The ClearWater template is a stunning and light design featuring stylish mouseover effects and will be a great addition to any video sharing website using Clipshare 4.1 Professional.

The Clearwatter template utilizes all seven advertising positions which are configurable via the new advanced Clipshare 4.1 siteadmin advertise section, the template is a wide set design suitable for 1024+ resolutions this allows for better display of video’s and information.

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The web design material.

Joomla

For those of you who dont know,Joomla! is an award-winning Content Management System (CMS) that will help you build websites and other powerful online applications. Best of all, Joomla! is an open source solution that is freely available to everybody.

Joomla! in Action

Joomla! is used all over the world to power everything from simple, personal homepages to complex corporate web applications. Here are just some of the ways people use our software:

• Corporate websites or portals
• Online commerce
• 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
• the possibilities are limitless…

Joomla! can be used to easily manage every aspect of your website, from adding content and images to updating a product catalog or taking online reservations.

SOBI2

SOBI 2 – Sigsiu Online Business Index 2 is a directory component for the WCMS Mambo and Joomla! to show entries of companies, clubs, persons, shops, products, aso.
The entries are divided into categories, which can contain subcategories. One entry can be entered in several categories. The companies/clubs/persons enter themselves in the index. Registered users can modify or delete their entries. Entries can be renewed by the user if they expire.Using the integrated Category & Entry Manager in the back-end, all categories and entries can be managed comfortably. Entries and categories can be deleted, unpublished and moved.

A Fields Manager can be used to configure each field entirely. This concerns the ordering, obligatory fields, fees, field length (width of field and number of characters), field type (textfield, textarea, checkbox, checkbox group, select list, text code or calendar), search methods, in which view a field should be shown (Category View and/or Details View), and much more. An unlimited number of new custom fields can be added.

These 2 combinations can be a lethal. The ultimate website directory.

www.sastay.co.za , another joomal and sobi combination

Please feel free to add this list. More to follow….

Joomla which is an open source content management system (CMS) for creating and managing websites through a simple web interface. It has attracted many users due to its ease of use. Joomla also includes more advanced features such as page caching to improve performance on busy sites, advanced templating techniques, and a fairly robust API. Joomla can provide RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, news flashes, blogs, forums, polls, calendars, website searching, language internationalization, and other possibilities.

Static websites are out and CMS websites are in. Content management system is the new tool to make running a website easy and “doable” for non technical minded people.
Its basically like running your website from a simple control panel.
You can add new pages, modify pages, categorize pages, change the layout, add new functionalities, manage users, send out newsletters, run a blog, and so much more with the functionality that a Content Management website gives you.

With no limits on how many pages your allowed, or any extra per page fees that are associated with static websites.

Affordable?
If you speak to any financial adviser they will tell you to take your expenditure on a product over a couple of years and not just the initial amount. Taking this into consideration when you are deciding on a new website, do you think that a 4 page website will fit your business in 5 years time?
Yes maybe the 4 page website deal will be cheaper now, but how much will you spend on updates? adding new pages? new functionalities? over this period of time.
We all know that website designs age and a new designs must be implemented every +- 2 years to keep an up-to-date business image. There is no redesigning of a static website, there is only a “scrap the old one and redo everything from scratch”.

An Open Source Content Management System that we here at Backbone implement is cost effective, as a redesign is simply creating a new skin for the website, at a fraction of the cost that a new static website will cost you.

So taking everything into consideration a website CMS far out ways a static website regarding cost, functionality, flexibility and adaptability.