Cost Effective Web Sites - Open Source Business Solutions

Based in Reading, KPR i-Services provides business solutions such as online stores , content driven cost effective web sites and other bespoke solutions on a UK wide basis using open source software. If you are considering moving online or already have an online presence that is not performing as you expected then contact us for honest and impartial advice on the business solutions open to you. If you want a web site that you can update and change without getting expensive code modifications then contact the open source experts at KPR i-Services Ltd.

Research is showing that half of consumers would consider NOT using a business that does not have a web site where they can obtain information and order products and services. Consumers will also think long and hard before using a poor quality web site.

After extensive evaluation KPR i-Services has selected the Joomla CMS product as its preferred open source software product in the area of content management and web site creation and updating. This is product that can be used by any business that does not wish to work directly with HTML and wants to rapidly update its web content with having to call on expensive programming effort.  With the addition of a business specific template the web site can be quickly branded to your needs. KPR i-Services can usually install and configure the product on its own hosting space within 1 to 2 business days. The provision of a business specific template takes a little longer.

Selling a product or service demands a slightly different strategy than physical retailing. This is called an e-business strategy and covers everything from the design of the web site through to how your business will collect payments from your customers. This all takes some working out and you must get good advice on what currently is working on the Internet. Many fads have come and gone on the Internet and you can be using yesterday’s marketing techniques before you know it. Some approaches have stood the test of time and these will always attract customers to your web site. The focus is on cost effectiveness and business solutions that work.

If you've read anything at all about Content Management Systems (CMS), you'll probably now believe these three things to be true: CMS are the most exciting way to do business, CMS can be really, I mean really, complicated and lastly Portals are absolutely, outrageously, often unaffordably expensive.

Joomla! is different from the normal models for portal software. For a start, it's not complicated. Joomla! has been developed for easy use. It's licensed under the GNU/GPL license, easy to install and administer and is very reliable. Joomla! doesn't even require the user or administrator of the system to know HTML to operate it once it's up and running.