News from the Blog

Green Agency Launches Their Website with Simplweb Support

Thursday, 29 December 2011 15:16

Simplweb and the green agency Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County (SWANCC)! have worked hand in hand to launch their new community driven website.  The support staff at Simplweb worked closely with Cameron to address the setup and implementation of a fairly complex website that takes full advantage of the Joomla! access control levels and our powerful DocMan Extension The new simplified and highly organized design will better serve its residents, providing information on waste reduction, recycling and various programs the Agency offers for recycling or environmentally-friendly disposal of specific materials. 

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Orchard View Community Education Center Launches Simplweb Hosted Website

Tuesday, 25 October 2011 21:12

Orchard View Community Education Center, located in Muskegon, Michigan, just launched their elegant and interactive Simplweb website.  EnvigorDesign collaborated closely with the educational center to create a custom interface that focuses on early childhood through senior learning opportunities.

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Simplweb is For Artists Too!

Wednesday, 05 October 2011 16:17

Simplweb is for artists, photographers, musicians and writers too!  That's right, you can customize your Joomla! ultra-secure website as a Simplweb subscriber to feature your unique portfolio.  Each Simplweb site comes equipped with 19 different templates options, plus we'll install any Joomla! certified template*.   One such newly launched website is www.MarvinLazarus.com which features the world renowned black and white photographs of Marvin Lazarus.

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New Ultra Secure Joomla Hosting from Simplweb

Thursday, 23 June 2011 19:42

We are excited to announce that Simplweb has launched a new addition to its Joomla hosting SaaS platform to make sites ultra-secure and safe from would-be hackers.

Simplweb already provides a much higher level of security than traditional Joomla hosts with our internal active monitoring systems. We have now partnered with SecureLive.net, the most effective global security system ever engineered. Over 60 Million hacks blocked, thousands of hackers shut down and many active prosecutions. SecureLive is a live and real time service that runs in the background. It detects, blocks and then reports hacking attempts to your site.

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Facebook Buttons and When to Use Them

Thursday, 19 May 2011 13:52

A couple of weeks ago I wrote a popular blog post about “Making Social Media Work”. I used some of those ideas in a presentation at Joomla Day New England (link has audio and video!) about how to use Social Media to get sticky traffic for your site. One recurring question was about Facebook etc buttons.

As I mention in the post and presentation, you need to figure out where your audience lives, what your Social Media Outposts are. A recent site launch of a Simplweb customer for a local Nordic Skiing Center got 130 Facebook fans in just 2 weeks. There, the business and the locals in the town are all socially connected through Facebook.

The hard reality is that putting facebook buttons on your site isn’t going to do much. I used the example of cnn.com only getting a couple of hundred likes on a lead story. For most of us, we don’t have CNN’s traffic, and our buttons just end up un-liked and lonely. So what's a better way to use Facebook?

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