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National Graphics Nationwide Website Design | Web designers
With an already saturated website design marketplace it’s difficult to know where to turn when looking for a new website for your business. There are huge variations in price, quality and reliability and we understand that the task of selecting the type that’s right for you can be a daunting one. So with this in mind, why choose National Graphics?
A brief overview
 At National Graphics we specialise in designing flexible and affordable websites using what's known as a CMS (or Content Management System). If you are unfamiliar with this phrase, a CMS is a system that allows you, the user, to update the content of your website yourself without the need for any specialist design skills or technical knowledge. Once National Graphics have built your website, you then have the option to either let us do any of the required design work and updates on your behalf or you can choose to easily do it yourself without incurring any additional costs. All the websites that National Graphics build, including this one, are constructed with the award winning Open Source CMS named ‘Joomla’.
Why Content Management?
As technology advances, CMS based websites are becoming more commonplace and this trend is set to continue. There is now an increasing demand from the business sector for greater flexibility in relation to website design and management. Many small and large companies are no longer happy to pay a web design company every time their site requires an update. Instead, a considerable number are now choosing to migrate to more dynamic systems that put them back in control of their online presence. The award winning Joomla CMS that National Graphics provide now gives you the opportunity to do just that. It gives you complete freedom to add new pages, new information and new images yourself from any computer with an internet connection. Take a look at our featured site to get an idea of what you could produce with this versatile CMS.
Which one?
 There is now an increasingly wide variety of Content Management Systems to choose from. If you decide to opt for a website design company that supplies you with their own in house system, you can expect to pay for the privilege of using it either monthly or yearly. If you decide you no longer want to deal with that particular company for whatever reason, you will not be permitted to carry on using their CMS. You will then have the additional expense of paying someone else to redesign your website.
With the award winning Open Source CMS that National Graphics provide, you are free to continue using it for as long as you wish with no ongoing monthly or annual charge for the system whatsoever, even if you choose not to use us for the hosting of your new website.
How it works
You simply switch on your computer, visit your live website on the internet, login to a pre-installed administration area that is 'hidden' behind your website and make any changes you want. You are in complete control - you can even add or delete entire pages if you wish. You could start with a website consisting of only five pages and build it up to fifty five without ever having to pick up the phone to contact us..
With the versatile CMS that National Graphics provide you can also set up and assign different users to update your website for you if you don't have the time or inclination to do it yourself. You simply add as many extra users to the administration area of your website as you like. You can even assign them different administration rights depending on what restrictions you do or don't want them to have.
The process
Once you instruct National Graphics in Swanley to either design your new website or update your existing one, we ask for a small, non refundable deposit before we begin any of the design work. Once this has been received we begin the consultation work with you to find out more about what exactly it is that you want from your new website. This can vary a great deal. Some people already have a clear idea about how they want their website to look, whilst others prefer to leave the design process to us. You can supply us with your company logo and all your own text and images or you can let us take care of everything for you.
We then work closely with you until the website is ready to go live on the internet.
A brief introduction to Joomla...
Joomla is a MySQL database driven Open Source Content Management System written in a programming language called PHP.
Unlike the above sentence, the Joomla CMS philosophy is simple to understand.
It is software designed for the people – by the people. There are literally tens of thousands of websites all over the world that are currently using Joomla to control their online presence. It is currently the most widely used Open Source CMS on the planet with an already huge online community that is getting bigger every day.
.It is used to power:
Corporate websites or portals Online commerce (ecommerce) Small business websites Non-profit and organizational websites Government applications Corporate intranets and extranets School and church websites Personal or family homepages Community-based portals Magazines and newspapers
This amazingly powerful and versatile CMS can be used to easily manage every aspect of your website, from adding content and images to updating a product catalogue or taking online reservations.
Even on its own Joomla is an excellent way of managing the content of your website, but the real power of this robust CMS lies in the application framework that makes it possible for thousands of developers around the world to create powerful add-ons and extensions. There are literally hundreds available and below are just a few: Dynamic form builders Business or organizational directories Document management image, video and multimedia galleries E-commerce and shopping cart engines Forums and chat software Calendars Blogging software Directory services Email newsletters Data collection and reporting tools Banner advertising systems Subscription services and many, many more…
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