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Website Design & Content Management Systems
Websites are a necessity. If you do not have one today, you’re hurting your business and could be tapping into unrealized opportunities.
With the web, a car detailing shop is exposed to more dealerships and potential clients. A Brazilian violin bow company can showcase exotic products to the frigid shores of Canada. You will reach more people and people will reach out to you. If you haven’t embraced this yet, start with a brochure site to get things rolling. Or perhaps you’re an internet veteran and have proudly relied on your web presence for many years…hopefully you’ve updated it. If not, we’re here to help—Let's get started...
At PixelBrite.com® we have the expertise to help you establish a proper web presence in a short period of time. Dismiss one-hour solutions and speedy do-it-yourself gimmicks. Get serious about establishing your business on reliable, standards-based, open-source technologies. This is where we hope to find common ground with you. (More Info: What is Open-Source?)
Open-Source initiatives foster a strong foundation through community development, input, and world-wide ownership. These products are freely available, further sparking global interest, involvement, and contribution. Also, because they're "free", the consumer instantly enjoys enormous savings versus similar commercial products that impose large licensing fees before the design ever begins. But, at PixelBrite.com® we embrace these open-source initiatives, building our own business on these technologies, while helping our customers to do the same.
Content Management Systems (CMS)
Although we offer a wide array of standards-based web design services, our sites focus on using the free open-source Joomla! Content Management System. Each of our website packages includes the installation and configuration of Joomla!, along with a site built on this technology—finally, you can get hands-on with content publishing.
What is Joomla, and what is a Content Management System (CMS)? These powerful applications allow novices and individuals without any web development knowledge to edit and publish website content. The following brief more information topics provide insight into Content Management Systems and Joomla.
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Brief introductions to CMS and Joomla.
PACKAGES PixelBrite.com® website design services employ our color brand for three distinct packages: BlueSite™, GreenSite™ and RedSite™. These three tiers target a wide array of personal and business website needs, including brochure sites, publications, corporate, and e-commerce solutions. Every website, business, and design initiative varies in expectations, requirements, passions, and vision. Each package includes the necessary steps to establish a basic website for its tier while incorporating attractive rate reductions for additional package hours that are commonly required to meet client demands and expectations.
How it Works & Getting Started
New sites begin with a set of required tasks that establish a basic framework, drawing from the disciplines of PixelBrite.com® web designers, server technicians, SEO, and administration staff. These tasks are included with your website package and encompass installations and configuration of server based items such as: domain, components and plugins, SQL databases, webspace provisioning, and installation of the Joomla CMS. This phase also includes commercial template selection, installation, and configuration with light customizations. These initial steps establish a functioning website on which to begin integrating your content.
Client-Driven Package Time
Next, client-driven package time is put into action on design, programming, and content tasks. Although each website package has a client-driven block of time, it is important for the customer to prioritize and scrutinize tasks given to PixelBrite.com® designers in order to adhere to any budget constraints or concerns. Included package time allotments target the most basic website in their tier and are often exceeded, however, each package enjoys a special reduced package rate. We gladly provide the client with rough estimates for tasks upon request so that project time expenditures can be gauged in order to meet perceived client site completion schedules and budgets. Our clients have found the reduced professional services package-rate especially helpful and cost-effective for unforeseen design tasks, copywriting, support, and deploying other creative side-projects along the way.
Website Design Packages
How Can I Use My Package Time? Each package is geared towards developing a different level of design and content with the client driving PixelBrite.com® staff towards specific goals, preferences, and priorities. Click a package overview below for a brief synopsis of target-projects for each package. Suggestions and examples of time expenditure are also included:
Enterprise E-Commerce
Integrate E-Commerce into your business with a solution that will become the back-bone of your customer and product management. Our enterprise-level application incorporates directly into our CMS as a native component to keep your administration centralized. It also includes the same premium features found in commercially licensed products that cost 10's of thousands of dollars. As with most of our products, we rely on cost-effective, open-source applications without licensing fees that are custom programmed and tailored by PixelBrite.com designers to fit your business.
Dismiss cart-only solutions that leave client billing data vulnerable and cripples your product line-up with featureless tools. Our enterprise-level solutions are complete business applications that cover user management, product pricing schemes, shipping profiles, and a complete suite of billing solutions.
Here are some features our E-Commerce solutions incorporate:
- Product Presentation with Customized Category and Product Layouts
- Product Reviews, Tags, Associations & Galleries (w/ FTP upload option)
- Unlimited Product Attributes (Size, Color, Toppings, etc.)
- User Profiling (for Product Recommendations)*
- Integrate with: Accounting Software (LessAccounting, etc.)*
- Integrate with: Inventory Management Software*
- Unlimited Products (Physical & Digital)
- Order Notification & Confirmation Emails
- Unlimited, Nested Categories
- Featured Products
- Unlimited User Groups
- Custom Product Fields
- Volume Based Pricing
- User Group Pricing
- Multiple Currencies
- Multiple Payment & Shipping Options
- Publication Dates for Products
- Stock Levels According to Attributes
- Order History
- Address Book
- Stored Payment Methods
- Viewed Products Log
- Graphical Reporting
- Creating Orders OBO Users (Phone, etc.)
- Coupons (Total Purchas, and Per-Product*)
- Gift Certificates*
- Wishlists*
- Product Attribute Templates*
- Product Bundles*
- Product Comparisons*
- 3rd Party Vendors (Users as Sellers)*
- Stored Carts for Reordering*
- Automated User Management Emails*
- Product Availability Notifications*
Your Website Content
New website owners often need help understanding their role and ours in the website design process. Website design is primarily concerned with data presentation, logic and navigation. We present your content in appealing, creative ways while instituting different mechanisms to navigate your data (content). The website owner supplies the actual content (articles, texts, product descriptions, images, biographies, etc.) and we institute a vehicle for delivering and presenting this data.
Think of PixelBrite.com as the home builder, providing the foundation, wall-framing, roof and electrical services, while you supply the couch, furniture, wall-pictures and other content for the home.
Placing an Order
Browse our website packages for a solution. For assistance estimating or further product clarification, please use our Quote Request service. Once you have made a website package selection, placing an order is a simple checkout process like any other product or service. After recieving payment, its time to begin. Please Contact Us for special payment arrangements.
Websites are large projects involving a number of digital assets such as text, logos, photos, or videos. As these elements are assembled and received through the Design & Support Center, we provide guidance for organizing this content into website pages. As we create a road-map to completion, two-way communication is essential in the process with a high degree of reliance on the client to timely provide essential content elements. If a commercial template is included with your package, we provide a wide array of choices and then begin the work of branding site elements to be uniquely yours.
In a relatively short period of time the client is given access to the Joomla Administration Application and invited to get hands-on in the website creation process, where desirable. It's a fun process—seeing your image come to life and your passion materialize into an interactive web application that will serve you for years.
Site Packages
Ready to get started? Please explore our website packages, terms of service, and examine our website agreement. Let us know if you have any questions.
Website Repair and Face-lifts
We provide programming, design, face-lifts, repairs and other ad hoc web-related services via either of our Designer™ or Support packages. Begin with either of these options: BlueDesigner™ or BlueSupport™. Let us know if you have any questions.
Open Source Software | Free
PHP, MySQL, Apache, Linux and Joomla. This alphabet soup can be somewhat intimidating to some, but rest assured these technologies establish a solid foundation for serious websites and applications. Every website produced by PixelBrite.com® incorporates these widely accepted open-source software solutions.
What is Open-Source? A great example of an Open-Source initiative is the Mozilla FireFox Web Browser. This free browser is developed by a large group of volunteer developers from around the globe. Open-Source literally means the Source Code for the project is open, available, and freely accessible. Individuals or companies can take the source code and extend its use for their projects. Millions of supporters world-wide get involved on forums, documentation, programming, and other project roles in large-scale open source initiatves such as Joomla! and FireFox.
Content Management Systems (CMS)
What is a Content Management System? Static HTML pages and sties typically require Web programming knowledge, FTP, and other software programs as well as involve manually updating coded pages. Content Management Systems dynamically create webpages on the fly and store their information in database tables. In the case of Joomla, a familiar Section, Category, and Article hierarchy helps organize site content and information via easy to use web-forms. In addition, CMS's keep track of all images, video, text, data, and other assets in an easy to manage Web Application. This application is typically referred to as an Admin or Back-end program. Through this piece of software, web novices and staff can interact with website content, update and write new articles, and publish website content without any web programming knowledge.
The powerful Joomla Admin empowers website owners with complete control over their website, staff user accounts, author permissions, internal instant messaging, authoring tools and more. It is a very powerful application.
Joomla! Open Source CMS
What is Joomla? Joomla is an award-winning, open-source Content Management System (CMS), built to use and run on other open-source technologies such as MySQL, PHP, and Apache Web Server. This powerful database-driven CMS allows dynamic websites and online applications to be assembled with full management capabilities provided through a back-end administration tool. This enables our clients to get hands-on with publishing content to their website—great for the do-it-yourself. Of course you can always rely on us for content management assistance too. We encourage our clients to find out more at Joomla.org or feel free to Contact Us for more details.
What can Joomla be used for? Non-profit organizations such as churches, Schools, Government as well as Magazines and Newspapers, Small Business Sites, Baby Photo Galleries, and Corporate Websites—including a good deal of PixelBrite.com®
Extensions
Another great advantage of open-source and the Joomla CMS is that this freely available software has garnered acceptance from millions of developers globally—this means extensions. Extensions are mini-software applications that run inside of Joomla and extend its functionality and capabilities such as: plugins, modules and components. A Joomla! website opens the doors to versatility and extensibility for years to come.
BlueSite™ Package
BlueSite™ packages include the minimum number of hours to get a basic website assembled. These initial websites are often referred to as brochure sites because of the similarities to a printed brochure. Typical site makeup consists of a main front page displaying a logo, site identification, and a brief corporate introduction. In addition, a brief synopsis of products or services offered, Contact Us page with fill-out-form, About Us with company background, and a short marketing introduction with images, brand, or text pull-outs.
These very basic websites can focus on an appealing site theme, while investing package time on ensuring all textual content and corporate messages are fully exposed on the site. Alternatively, clients will often forego having our designers integrate all aspects of their content, focusing instead on design, presentational elements, typography, and template enhancements. These initiatives ensure that texts and images later published by the client are attractively displayed through the template mechanics we have designed.
Remember, the complete Joomla! Administration Application is at your disposal to get hands-on with content— or, use PixelBrite.com to assist with content during, post-production and launch. Weigh your involvement and how to best spend package time—whether it’s through content generation or designer css layouts and template modifications, we’re ready to get started. These are just some of the options you can explore when defining your website development direction. Shop Now
GreenSite™ Package
GreenSite™ packages include all the options of the BlueSite™ Brochure Website, while taking the project to the next level. GreenSite™ integrates additional products and services pages, images, texts, general content, forms and application logic. These packages are geared towards clients desiring a time investment on brand, image, and a uniquely designed, personalized web presence. Original artwork, graphic design, customized iconography, menu navigation systems, content presentation, web-applications, and impact are many areas this package has the ability to entertain.
BlueSite™ and GreenSite™ websites focus on an appealing site theme, while clients typically invest client-driven package time on ensuring all textual content and corporate messages are fully exposed on the site. The client-driven time may focus on css design layouts, presentational elements, typography, and template enhancements. These initiatives ensure that texts and images later published by the client are attractively displayed through the Joomla template mechanics we have designed.
For highly content driven websites, use package time to focus on assistance with copywriting, image manipulation, graphic design and artwork, illustrations, article organization, navigation and the efficient delivery of information through solid article authorship. For e-commerce sites, time is often invested in programming the cart system, order processing, product presentation and other time-intensive tasks associated with online shops.
Remember, the complete Joomla! Administration Application is at your disposal to get hands-on with your content. Specialists can be directed to spend time focusing on design, presentational elements, custom CSS styling, typography, and template enhancements. These initiatives ensure that texts and images later published by client staff is attractively presented on the website through the template mechanics we have designed. Consider adding time upgrades to further explore content, application logic or creative initiatives.
We have numerous professional services packages designed to assist with post-production content, and post-launch content generation. After you weigh your involvement and how to best spend package time, we can get started on your plan of attack. Shop Now
RedSite™ Package
RedSite packages unlock the door to creative freedom, inviting impact, spark, and sizzle—load up the painters palette, sharpen the pencils, and flip open the sketch book. This site package is a lot of fun!
With a generous time allotment to get things started, these sites can be driven in several different directions. Design centric, unique layouts, original artwork, specialized presentational elements and menus...you can establish your brand, image, and explore a unique web presence with digital brush, color, and inspiration. Express your heart, ideas, passions, and mission statement through a website that is more art, than tech.
Or, roll out an e-commerce site using the Open-Source Joomla Application: VirtueMart™. This powerful e-commerce solution is managed directly through the familiar Joomla Administration Application. With full control over product inventory and management, presentation, shipping modules, order processing, and everything necessary to get a full-fledged e-commerce solution off the ground with a small investment.
Or perhaps you would prefer a Social Networking website using the Commercial JomSocial Application addon for Joomla. This powerful application integrates seamlessly with Joomla, extending your website with every state-of-the-art Social Networking feature out there. JomSocial also includes a full Administration application which is accessible and integrated into your existing Joomla Admin—the same familiar administration tool you and your staff will come to know.
Establish a solid business presence, informational magazine, or public information initiative. Wherever you drive your design, we're ready. Sometimes clients direct our staff towards design related tasks, rather than content insertion and article assembly. Our specialists focus on artwork, design, presentational elements, typography, CSS styling, and template enhancements that will aid in content generation and presentation. These initiatives ensure that texts and images later published by the Client or our staff, are attractively presented through the template mechanics we have designed. Shop Now
Your Role & Website Content
New website owners often need help understanding their role and ours in the website design process. Website design is primarily concerned with data presentation, logic and navigation. We present your content in appealing, creative ways while instituting different mechanisms to navigate your data (content). The website owner supplies the actual content (articles, texts, product descriptions, images, biographies, etc.) and we institute a vehicle for delivering and presenting this data.
Think of PixelBrite.com as the home builder, providing the foundation, wall-framing, roof and electrical services, while you supply the couch, furniture, beds, silverware, wall-pictures and other content for the home.
Bundles
Portfolio
Portfolio & Gallery
A part of our Portfolio is available: Drop by & check it out!
BlueSite™
Affordable basic brochure style website for personal or small-business. Joomla Content Management System with commercial Joomla template. Package hours with rate reduction for addon design time upgrades. Fully supported and includes 1-year hosting, domain, and email. See our Website Packages or:
GreenSite™
Business Website Solution. Joomla CMS. Good for professional service, content driven, and copywriting assisted site initiatives. Entry-level basic e-commerce. Commercial addons and template selection included. Standards-based, CSS design. Post-launch bonus support pack. Includes 1-year hosting, domain name, and email. Support plans available. See our Website Packages or:
RedSite™
Complete Premium Business Website Solution. Design Centric, Flexible, Versatile. Ideal Ecommerce, or other application driven website. Optional upgrades to JomSocial or Virtuemart include installation and configuration. Solid choice for professional products, services, and content driven websites with ample room for creative initiatives. Incorporate extensions, commercial software, and other addons with time-allotments. Includes Joomla Content Management System with commercial template. Available plans for complete post-launch training, support and maintenance plans. Includes 1-year hosting, domain, and email. Includes PixelBrite® PRO Advantage™. See our Website Packages or:
FlexCSS™ Free
Every Website Design Package includes a version of our FlexCSS™ Software. A special rapid web development tool created and supported exclusively by PixelBrite.com®
$49.95 Value
