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Do you want to entrust a professional or a web agency with the creation or redesign of your site ? Here are some tips to help you ask for a quote in a businesslike manner.
Indeed, the more detailed your request for a quote, the more it will allow you to get really comparable offers between different web agencies, which will make your choice easier.
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Starting a business is not an easy task. Communication can be wrongly regarded as a simple (or pleasant) task to perform in relation to the difficulty of the financial requirements or the technical development of a product. Unfortunately, a technically superior product can remain in the starting blocks for lack of sufficient attention to how it will be perceived by the market.
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Before the invention of the internet – in the Middle Ages, isn't it ? – there were not thirty-six solutions to find addresses of business companies: one consulted the "yellow pages" of the telephone directory. For the record, the first commercial phone book was created in 1886 by Reuben H. Donnelley in the United States under the term "Yellow Pages." According to the legend, the worker in charge of printing the directory would have run out of white paper and replaced it with yellow ones (source).
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The fear of the blank page also exists for a project manager in charge of creating a new website. To develop ideas, present them to management, to clients, and communicate with the various stakeholders (copywriter, graphic designer, programmer, marketing manager, etc.), a diagram is often more effective than a long speech.
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Creating a website with an open source CMS (Content Management System) like Wordpress or Joomla allows you to avoid being trapped in a subscription-based web service, which represents the lowest common denominator of all users needs without the possibility of evolution.
It is also an opportunity to be able to optimize the design, security and performances of his site, which is an advantage in a competitive market where small details can make a difference. Here are some basic rules to get started.
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Gantry 5 is an open-source, cross-platform framework originally developed by Rocket Theme, an experienced Joomla! developer since the early days of this CMS (Content Management System), and used by various template/theme developers such as Inspire Theme and others. Tiger12 has officially taken over development of the framework with renewed ambitions and plans to integrate assistance tools with AI.
It can be installed on CMS like Joomla, Wordpress or Grav (a CMS using a text file database) in order to ease the development of templates (or themes in Wordpress/Grav terminology). It is highly rated in both the Joomla extensions directory and the Wordpress plugins directory.
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Note‑taking is an essential skill for acquiring new knowledge. Today, computers and tablets have replaced paper and pencil. Recording notes from meetings, classes or reading sessions, improving them and structuring them with specialised software is both enjoyable and extremely useful. But you still need to choose the right tool.
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Joomla! is a free, open source content management system (CMS) developed by contributors worldwide, designed to be straightforward for beginners while remaining flexible and powerful enough for more experienced developers.
Of course, this CMS, which has existed since 2005, has its limitations and the inherent complexity one might expect from a community-driven project on a global scale. Yet while acknowledging that no software is perfect, Joomla makes it possible to build a truly multilingual website in a simple, stable, and secure way, offering a powerful permission system built on proven technologies that are regularly updated — all without installing a multitude of extensions, at a reasonable cost, and while retaining full control over your data.
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According to some scientists or visionary entrepreneurs such as Elon Musk, artificial intelligence may ultimately threaten humanity. Whether intelligent or not, robots have always fascinated and frightened humans. For any self‑respecting webmaster, interacting with ro(bots) is a very real and daily activity. According to data provided by Cloudflare, they would represent 60% of the queries on HTML content. In internet jargon, bots are software programs that perform tedious tasks automatically or semi‑automatically. Some, like the famous Googlebot, index web pages in search engine databases.
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Who hasn't heard the hype from promoters of technical solutions who claim their system allows you to "update your site with a single click"? Certainly, CMS (content management systems) like Joomla or Wordpress are relatively simple to use and well documented, when installed correctly. But, in reality, the work of a professional webmaster requires technical, editorial, and marketing skills that go beyond simply copying and pasting text between a word processor and a CMS.
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Google is a very powerful tool and, in the vast majority of cases, there is no need to look far — we quickly obtain the results we are looking for. But sometimes a more thorough search is necessary.
