Avatar News March 14, 2008

Written By:
Steph Kendall
Edited By:
Tara Topliff
Published By:
Avatar Ltd

Free Joomla! Poll Component

Greetings Net-heads,

If the new financial year means you're thinking about a new Web site for your business, why not think about whether a content management system (CMS) is for you or not. Alternatively, if you don't want to think about Web sites for a while, sit back and enjoy a few tidbit laughs.

Choosing A Content Management System (CMS) Web Site

Find out more about content management style (CMS) Web sites (sites that owners can update themselves) and look at the pitfalls of choosing a CMS without considering its search engine friendly capability, its functionality and its usability. Find out more about Joomla! CMS Web sites and some of the features that can be plugged into Joomla! installations.

View the full Choosing A Content Management System (CMS) Web Site article.

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Tidbits

This Month's Site of Interest

Out of the box solutions are not for everyone and programs may have to be created from scratch to meet the requirements of a particular project. One such project that presented itself to the Avatar programming team was Rec Radar.

Rec Radar

Rec RadarThe Brief— Rec Radar wanted to provide an international recruitment network for recruitment agencies, whereby professional recruiters could open online accounts to network and trade employers and jobseekers in order to fulfil their requirements. By trading online in a secure arena, these agencies could then share profits and develop business partnerships.

What We Did — We worked closely with Rec Radar to work out how this unique site would come to fruition. These included: