Website development best practice techniques are the foundation of great search engine optimisation.

Small to medium businesses throughout the Mid-North-Coast of New South Wales are trying to build their business profile in the eyes of potential customers with often sub standard websites. The problem is that for too long, website development has been too expensive if sourced from top web development firms in Australia. Time to market and cost of delivery has kept the smaller and start-up businesses from getting the quality and service they deserve.

I recently posted a blog article titled, “Web Standards” and why so many sites are missing them? Please have a read and leave any comments to join in what I think is a very important subject. 

Delivery of a website project no longer has to be cost prohibitive.

A hard concept to get across to small business owners is the emergence of Open Source Software. Open Source Software is developed by volunteer developers world wide and the result is fully functional software that is available for use at no charge. What does open source software have to do with the cost and obtainability of good quality websites? One of the amazing open source software solutions available is the Joomla Content Management System (CMS). A content management system is a tool used to update the content on a website without needing to learn HTML coding. Traditionally a content management system has been reserved for top Australian enterprises at a cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Now small business operators can a fully functional website developed at reasonable costs and have control over updating the content of the site with only the knowledge of how to use a word processor.