What CMS is better for SEO, Joomla or Wordpress? Lets clear up a few misconceptions shall we? SEO and CMS are not now, nor were they ever, causally connected.
You don't need to use a CMS to build a perfectly SEO'd website and therefore your choice of CMS has no real baring on your SEO strategy. To use a house as an analogy... whether...
on Monday, 21 April 2014.
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There are no SEO guarantees, only good practice. There is no silver bullet to shoot your site to the top of the google rankings. It's as simple as that. I would advise caution if any company or freelancer guarantees SEO success, unless of course they come with a 6 or 12 month plan.
SEO used to mean putting a few things in place on...
on Wednesday, 26 June 2013.
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Responsive design. It's all well and good. Your site adjusts to the screen size, and your users get a good mobile experience, without having two or even three separate websites. But truly mobilising your site takes more thought.
Why would someone view your site on their mobile? What info do they need? What do...
on Tuesday, 16 April 2013.
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Big news on the Joomla front! It appears the the steering group that runs Joomla has recently updated it's advice on Joomla website building.
Up until recently, it was recommended to launch all new Joomla sites with the LTS (Long Term Support) version 2.5. But with the release in late 2012 of Joomla 3.0 (STL) the Joomla community has...
on Wednesday, 27 March 2013.
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1 Do You Understand What I Want?
You really need to ask yourself this first. Have a look at other websites and see what sort of thing you’re looking for and how you’d like your website to appear. It’ll be easier to articulate your website wishes to a designer if you’ve got examples to show them. They should...
on Tuesday, 19 February 2013.
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Ok so you thought getting a 1&1 site was a good idea...
The advert looks soooo easy... you just fill in your text and images and your site is great... right?
No... not right... not right at all...
Your site is getting very little visitors, and those who do visit are immediately leaving. Your site is amateur, dull...
on Wednesday, 02 January 2013.
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If you're a business owner and you want to get yourself online there are many way WebCraftNIi.com can help you. In this article we take 3 different business examples and show how you can easily and affordably get your business online and making money.
e-Commerce
If you're in retail or a are running a small retail-style...
on Friday, 30 November 2012.
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What exactly is Joomla?
Joomla is a content management system for website and web apps. It allows the website owner to add and control the content of their website, without having to write complicated code to add menu items, links, images videos etc.
Joomla is based on the PHP scripting language, and although it can be...
on Tuesday, 20 November 2012.
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We are delighted to announce that Weber Shandwick, one of the worlds leading public relations companies, has asked WebcraftNI to work with some of their most high profile clients.
Here at WebcraftNI we have worked extremely hard to gain a high level of competency and trustworthiness, enough to attract the very best clients for...
on Tuesday, 04 September 2012.
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We at WebCraftNI.com are proud to announce that we now offer Joomla training. Here at WebCraftNI.com we have spent the past 5 years working with the Joomla CMS and in that time we have learned every nook and cranny of the most powerful CMS available. Our training can be one-on-one at your home or we can arrange to come to your place of...
on Monday, 23 July 2012.
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Here at WebCraftNI, we specialise in business websites.
But websites for business is not all there is to it. We try to find out as much as we can about your business, how it works and how it makes money. Then we see if your website can boost...
on Thursday, 19 July 2012.
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What exactly is a CMS or Content Management System? How do you get one? And once you have one, how do you use it?
A CMS is a bit of web software that allows a user, mostly with no web programming skills, to add and delete web pages from a website using a simple and intuitive interface. Adding a web page with a CMS requires little or...
on Tuesday, 17 July 2012.
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Most websites now have to be mobile friendly. Mobile search traffic has increased five-fold in the past few years and with Apple and Google pumping billions into iOS and Android respectively, then more and more of the web will continue to be mobile. In ten years time, we will wonder why anyone sat at a desk in front of a screen... in fact we...
on Tuesday, 17 July 2012.
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We are Belfast Web Designers. We are based in Belfast. There are a number of great companies in Belfast offering web design services, and we at WebCraftni.com are proud to take our place among them.
We are constantly improving our services so as we are...
on Monday, 16 July 2012.
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As some of you might know we are in the age of the Patent Wars. Apple, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, Samsung etc have drawn their battle lines and aimed their lawsuit warheads squarely at each other.
In the latest in the long story...
on Tuesday, 03 July 2012.
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