August 22nd, 2007
Here is the history of Foliovision with Mambo and Joomla. Our first major project in a CMS (as opposed to SSI - server side includes) was a Mambo project. Dr. Ian Firla and I built a monumental mortgage site with what seemed like our bare hands.
Making Mambo work as well for SEO as flat html files was a monumental task, but one at which we were ultimately successful. After careful consideration of how slow and unwieldy Mambo became in production, we made the decision to move to Wordpress (at that point at 1.2 with 1.5 coming soon).
As you can see, we haven't looked back.
But developers are strange creatures. Our CIO who encouraged me to move to Wordpress back then- after inheriting the mortgage site - later decided that he would like to learn some new programming languages. He even suggested we switch over to Ruby on Rails.
That's something I said no to. We are so conversant now in Wordpress, why would we want to use something else?
There is nothing we can't do in Wordpress and PHP is a flexible and quick language. Of course we have to keep our own set of built modules ready but at the end of the day it makes more sense to stay with what we know and what we can easily adapt.
Stay expert!
Thank you Mambo and Joomla. And goodbye. We won't forget you.
But life is easier apart.
alec |
WordPress |
October 22nd, 2006
What is making the web work for you?
Making the web work for you is making your website generate more leads and more customers and more publicity for your business than the time or money you put in.
Happy Foliovision Clients - 9.2007
We help our clients have more days like this every year.
We make owning a successful website easy and profitable,
leaving you time to live your life and run your business.
For a successful professional one of the toughest part of creating a successful website is the time it sucks away from other crucial parts of your business:
- speaking with clients
- making the deals with clients
- training staff
- fitness and leisure activities
You are successful. You know that every available hour for your business should be spent with your clients or on strategy.
Why would you want to take on a second career as a website publisher? If you're smart, you wouldn't. You are successful - you don't have time.
But trusting your website to just anyone won't work either. The website must:
- look good
- have lots of information
- be popular in the search engines
- convert leads
- regularly add new information
Blow any one of these and your website will be next to worthless. Most web design companies can get one or two of these right. Frankly you need to hit all five, if you want to have lasting success on the web.
All of our client websites have all of those traits. And our websites require minimal intervention from the client.
On the other hand, many of our clients do send us ideas about new features for their websites. From idea to fully functional feature is our issue. Your idea can be a functional new feature in as little as 48 hours, leaving you free to keep doing what you do best: running a successful professional practice and improving your business.
Our clients average about 5 times return on investment on new business alone from their website. We are not talking about referral business converted but only about new internet leads.
Business they would not have obtained in any other way than the internet.
If you are a successful professional in private practice, we can do the same for you.
Many of our customers businesses generally experience close to 100% annual growth while we are working with them.
An accident. We think not.
and let us know about your situation. We'll let you know if and how we can help you.
If you'd like to go it alone, don't miss our weblog on SEO and internet marketing. We share a lot of the nuts and bolts of how to develop a successful website there.
martina |
WordPress |
August 7th, 2006
Foliovision s.r.o. is an international web design and marketing company located in the heart of Europe between Vienna and Budapest.
Devin Castle - home base for Foliovision
We specialise in the sectors of real estate, insurance and mortgage financing.
alec |
WordPress |
