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KDM Design & Marketing offers creative marketing services. We also offer full color commercial printing services and direct mail with postal fulfillment.We are are also Tampa Bay's experts at implementing the Joomla! Content Management System.

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KDM Design and Marketing and Joomla!

The Joomla Content Management System (CMS) is an award winning open source content management system that is superb at building a wide variety of web site portals. From news site to corporate web sites to business directories Joomla is geared to provide your company an expandable web site solution that will grow with your company as you need it to.

KDM Design and Marketing Consultants are the Joomla experts in the Tampa Bay Area. We've worked with Joomla since its inception 4 years ago and know everything about this CMS from installation, selecting the right hosting company, taking advantage of its Web 2.0 capabilities. By implementing proper SEO techniques as well and many other tangible and intangible advantages, choosing KDM for your Joomla! CMS web site development makes good sense!.

KDM uses the Joomla! Content Management System (CMS) to develop web sites. The Joomla! CMS is a web portal CMS that runs on the PHP platform. Joomla! operates on a Linux Server platform but runs equally as well in a Window IIS system. Joomla! is an extremely versitile piece of software. It works fantastic whether you are developing a web site for a small business or a large corporation.

KDM has designed dozens of Joomla web sites for many satisfied customers.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Search Engine Marketing (SEM) and Pay-Per-Click (PPC) can bring in more leads than all other marketing efforts combined.The Yellow Pages, TV, Radio, Direct Mail, Print Ads, Billboards and other forms of traditional advertising just can't keep up with the popularity of the Internet. The Internet’s use of search engines makes your search engine presence one of the most important vehicles in a successful marketing program.

The two phases of KDM’s TopSpot™ Search Engine Optimization are:

1. TopSpot™ Initial Optimization – Site Design, Implementation, and Trademarked SEO Structuring Techniques.
2. TopSpot™ Ongoing Optimization - Link Building, Networking, Copywriting, Page Building, Reporting and Trademarked SEO Techniques

TopSpot™ Initial Optimization programs: Starting at $2,500

TopSpot™Ongoing Optimization:

TopSpot™ Ongoing “maintenance” and optimization is critical in achieving top SEO results.

Web optimization requires updating to keep in sync with algorithm changes, new site postings, and building your page rank or “value” on the web.

Ongoing Optimization Packages:

Worked out o a monthly basis. Money spent in Search Engine Marketing can bring more business than other advertising techniques.

KDM encourages purchasing valued and targeted keywords on Yahoo or Google in addition to our TopSpot™ SEO Packages.

KDM uses the Joomla! Content Management System (CMS) to develop web sites. The Joomla! CMS is a web portal CMS that runs on the PHP platform. Joomla! operates on a Linux Server platform but runs equally as well in a Window IIS system. Joomla! is an extremely versitile piece of software. It works fantastic whether you are developing a web site for a small business or a large corporation.

Some of the different applications you can take advatage of by investing in a Joomla! CMS web site are:

1. Corpoarate Web Portals
2. Web Site Directories
3. Online-Magazinies
4. E-Commerce Shopping Cart Sites
5. Document Repository
6. Catalogs
7. Photography/Artwork Portfolios
8. Real Estate Agent and Brokerage Web Sites with Listing Management Integration - MLS Integration is also available
9. Car Dealership with Inventory Listing  Management
10. Yacht Club Software for Slip Rental & Sales, Boat Listings
11. Online Communities
12. and much more

What is Joomla! CMS and why does my company need it?

KDM uses the award winning Joomla! Content Management System to build everything from web portals for business, e-commerce and complex intranets. With our custom breathtaking designs and ease of use your web site can finally become an integral part of your marketing strategy. KDM guarantees that you will love your Joomla! Web site.

KDM is the only company on Florida's West Coast that are experts in all aspects of the Joomla! Content Management System.

Joomla! in Action

Joomla! is used all over the world to power everything from simple, personal homepages to complex corporate web applications such as:

• Corporate websites or portals
• Online commerce
• Small business websites
• Non-profit and organizational websites
• Government applications
• Corporate intranets and extranets
• School and church websites
• Personal or family homepages
• Community-based portals
• Magazines and newspapers
• the possibilities are limitless…

Joomla! for End Users

Once Joomla! is installed and running, it is simple for even non-technical users to add or edit content, update images, and to manage the critical data that makes your company or organization go. Anybody with basic word processing skills can easily learn to manage a Joomla! site.

Via a simple, browser-based interface you will be able to easily add new press releases or news items, manage staff pages, job listings, product images, and create an unlimited amount of sections or content pages on your site. You can try our simple demo to get quick taste of what Joomla! is all about.

The definition of the term Web 2.0 is an evolving one, but it is generally agreed that Web 2.0 refers to a second generation of Internet services that let people collaborate and share information online. In contrast to the first generation, in Web 2.0, the Internet functions as a computing platform that serves web applications to end users. In this way, it provides an experience closer to desktop applications than the traditional static Web pages. All of KDM Design and Marketing Joomla! Web Sites are Web 2.0.

Taking Joomla! to the Next Level
Out of the box, Joomla! does a great job of managing the content needed to make your website sing. But for many companies, the true power of Joomla! lies in the application framework that makes it possible for thousands of developers around the world to create powerful add-ons and extensions. Here are just some examples of the hundreds of available extensions:

• Dynamic form builders
• Business or organizational directories
• Document management
• image and multimedia galleries
• E-commerce and shopping cart engines
• Forums and chat software
• Calendars
• Blogging software
• Directory services
• Email newsletters
• Data collection and reporting tools
• Banner advertising systems
• Subscription services
• and many, many more…

You can find more examples over at our growing Joomla! Extensions Directory. Prepare to be amazed at the amount of exciting work produced by our active developer community!

Joomla! for Developers
Joomla! offers a powerful application framework that makes it easy for developers to create sophisticated add-ons that extend the power of Joomla! into virtually unlimited directions.

Using the core framework, developers can easily build:

• Integrated e-commerce systems
• Inventory control systems
• Data reporting tools
• Custom product catalogs
• Complex business directories
• Reservation systems
• Communication tools
• Application bridges
• or any kind of application to suit a unique need…