Small Business Websites
Why Choose Us To Design Your Small Business Web Site
North Country Design follows three simple guidelines in our small business web design strategy:1) Provide our customers creative, professional web site services
2) Make those web design services as cost-effective as possible
3) Teach our customers how to use their new software so that they can manage their own updates
We have built a name for our business by following those three guidelines. We have spoken to hundreds of people since our small business was created and the top two complaints they have had about web designers is the price they were charged and the service that they received. In the end, they're not very happy with the experience. North Country Design rewrote the book on customer service and guess what - we offer that free as well!
Why You Need a Joomla CMS Website
What is Joomla?
Joomla is an open-source web site design software solution that is 100% free. We have built some very cool web sites using Joomla (including this one) and we recommend Joomla to anyone who is looking to get a high-functioning web site created. Other popular CMS options include Wordpress and Drupal. North Country Design only uses Joomla, however. If you want a Wordpress site, you'll need to search for someone else.
What Exactly Is a CMS & Why Do I Need It?
Years ago websites were created in standard HTML. All of the pages were built individually and it took a lot of code to get web sites to do anything 'fancy'. As internet speeds increased there became a need for web site speeds to increase as well. Joomla uses a SQL Database to store all of the information it needs in little cubby holes. When it shows a page, it knows where to go to grab that information and display it to your audience. A Content Management System works behind the scenes of your web site to allow you to easily update content, add new articles, add new photos, post new videos and maintain your site without contacting a web designer to handle every minor update. In fact, we encourage our customers to roll up their sleeves and learn as much as they can about their administration panel so that they can save money!
The best part is - if you decide to change the look and feel of your web site down the road you don't have to retype your articles and content. You find a new design, implement it, tweak the layout a bit and presto ... you have yourself a new website!
