A URL is a “Uniform Resource Locator” often referred to as the “website address”. The URL specifies where specific Internet files are located, allowing the browser to graphically present that specific page.
Most websites built around a Content Management System or shopping cart will show some of the query code in the URL. It may contain scrambled letters and numbers, question marks and equal signs.
In comparison, a “clean URL” does not contain this query code and that makes the URL more search engine friendly. A clean URL is ideally named to contain key search words for more traffic. In addition, a clean URL looks like static content (like an .html page) to Google bringing more traffic than a dynamic page. Lastly, a clean URL is easier to type and read in search results pages.
Unclean URL: http://www.example.com/index.php?page=marketing/consulting
Clean URL: http://www.example.com/marketing/consultin
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Following the successful launch and performance of two prior web development projects, Specialty Enzymes and Biochemicals, in Chino California, recently contracted SoCal WebWorx to design and develop a third company website for Advanced Supplemental Therapies.
The site was built from a Joomla platform http://www.joomla.org with an easy-to-use admin panel for frequent client revisions. The WYSIWYG editor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYSIWYG makes changes to the website pages a snap. And for more ambitious users it allows for revising page formatting including sidebars, skin colors and banner images. Since Joomla is a popular Content Management System platform there are lots of plug-ins and add-on features available from reputable contributors. In addition, this platform allows for developing a very Search Engine friendly website. A generous dose of keyword rich verbiage from the client and full Meta tagging combine to generate maximum organic website traffic.
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A new shopping cart addition to the Intex Exhibits website was launched last Thursday by SoCal WebWorx. Intex Exhibits is a full-service exhibition resources company in Orange, California, providing service for businesses, organizations and museums throughout Southern California and across the United States.
Intex Exhibits is now the sole US distributor for Mustang Systems, a French manufacturer of suspended display systems using cables and rods. With this additional cart on their website, Intex Exhibits now adds the complete catalog of Mustang System products to their website.
SoCal WebWorx handled the website design, development and search engine optimization. Special features include a seamless interface with the existing Intex Exhibits website which was also designed and developed by SoCal WebWorx in August 2009. The back-end administrative panel allows the client easy access to updating and adding new products and pricing including images and photos. The cart mechanism utilizes a CMS (Content Management System) for visitors’ easy retrieval of product information.
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SoCal WebWorx is pleased to announce the official launch of the AST Enzymes new Drupal CMS Shopping Cart website. This Drupal site is completely custom designed to fit the client’s needs. We’ve also added the addition of a “Doctor’s” and “Wholesaler’s” portal registration form and login pages. These logins will allow user’s with these privileges to view additional content the public is not allowed to see as well as purchase product at a discounted price. The shopping cart itself is built-out using the UberCart shopping cart module for Drupal. This shopping cart module is very powerful and has many payment and shipping plug-ins available. Checkout our CMS portfolio page to view this website along with the rest of our Content Management Website samples.
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Content management systems (or CMS) are software used to create and manage diverse content. They are designed to allow those with beginning programming knowledge to easily build a site and manage content easily. The software features tools like templates to help make the process streamlined and user friendly. Several different CMS’s exist including Joomla, Drupal, and WordPress. Each system has slightly different features giving them certain advantages depending on the users’ intent and familiarity with programming.
In terms of publishing blogs, WordPress is by far the most popular software. One of the most appealing features of WordPress is its user-friendly interface. Unlike Joomla and Drupal, a user needs almost no prior programming experience to start up a WordPress blog. In addition the software and support is free and it features over 90 themes and “blogs of the day” and tags to increase traffic. WordPress MU or (Multiple User) is also available to those who want to host a blog community. Through MU a user with a website can manage all the blogs within their “community” from a single centralized dashboard.
WordPress is also a good CMS for climbing search results. Blogging can be a great tool to increase traffic to a site. By using title and headline tags, and keywords in text descriptions of photos and links to other pages a user can attract a higher rate of visitors to the site. Blogging regularly is also an important tool to help guarantee a high traffic flow.
WordPress is great software for those who prefer the do-it-yourself route. If you can use Facebook or email you can use WordPress. The software makes it easy to optimize search engine results and is free to use.
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At SoCal WebWorx we offer services for sites of all types and sizes. If you are looking to develop a website with a large inventory of products we can build a content management system to manage your product information in the most efficient way. A content management system, or CMS, is software that allows us to create a database to store content within your website. One type of software we use to create these systems is called Drupal. Drupal is a back-end CMS system, meaning that it is the software that supports your site and makes it functional. Drupal is used by many high profile sites including Whitehouse.gov and Economist.com, and for good reason, there are several excellent benefits to using this content management system.
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- A database will be created that allows your visitor to easily perform product searches, sorting and comparisons.
- The content of your site will be easy to edit with very little programming knowledge.
- The system will provide automated templates, which standardize your content and allow you to change all your content easily from one place.
- The software will provide document management tools to help you track your documents from the original drafty through publication and archival.
- The software allows multiple users to create and manage content allowing you to customize content management to fit your site’s needs.
The image shows how the back-end Administrative Panel was customized to meet the client’s requirements. As you can see the editing functions are streamlined, easy to use and allow for extensive site access and client additions and revisions.
If you think a web-based Content Management System might help your business better showcase and manage its products give us a call at 949.360.9636 to talk about your options.
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Joomla! is a free open source content management system for publishing content on the World Wide Web and intranets as well as a Model–view–controller (MVC) Web Application Development framework. The system includes features such as page caching to improve performance, RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, news flashes, blogs, polls, website searching, and language internationalization. Joomla is licensed under the GPL, and is the result of a fork of Mambo.
It is written in the PHP programming language and uses the MySQL database.
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A content management system (CMS) is a computer application used to create, edit, manage, search and publish various kinds of digital media and electronic text. CMSs are frequently used for storing, controlling, versioning, and publishing industry-specific documentation such as news articles, operators’ manuals, technical manuals, sales guides, and marketing brochures. The content managed may include computer files, image media, audio files, video files, electronic documents, and Web content.
An enterprise content management (ECM) system is concerned with content and documents related to the organizational processes of an enterprise. The purpose is to manage the organization’s unstructured information content, with all its diversity of format and location.
A web content management (WCM) system is a CMS designed to simplify the publication of Web content to Web sites, in particular allowing content creators to submit content without requiring technical knowledge of HTML or the uploading of files.
A component content management (CCM) system is concerned with the content within documents. It can locate and link content at any level of organization, and it is used to build publications out of re-usable fragments of content.
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