Joomla CMS Web Design in Sri Lanka

Among various  open source CMS solutions  JOOMLA is in a top three, due to the user-friendliness of ease of use  for non technical users.

CMS is powered by modules and components which drive the content hierachy.Article nodes can be  created at will to enter textual , media or imagery content.Web design in Sri Lanka move fast with rest of the worl implementing the latest technology not only to private oragnisations but also government and local government information departments

We  Surrey technology consulting drive the  CMS  marketplace in Sri lanka  providing cutting edge CMS  drive solution no matter what your market or niche is.

We have implemented solutions to clients in Sri Lanka, UK , US,Canada, Nothern Ireland , which gives us the  credibility unparelel to any other  technolofy consultancy or digital web agency.

Take a look at our portfolio which has plenty of our client profiles.If you like to get a non nonsense consultation , please contact our  technical deliver lead, who will help with all your  quaries.Dont  forget to ask how the  change made by us using Joomla implementations has succeeded in soearch engine postions aswell

Core Elements of  Joomal CMS  stack

* Components
* Modules
* Plugging
* Templates ....

Special Features of Joomla

Joomla Default Components

Components are core elements of Joomla!’s functionality. These core elements include Content, Banners, Contact, News Feeds, Polls and Web Links. According to the design of the template which uses in the site, this Content elements or applications will usually displayed in the center of the main content area of a template.

As we mentioned above, there are few main elements in the joomla components.

Banners
Contact
News Feed
Polls
Search
Web Links

Banners

This component element uses to crate advertising items on a site. In here it can uses images and graphics attractively as the user wish.

When you create a banner there are few tabs that you should get use as follows;

Banners
Clients
Categories

So by following those steps you will able to build creative banners for your site. if you need to feel what it looks like, WE SURREY TECHNOLOGY CONSULTING ltd have created most of banners for our clients and if you visit them through our portfolio, you would able to get a better idea of this.

Contact
In Joomla, the “contact” which is under the components group also known as contact forms, uses to create a form on the site which helps to the users of that site to build connections with the site master.
When crating these forms, the developers have the ability to select, what are the details that should give a user when he or she is connecting with the site.
Also there have the ability to create new contacts, edit present contacts and delete contacts.
Most of SURREY TECHNOLOGY creations, you will able to see those contact forms, as it is looking as a necessary item of a website.

News Feed
This is also another very useful joomla component and uses to show most recent news associated to the site. A news feed is created in XML format and is supplied in the form of RSS, RDF, or Atom feeds. These icons may appear on the page being viewed but also within the Browser being used. For example, in Mozilla Firefox the RSS icon appears in the address window, whereas, in IE7 a notice that the feed is available appears in the toolbar.

RSS is the acronym for Rich Site Summary.

Polls
The joomla poll element in component list is one of special item on a web site and a the web master will have the ability to use it or not according to the concept of the project. this allows to the web master to create a poll on his site with publishing or un-publishing the options which are given by the component.

Search
This is the most common and useful element in the default component list of joomla.
The searching function in a site, not only uses in the joomla sites but also it uses in any method of building web sites. But the specification in joomla components is, they have make easy of using it by making it as a component and by following very few simple steps, the developers will able to add a search on to the site.

Web links
This component provides the options to control the web links which will display on the site and to manage their activities.
In here, it mainly uses two options as “Links” and “Categories”, and the developer first have to create a category and then the links. .
The link tab will display a list of active list organize by category and order.
The “categories” tab allows whole categories of links to be organize and “published” status changes.

Joomla Modules

When it consider about a joomla sites, Modules have taken a great place, as to perform most special functionality on those sites, it is doing a glorious work. Actually, except the content area of a joomla site, most of the other positions will be covered by various types of modules.
There are lots of commercial and non-commercial (free) resources for joomla modules and there for it is very easy to find any kind of joomla module according to the need of the client.
Normally as default, there are few types of joomla modules as follows.

Archived Contents
Banners & Feed
Custom HTML
Breadcrumbs
Footer
Login
Menu
Most Read & Latest News
News Flash
Polls
Random Image
Related Items
Search
Sections
Statistics

Joomla Plugging

These are also very helpful in crating sites as sometimes some modules and components are not able to do there functions by them-self alone. so as those times, Plugging will solve those troubles.
actually plugging are set of external elements which are supported for other modules and components.

Here are a list of several default plugging in joomla.

Authentication (Joomla !, LDAP, OpenID, GMail)
Cache
Code Highlighter (GeSHi)
Email Cloaking
Editors (Tiny MC 2.1 & Xstandard Lite for Joomla !)
Editors - XTD (Image, Page Break, Readmore)
Legacy
Rating
Search ( Categories, News feed, Section, Contacts, Content, Web links)
SEF
XML - RPC (Blogger API, Joomla ! API)

Joomla Templates

Templates are normally the structure suppliers of a site and in Joomla, it also gives that advantage to the developer as when they use a template, it will save the much more time of that crating as if not, the developer should have to build the structure too by himself.
In Joomla, they provide several sample templates and if need there are lots of commercial and non-commercial templates to select as we want.
Another important fact in joomla template is, they provide the positions for modules and it make the way more easy to keep modules in suitable positions.