There are a number of extensions that we install on every Joomla website we create:
- Google Analytics (or equivalent)
- Joomla update utility (to make it easy to update Joomla when security patches are released)
- backup utility (to make it easy to back up your website)
- search engine friendly URLs
Custom Code
Where extensions fall short or no extension exists, code is written and incorporated into the Joomla content management system to provide the required feature.
Development Steps
Website projects undertaken by Webilicious typically consist of the following steps:
- organise domain registration and hosting (if required)
- install and configure Joomla
- install and configure template and extensions
- customise template and extensions to client requirements
- integrate non-Joomla software into Joomla website such as Google Maps or other 3rd-party software (if required)
- check and fix any validation errors to ensure your website works as expected
- test in the latest versions of all the main web browsers including iPhone and Android
- submit the site to allthe main search engines (if required)
- perform and retain a backup of the site "as delivered"
- provide documentation including all relevant credentials
Our particular areas of expertise are:
- search engine optimisation
- forms design
- forms to email and/or database
- surveys
- website application development using ChronoForms
Application Development
Joomla can be used as a quick and cost effective application development platform because of built-in features such as:
- templates
- security
- internal Application Programming Interface
The Joomla API facilitates common programming tasks such as accessing the database which speeds up application development. ChronoForms can create forms for data input and search, sort and display database results to create complete online applications.