Modern Website Features

A modern web site needs to be more than a static brochure of your products or services. Ideally your customers should be able to interact with the web site such as:

• Ordering Goods
• Arranging appointments / events
• Discussions on a Forum
• A Members Registration system
• Customer Surveys
• Industry News

In addition the site should be:

• Easy to update by one or more people
• Work with the Google Search Engine
• Secure
• Extendable
• Be available on mobile technology

Our Solution - Content Management System

We chose to develop all our web sites using a Content Management System (CMS) that is ideal for small to medium sized web sites.

CMS are dynamic web sites, driven by a database and offering a rich set of features that allow your customers to interact with the web site.

Why Choose Hayling Internet?

Choosing a web development company can be difficult, but a key criteria is that the company selling you a product also use the product themselves. We use a CMS extensively on our own web site and internally. It’s our first choice for building all web sites since it provides such a powerful platform.

What's Includes when I buy a website?

We have included a large number of features to make your site even more powerful.

Design

We install and perform basic customisation on a pre-built design template that will make your site look amazing. The customisation normally takes one day and includes:

• Incorporating your Logo
• Setting up the layout of the site.
• Adjusting colour schemes , and typefaces.

Applications

• Ajax File Manager
  A comprehensive ajax-powered file manager that includes editing files and file upload/download. No need to use FTP to manage your site content anymore.
• Backup Tool
  Tools to backup your web site whenever you need for peace of mind.
• Directory
  Build a business Directory like the Yahoo site.
• External News Feeds
  To keep your site fresh and interesting to customers, you can incorporate live news feeds from external sites or your Blog. This has great benefits for repeat site visitors and Google Search will rank your site higher.
• Events List
  Manage a calendar of events including venue information.
• Forms Designer
  Tool to design forms for customer to fill-in and then store these forms in a database and email them to the site manager.
• Google Analytics
  Be prepared to be amazed at how much information can be obtained about visitors to your web site by Google Analytics.
• Google Calendar
  If you already manage a Google Calendar or know of a calendar that would be useful for your site, then the calendar can be incorporated into your site.
• Google Maps
  Display fantastic Google maps on your web site pages.
• Google Sitemap
  Provide a site map to Google for improved organic search indexing.
• Forum
  A forum will offer a great support tool for your products & services or a meeting place for a community site.
  We can integrate the very well known PHPBB forum.
• Photo Gallery
  Essential for clubs and social sites with Albums to display Photos with a nice lightbox effects.
• Social Networking
  We include the Community Builder extensions that provides extensions to the membership system including photos and instant messaging profiles.
• Shopping Cart
  Your web site includes a modern shopping cart system that works with payment gateways such as Paypal. If your not ready to sell over the internet the shopping cart can be a products catalogue.
• Slideshow
  Slideshow for the home page of the site to advertise products and services.

What If I need More?

Our developers and designers can provide any level of customisation required to modify Joomla! to your requirements including.

• Custom Design Work
• Bespoke Application Development
  - Surveys
  - Extranet Applications
  - CRM Integration
• Extension Installation and Configuration
  - Social Networking Sites
  - Photo Uploading
  - Video Management

The work is done professionally to ensure that your site can be upgraded in the future as new versions of Joomla! are released.

Our Portfolio

Here is a quick portfolio of some of our recent sites we have developed for customers:

	Invest In Art www.investinart.net Large web site selling artwork from the De Montfort Gallery.
	Directors UK www.directors.uk.com Large web site for the UK royalty collection organisation with over 3,000 members.
	Hampshire Microlight Flying Club www.hmfclub.com The UK club with the largest number of active members, based locally near Petersfield. Weather data is collected from the airfield and displayed on the web site.
	Hayling Island Surf Club www.hisurf.co.uk A club site for windsurfing on Hayling Island. The owner of Hayling Internet is a keen windsurfer and this site presents the fantastic conditions, events and people that make Hayling Island such a great place to live.
	LP Building Services Ltd www.lpbuild.co.uk A local professional building company required a site to show their portfolio of work.
	PowerPlus Services Ltd www.powerplus-services.co.uk A dynamic fast loading web site for a company dedicated to professional electrical installations for Domestic, Commercial and Residential customers.
	Skidz & Lidz Motorbike Accessories www.skidzandlidz.co.uk A local company with a wide range of motorbike accessories and fancy dress clothing.