Web Design

F2 recommends and develops applications for the Joomla! content management system (CMS), and so the F2 web design service is structured to provide you with complete information relating to how you can manage your website in-house.  There are a multitude of 3rd party extensions for the Joomla! CMS, providing such functionalities as shopping carts, document managment, banner/image management, SEO and so on; effectively making Joomla! not just a content management system, but also an operating system much like you are running on your home or office computer.

Designing for Joomla! is simplified in that it is a template 'engine', enabling multiple layouts and styles to be introduced within the one website; so much so that many 3rd party template design services have sprung up offering Joomla!-specific templates that may be purchased and customised to suit your organisation's requirements. Structurally websites can be very much the same, so in creating a custom website design for your organisation, the time take on the design component itself can be reduced dramatically by having you and your colleagues look through template sites, such as TemplateMonster.com, select two or three examples of sites that you like and noting down what you like about each design.  Items such as where the menu is located; is it horizontal at the top of the page? Is it underneath a banner/header image area?  Are there specific effects on the menu that you like?  Do you need banner images to rotate from one photo to the next? ... and so on.  Note that the way in which the content is laid out within your site will ultimately depend on the content itself and our team is here to guide you through the process of implementing the site as simply and easily as possible.

The F2 skill set includes the following list of design and development technologies: Photoshop, Dreamweaver, HTML, Flash, ActionScript, JavaScript, AJAX, PHP, MySQL, XML, XHTML, Smarty.

Contact F2 now for a complete analysis of your web site and online business marketing and management needs. Remember, our goal is not merely to produce a web site for your business, but to implement systems to help manage your online business and to enable you to move from brochureware to businessware.