Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Extended features of an enable IT website

We can custom extend your website to help make your new website work even more for you.

These are features and extensions either developed by ZEALAND iSME and are seperate to the Core Joomla! system, or they are third party extension we are familiar in working with and are confident in their ability to help make your site rock.

We offer training in the use and management for all extensions we add to your website, just ask and you will receive.

Some of these extensions are free, and some are paid. We will advise you of any payments required when we work with you to develop the best website solution that works for you. Often we have large multiple site discounts and arrangements with the developers of these extensions to get the best deal for you.

Site Speed

We can increase the speed of your website. Each website will have different aspects that will need to be streamlined, but a few common tasks are:

  • combining CSS files for speedy download (what makes your site look pretty)
  • combining and compressing JavaScript files (what allows your site to do some cool things)
  • reducing the amount of external files your page needs to load

E-Mail Marketing

We can install and train you on using a very powerful email messaging component for Joomla! called Acajoom. Acajoom is a full email marketing platform allowing for multiple contact lists, sign-up forms, automatic time-delayed emails, newsletter templates, statistics, and more. For full details of Acajoom please visit http://www.ijoobi.com

Acajoom is our email marketing program of choice. If you are looking for a non-Joomla! solution then we recommend and use iContact Email Marketing.

E-Commerce

We are able to fully integrate simple to complex e-commerce facilities into your website. We do this using some well established partner technologies that have been tested and proven over time.

Virtuemart

Complete shopping cart and product management system. www.virtuemart.com

  • Products
  • Categories
  • Nested Categories
  • Shipping Calculations for multiple zones
  • Coupons
  • User Management Extensions
  • Recommended Products
  • Credit Card payments
  • much more

Example site: www.zealandfoods.com

Direct Payment Solutions

We can integrate your website with New Zealand's favourte payment solutions provider. Accept credit cards and receive money in real time to your bank accounts. Your DPS payment gateway can be integrated with preferred E-Commerce platform Virtuemart to provide your customers with a seamless, secure, shopping experience.

PayPal

Integration of PayPal into your website or Virtuemart shopping cart.

  • Virtuemart integration for easy Credit Card payments
  • Add PayPal "Pay Now" links to your website to quickly and simply get payments via PayPal for items where you don't need a full shopping cart system

User Features & Interaction

Community Builder

JomSocial

JomComment

Add user comments to your content articles to improve user interaction and gather feedback.

Social Networking

We can implement Social Networking components to your website that allow for your users to submit, link, and promote your articles to their friends on popular social networking and bookmarking website such as Facebook, Technorati, and Stumble.

Content Management Extended

MyBlog and IDOBlog

You have a website and you've heard about blogging and all the traffic they get to their websites. Well, we can't guarantee you traffic, but we can give you the tools to create a great blog for yourself or your business using these blogging extensions that use and extend the Joomla! core article system to include key blogging functions.

  • Multiple Users / Bloggers
  • Topic Tags & Keywords
  • RSS Feeds
  • Comment System
  • Ratings
  • Blog specific templates to get the real blogging look

SOBI2 - Business Directory

Leading directory extension for Joomla! This extension can be used and modified to create a directory for almost any situation where a directory is required.

Image Galleries

There are a number of extensions which help you present your images in an attractive way. These can be simple pop-up light boxes, full image galleries with nested categories, or flash animated image displays.

Typography

Your website will come with a core set of typographies which you can use to enhance the look of your website; however if these aren't enough we can extend this by adding new and more advanced options which will give your site even more of an edge.

Administration Extensions

There are a number of administration extensions which can make managing your website easier. We install some key extensions when developing your site as we view them as essential to the management of any Joomla! based website.

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