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Requirements for a web site differ depending on who you are and what you want to use the site for. Businesses of all sizes generally use a web site as a virtual shop front to their products and services as well as a marketing tool to generate leads from prospective customers.

When selecting a provider for your web site, it's important to ensure that your site can grow as your business expands. You need to be free to change the content frequently and in as little time as as possible. This is especially true for smaller businesses and new start ups as in the early days of trading, ideas for new products and services can come thick and fast and you need to be in a position to get the details up on your web site quickly.

What is the Joomla! Content Management System (CMS) ?

Joomla! is an open source content management solution that is freely available under the GPL license and runs on most of the more popular web hosting servers.

Being open source, support is readily available. Joolma! also has a excellent development, meaning developers are available around the world to write custom code to add additional functionality to your site. There is also a huge library of already written modules available that can be installed to a running Joomla! system with minimal fuss.

Like most CMS systems, once installed and configured, Joomla! requires almost no technical skill or knowledge to manage the run of the mill content, such as static text, news items and images.

MHCG Joomla! Services and Solutions

A full range of Joomla! related services are available, giving you the total solution to your web site needs, ranging from simple conversion of a web site design into a Joomla! Template, right thought to custom module, component and plugin development to customise the Joomla! system to meet your requirements. All services come with a period of full support.

Nearly everybody needs some kind of shared storage for their documents and other files, even small one user setups often have more than one PC or a desktop and a laptop and therefore have some sharing requirements. There are various ways to achieve small scale sharing, one way such way, if you have a local area network of some kind, is to use a Network Attached Storage (NAS) device. There are several commercial NAS boxes on the market that work very well for this, but can prove costly for smaller companies. If you have a spare old PC lying around, there is a low cost alternative to a commercial solution in the form of the open source project FreeNAS.

There is a wealth of information around the net about FreeNAS, including on the FreeNAS Project Web Site. Installation and setup is fairly straight forward, however as a service available exclusively to Manchester and Salford based customers, I will install and configure FreeNAS onsite for you.

While I certainly don't claim to have the same level of expertise as a full fledged SEO company, I can certainly help you with common tips and tricks to ensure your site is being found by the major search engines (e.g. Google, Yahoo!, Bing, etc.).

Employing the services of a SEO company can be extremely costly, but can also be extremely cost effective depending on your industry. If you're website is generating virtually no leads at all for you, then I can analyse your site and advise you on the general techniques you need to deploy to your site to get it recognised by the major search companies.