We are proud to help businesses with limited budgets to get a highly professional modern website without sacrificing quality. If you are technically savvy, here is what you can do:
- Download an open-source free web content management system (CMS) like Joomla
- Source a quality pre-designed template, provided by reputable design houses, and upload this template into Joomla or other open-source CMS (do not get yourself locked into a proprietary CMS, this will be a very expensive mistake in the long run)
- Customize this template's visual elements, add your own content, upload images and/or video - and voila!
You have a great website, SEO-friendly, scalable and easy-to-manage, and at ~50-80% the cost of a custom "from scratch" design!
The problem is... few business owners are aware of this route!
In fact, we were surprised to discover (time and time again!) that not only small businesses, but even technology companies are seldom aware of all the benefits Joomla and other open-source content management systems can deliver. We think the main reason behind this is that Joomla and other open-source projects are run by non-profit organizations; they do not engage in aggressive marketing; their main marketing vehicle is word-of-mouth referrals by users - something Joomla Bliss is striving to achieve as well. As a result, most businesses pay premium for custom "designed-from-scratch" websites (that often end up being of questionable quilty) and in addition get themselves locked into some proprietary CMS where they have to pay annual fees or programming fees for each additional tweak or modification.
