Initial package

All the basics to get you up and running, along with a few extras to make your life easier and your site a little bit better

• First chat by telephone
• Plus 30 mins project management
• Install and configure Joomla! 4 or 3 (depending on what other extensions you need)
• Cassiopeia alternative Joomla! template - which has many more options than the default Cassiopeia template, so it's really easy to configure to your exact needs
• Template customised to match your own logo / branding
• Custom css styles so you can add coloured text or backgrounds that match your branding
• Set up of necessary menus with links to all included Articles/Contacts/Extensions
• Accessibility access keys for 5 main navigational items
• Includes setup of home page, sitemap and up to 3 other articles of your choosing with a basic layout
• Custom, editable 404 page
• Contact page with or without standard Joomla! form
• Set-up of up to 3 standard Joomla! modules
• JCE editor with extended image manger, includes automatic image resizing and thumbs on upload
• JCE layout manager with my standard layouts to help you layout your pages
• Automatically updating site map extension
• Akeeba Backup
• Keyboard shortcuts (coming soon for J4) 

Other common or highly-rated extensions

I do find that there are a few extensions that are so great they are used over and over again on many different websites, not just the ones I've set up. These include

• Acymailing - for newsletters
• Admin tools for Joomla, includes an integrated firewall
• Advanced Module Manager / MetaMod - finer control over your modules
• Articles Anywhere, Components Anywhere, Modules Anywhere - pop any content, anywhere!
• Balbooa - easy drag and drop form builder
• Community Builder - social networking and commucation between your users
• Easy Blog - blogging tools
• Event Booking - online booking extension
• Google structured data
• GTranslate - users can select their language from a dropdown, uses Google translate
• Hikashop - sell online
• jDownloads - allow users to download items
• JEvents - online booking extension
• J2Store - sell online
• Joomdonation - take money from users donations
• Lazy loading of images (coming soon for J4)
• Maxi Menu CK - have greater control over your menus
• RSDirectory - Directory and ads management
• RSForms - more complex form builder

There are so many more to choose from too.

Add-on bespoke css or template builds

Once we have decided on the functionality of your website we may need to update your template to suit. There are hundreds, if not thousands of free and paid for templates out there to choose from, or you may want a bespoke one that we create especially for you.

Quite often I just need to create some new css code to make sure the new extensions fit in with the look and feel of your existing site and doesnt just look like a bolted-on freebie.

Joomla! layout overrides

Joomla!'s excellent templating system allows us to create 'layout overrides' so you can select different layouts for different pages. I can design and then build bespoke layouts for you.