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Weboo can turn your on-line presence from a web site that is occasionally updated, hard to change, and a chore to manage, to a flexible system with massive growth potential and the ability to achieve your organisations on-line goals.

Content Management Systems (CMS) can assist your business to achieve these goals. Weboo are CMS specialists. With over 6 years experience with a wide range of CMS solutions, Weboo can assist your business to get a web site that meets your needs.

Content Management Systems (CMS) offer the following benefits to small and medium sized businesses:

• Easy to use. No longer do businesses have to learn code to maintain their web site, CMS use a What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) approach to managing content. Microsoft Word is an excellent demonstration of a WYSIWYG program as it prints on paper what you see on the screen. CMS use WYSIWYG editors in the same way as Microsoft Word by enabling web site editors to see their changes as they will look on the web site before they apply them.
• Image and file management. CMS make adding a photo of a new staff member, photos of your last job, or the annual report, easy. Simply upload the file to your web site via the CMS, and link the file to the appropriate page. Images can also been seen and positioned via WYSIWYG editor.
• Fast additional functionality. Do you want to make money from your web site with an on-line store or offer visitors the ability to sign up to a newsletter? CMS offer a plug-in system for adding new features and systems to existing web sites quickly.
• Security and Updates. The internet can be a dangerous place and there are thousands of hackers trying to gain access to private information. As the updates are released they are applied to your web site as part of the maintenance agreement and your site continues to be extremely secure and benefit from additional new features or bug fixes.
• Vendor-independent flexibility. If you find Weboo doesn’t offer you the extraordinary level of service you expect from your web site professionals, or you want to work with other web site professionals, you are welcome to. Weboo does not own your web site, it is created by Weboo using open-source software. This means you can have other web site professionals work on your web site. Unlike other companies, we will not ask you to sign any licenses or lock you into exclusivity agreements with us.
• Templates. Professional businesses update the look and feel of their web site every 1 or 2 years on average. Often this is important to show web site visitors the organisation takes the web site seriously and the changes often incorporates current design and web technologies. Using CMS, updating the look and feel of your web site is easy. The CMS has a template systems which enable the whole site to change its look and feel. Changing the look and feel or your site is now a cost-effective and time-efficient process which offers your business the ability to change with your market.

Weboo can deliver the following aspects for your web site:

• Professional look and feel thanks for a large selection of ready-made templates or custom-built templates from world-class designers based on your logo and style guide.
• Easy to update and modify. Weboo includes a minimum of 2 hours training with all of its web sites to ensure your business can quickly make the most of your new web site.
• Lower cost than traditional web sites. Due to the flexibility and ease of use, the CMS costs less to setup and less to maintain than traditional web sites. Plus, leveraging open-source software means the cost is dramatically lower.
• Flexibility to work with the best web site development business, not the one that manages or owns your web site.
• Fast development and implementation. Weboo’s web sites are quickly developed and implemented enabling customers to begin utilising their new web site sooner.
• Support. Weboo offers some of the best customer support in its field. If we are unable to answer your query, we will work with our customer to investigate and resolve their question.
• Expansion. As your web presence expands, Weboo can offer you the fastest method to incorporate new features in to your site whether this be standard features like a blog or advanced features such as the latest advertising or payment systems.

To find out how Weboo can assist you to maximise your web site’s online presence and gain all of the benefits listed above, email or call us, we look forward to hearing from you.

Recently I heard about a conference called Future of Web Apps or FOWA for short. This conference is in America and involves staff from popular and influential web businesses giving presentations. Businesses who present include Digg, Yahoo, Google, Amazon, New York Times, and the list goes on. These presenters offer insights into what these organisations are currently working on and what they think is going to be the next big thing. Naturally I was very interested to attend except the cost and time requirements are not feasible for me.

Once I heard about this conference I found out about similar conferences such as the Mesh Conference in Vancouver and SXSW in America. Both of these conferences attract people who are successful in the field of online business and offer inspiring insight into overseas trends and business ventures.

So I began investigating if I could access the information presented at these conferences and I quickly learnt that podcasts of most key note presentations are available after the event from their web sites. Many of the podcasts are professionally recorded and edited.

Of course these podcasts do not replace attending the conferences as often presentations are not uploaded afterwards (so if a speaker refers to a slide or graph you have to use your imagination) and not all of the content from work shops, meetings, and networking sessions, is available.

If you are involved in a particular industry which has conferences that you are unable to attend, I suggest you investigate if they offer podcasts. They are usually free and offer the next best thing to being there.

Have you found any conferences which offers podcasts? If so, please add a comment and inform our listeners so they can benefit from your knowledge.