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First of all, what the heck is WordPress or Joomla?

These Open Sourced Content Managed Systems or CMS’s rapidly taking hold as the foundation  of the general website design for more and more companies, organizations, and churches.

What good are they? In a nutshell, they allow the organization to manage their website without hiring or having to be a full fledged designer.

Q. Do you still need a designer with a CMS?

A. It depends.

Q. When do you select one over the other or for that matter the other CMS systems out there?

A. Simply put, WordPress is designed as a Blog to be a website. You need to tweak the WordPress template to become almost anything you want it to be, but it can be costly.

There are thousands of developers and free and paid templates you can choose from that install with ease, and your off and running.

****Be careful, you can get stuck with an old, outdated, security riddled, templates that are no longer supported, so you may need a pro to find one for you and then it is not 100%. Even with a pro, you will be ultimately responsible for the upkeep of your WordPress template and design.

The majority of WordPress users work with the “out of the box templates”and will not modify or customize the site.

Then, there are the designers-developers, that find a template and fully customize it to do what they want it to do. WordPress also has tools called plug-ins that allow you to “Stretch” the WordPress capabilities.  get it ? It seems simple but can be complicated.

What is Joomla?

Joomla is a CMS that is designed to use templates as a webpage and through Plug-in’s and Modules. Pretty much, one picks Joomla to have the ability to expand the site with many different elements in it.

How do you tell the difference?

There are tell-tail ways to see if the site you are looking at is a WordPress or Joomla. This is a rule of thumb and large corporations find ways of masking these login’s for obvious reasons.

You can type in either – “/wp-admin” or “/administrator” after the main domain name and a WordPress or Joomla logo will appear with a login spot. If you get an error, then it is probably not either one.

I.E.

http://domainname.com/wp-admin (for WordPress)

http://domainname.com/administrator (for Joomla)

YourHost.com designs traditional websites or in Joomla or WordPress.

Try it….

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YourHost.com in-house team designed, programmed, and launched the new Fountain Valley Living Magazine Website today. Owners, Curt and Lynn Seeden, along with the web design and coordination by Rick Billings, FVLM Advertising Executive. The site is a completely customized Joomla-Based CMS system that allows FVLM to self-manage their site and save tons of money.

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A big Thank You to each of you for helping us so much to get the new site readied and launched by yesterday, a day ahead of what we really needed.

The site looks great. There are a few things we still need to tweak, but for the most part it is just what we needed and wanted.

You guys delivered what you said, and we thank you.

Rick Billings
Advertising Executive
Fountain Valley Living Magazine
Direct: (714) 227-8195
www.fountainvalleymagazine.com

Web Design california life styles, chocolate festival, curt seeden, fountain valley living magazine, hosting and design by yourhost, Joomla, lyn seeden, rick billings, yourhost, yourhost.com

Well,

Why I can’t be found on search engines? Read on…
I just got off the phone with a very forward thinking church and they have a website and realize how important Live streaming is to church growth. In our conversation we spoke of their website which I typically run a quick structure and content review while we are on the phone.

When we got off, I decided to search for their church, and realized that I only had an address and I did not get their domain name. The address was exactly 13305 Woodforest Blvd. , Huston Texas, 77015. Typically, I can enter the address and find the direct organizational website in no time, but what I found while trying Google, Yahoo, and Bing was zero, nothing, nada. I only found Yellowpages maps for local communities that did not have propagated links to any site.

I could not spend anymore time looking and contacted the administrator for the domain name and found FOTN.org. After reviewing the website and having some SEO and design basics, I found that the entire site is designed and published in Flash, which means that none of the search engines can crawl or find any content that relates to the site, hence a near zero “0″ ranking.

Some Flash sites us a combination of Flash and HTML code that allows the content or text to be crawled by the major search engines and found, and eventually ranked.

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Richard Pearce has made some brilliant Joomla tutorials for you and I.

I strongly recommend that you get the most out of this powerful CMS (Content Managed System) and take this user-friendly course to learn Joomla.

Click Here for more…

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Is Shopsite still the best platform? We can all agree that this answer is  yes. If you have known YourHost.com management and staff for any amount of time, you know that we do not stick our heads in the sand when it comes to shopping carts and what new technology has to offer. ShopSite continues to be a steady and stable ecommerce tool .

Over the past 15 years, others systems have come and gone. Some stick, but have their challenges.

ShopSite is like the Tortoise and the Hare in its offerings and it still stands out.
YouHost.com staff is continuously getting feedback from it’s customers and from our YourHost.com internal design staff as to what we would like to see improved.

We are fully aware that ShopSite could use a short list of items and we are working with ShopSite to improve.

One of the big improvements we have seen in the past updates is templates (request a peak from tech), especially in the new release SP2 that is coming in a few weeks. Learn More…

See SP2 Theme Demos -

One of the new themes on ShopSites new release -

From – http://shopsitedemo10.yourhost.com/index.html

To – http://shopsitedemo25.yourhost.com/index.html

Note, there are 15 demos so if you change the number in this url from 25 down to 10 you will see other templates.

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