CMS Solutions

‘Navega Bem’ have now launched their new website which demonstrates their CMS Real Estate Agent solution which has been carefully crafted around the Joomla 1.5 framework.

Chris Szabo, MD explained “The complete Property sites are managed through just one back office! Our new Joomla 1.5 component (’CMS Real Estate’) has been developed from the ground up with a complete new architecture and outperforms our original Joomla 1.0 version with ease.”

“Utilizing Joomla 1.5 as the framework of your web site in conjunction with our ‘CMS Real Estate’ component, you can run a multilingual CMS Real Estate Agency website that you can manage from anywhere in the world. All you need is an internet connection and a standard browser.”

“We provide a complete, ready to launch website that includes a unique design (we don’t use templates), initial search engine optimization and pre-launch marketing. All you have to do is add or import your properties and off you go. It’s that easy!”

Navega Bem are not marketing their Real Estate component separately.
Chris explained “we are focused on providing Real Estate agencies with a complete turnkey solution. We don’t want to get into sales and marketing to other web site developers as we don’t have the resources or the wish to get into a support role. Our objective is give Real Estate agencies an all encompassing solution that allows then to begin selling their properties immediately - without having to get to grips with complicated management software.”

Visit the new demonstration site at www.cms-realestate.net

The Montenegrin Real Estate company ‘Proper Property Monte‘ have launched their new agency site targeting the Russian market.

The site was developed by Joomla specialists ‘Navega Bem - Web Design‘ based on Madeira island - Portugal.

Chris Szabo, MD of the development company explained “this site is one of our first to encompass our all new Real Estate Agent component that we have developed in house over the last months which is specifically made for Joomla 1.5″

“The multilingual site allows for extremely simple management of properties and has many additional features that make it highly competitive with other high end professional solutions on the market - but with no license fees, maintenance fees, monthly fees or setup costs.”

Chris went on to explain “We don’t sell our component to other developers. We don’t particularly want to get into the software sales market and begin offering support services etc.  We focus on creating complete Real Estate Agent websites with unique template designs and initial Search Engine Optimisation. Our clients simply have to begin adding or importing their properties. We are not new to the Realty market and have in the past developed several sites with our own component for Joomla 1.0 - however, just like Joomla 1.5 our new component has been programmed with a completely new architecture and the focus has been on ease of use for the non-technical client. Agencies can focus on marketing their properties without spending valuable time learning new software. We shall continue to develop our component and provide free updates to existing 1.5 clients.”

Chris explained “we are now completing a further 2 Real Estate sites for clients and preparing an online demo that potential customers can test drive and with full explanations and screenshots of the property management area - we expect that to go live within the next month.”

To learn more about complete and unique Real Estate Agent websites crafted with Joomla 1.5 visit Navega Bem - Web Design.

Ask the average company director if his website can be found in the search engines and he will say ‘yes’. He will probably even do a search for his company name to prove it to you.

But try searching for that company’s services or products. For example if a company designs websites in Madeira, do a search for ‘web design Madeira‘ or ‘web design Portugal‘.

Most of the time you won’t find any listings for a company on the first 4 or 5 pages. Why? Because the website has not been optimized for the search engines.

Now let’s face it - it doesn’t matter how much you paid for your website or how attractive it is. If it can’t rapidly be found in the search engines then it is losing money for you every single day. Now that’s a very expensive and useless website!

How does Search Engine Optimization work?

‘Search engine optimization’ refers to the process of fine tuning a web site to achieve a high search engine ranking for specific keywords or phrases. The sort of phrases that your clients will try to find you with in a search engine. To achieve high search engine rankings, certain features of a web site must be optimized to make the site what we call ’search engine friendly’.

If you clicked on the ‘web design’ links above you will have seen that our website ‘Navega Bem - Web Design’ is listed in position 1 of page 1 of Google. We took the trouble to optimize our website and that is what we do for all the websites we develop.

To learn more about web sites that work visit Navega Bem - The Web Design Professionals.

The Internet is chock full of websites on every topic under the sun (and some outside of it too). So if you have a website and want users to keep coming back for more, you need to pamper them and cater to their tastes. But there are some sites that irritate rather than invite and intrigue as they are supposed to do, and this is because:

•    They use pop-ups: These are the biggest intruders when you’re surfing a web page, especially if they pop up at an inopportune moment when you’re reading something important. Users are never going to read what’s on them and are more focused on closing them quickly.

•    They open new windows each time a link is clicked: With the convenience that tabbed browsing offers, it’s now a nuisance to navigate between different windows, especially when you’re used to organizing your desktop content according to different tabs and windows based on the subject you’re looking up. A website that insists on popping up new windows for each link is a definite no-no in my book.

•    They use dark backgrounds: Have you ever tried to read your own site? If so, you would realize that dark backgrounds hurt your eyes and make reading extremely difficult, more so if you combine it with text that is small and in a dark color too.

•    They pressure users to subscribe: Any website that requires you to subscribe and provide a number of personal details is just not going to get as many users as they would like. More than 50 percent of its visitors are likely to leave even before they enter because they don’t have the time to fill out forms.

•    They play music in the background: If you’ve got many web pages open and hear music streaming from one, it’s going to be one hell of a task to try and find the damn page that is making the noise. Although it may be music to your ears, it is noise as far as the user is concerned.

•    They include text that flashes: You may want to highlight certain words, but if you use flashing lights to do so, you can bet that they’re not going to be noticed because your reader is going to rush to find the close button to stop the pain in their eyes.

•    They have wide pages that require users to navigate from side to side: A web page that requires you to use the horizontal scroll bar makes reading difficult and concentration hard.

This post was contributed by Nicole White, who writes about online web design school. She welcomes your feedback at Nicole.White222 at gmail.com

The premiere Madeira island Levada Walking company ‘Madeira Explorers‘ has extended its vast array of professional services with the publication of a blog that encompasses all aspects of the popular and increasingly adhered to pastime of levada, mountain and ridge walking.

The company website which is available in three languages is already a very popular resource with potential tourists to the island. The addition of their blog will enable the professional walking guides to add their experiences and impressions of the many walks on the island - as well as giving clients the opportunity to post their views and images.

Visit the Madeira Explorers website here and the Madeira Levada Walks blog here.

Navega Bem is a company that is specialized in developing and designing websites that use Joomla as it’s Content Management System (CMS). This is a fact we’ve never kept hidden from our customers, and in fact, you can find Joomla plenty of times in our homepage.

We do this for two reasons:

1. We consider ourselves an Open company that tries to use Open Source solutions for our customers as much as possible in order to provide them with competitive and cost-efficient products.
2. Joomla is licensed under a GPL License which among under things tries to prevent companies from selling altered versions of a Licensed product, or make changes to the CMS without distributing it for free.

Joomla is built by a large community of people and they distribute their work for free. We do not claim credit for their work, we only claim credit for our ability to take their excellent CMS and make equally great-looking websites.

This brings more advantages to you, as a customer, than to us as a company, but it’s the proper thing to do. The companies that don’t disclose what CMS they’re using, and claim Joomla as if it were a proprietary system are basically putting these on their customers:

By keeping an open approach, you as a customer are free to choose any company that knows how to work with Joomla. We want people to come, or return to us, because of our quality service and websites, and never because they feel obligated to do so.

Here’s an example of a “masked Joomla”:

And here’s what the normal Joomla login looks like (taken from one of our websites):

Why is it bad for your CMS to be masked?

• Because you don’t know what it is! - It’s like buying a car and not knowing the brand
• You don’t know if you can turn to another company if need should arise. - If your “unbranded” car breaks down, who will you turn to?
• It’s insecure! -  Just as car companies recall their vehicles when they have flaws to fix them, Joomla is constantly updated to fix security flaws. These flaws might be affecting your website right now!

Next time you choose a company to build your website, whether it’s running Joomla, Wordpress or another CMS, try to make sure that they’re honest about what they’re using. What might seem like an attractive deal in a short term, might turn into a large expense in the long run.

Learn more about Joomla and CMS Solutions here.

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