Website Services

Website Support Services

If you're new to Joomla and interested in building and maintaining your own websites we can provide you with as much or as little support as needed to suit your requirements. We can assist you with registering domains, choosing a host, installing Joomla, modifying templates, choosing, installing and configuring Joomla Components, templates, modules and plugins, and also set up E-commerce for you. We can also set up mail servers for you to suit your email requirements. We are extremely flexible and can provide a high level of support at the begining of your project, which we can reduce as we teach you how to manage without us.

If you don't want to get involved or don't have the time, we can build you a website, and manage it for you, including software updates, site updates, search engine optimisation, managing pay per click advertising campaigns etc. We are extremely flexible and can provide a support package to suit your needs.

For existing Joomla users we offer all kinds of support, installing additional components, modules and plugins, maintaining online stores, troubleshooting and fixing problems, website backups, website migration, and website rebuilds.

Joomla Website Design Services

Portsmouth Computing's preferred content management system is the award winning Joomla!. We have been working with Joomla, its components, modules, plugins and templates since it evolved. Prior to that we worked for several years with Mambo and also with Typo3. We bagan using various software pakages to produce websites well over ten years ago, and before that we used the good old text editor, which we still use now.

Joomla! is a free, award-winning content management system written in PHP which is allows users to easily publish their content on the world wide web and intranets. Joomla is created as an open-source project where individuals and teams contribute their skills to its development as well as its supporting systems.

While Joomla is packed with features, its greatest quality is that it is extremely extensible. Because of its extensible structure, there aren't many things you cannot do with Joomla!. There are several thousand extensions for Joomla, here's a short list of some that we use on a regular basis;

We provide all levels of Joomla website support via our private customer forums, from simple Joomla modifications to complex website issues our forums provide an excelent method of communication, with the added benefit of documenting problems, changes, and solutions.

Here are just a few examples of areas in which we support our customers with their own secure, private customer support forums Read more...

If your looking for a cost effective hosting solution for your Joomla site we recommend Siteground, who have very competitive Joomla Hosting packages which include cPanel. Apart from hosting Joomla on our own servers we have used several Joomla hosts over the years and found Siteground to be one of the best for all round performance, and price. Siteground Joomla hosting services include;

• Most technically advanced host
• Experienced and friendly staff
• Cpanel Hosting
• FREE Joomla installation
• Joomla-optimized servers
• 24/7 Joomla support99.9% server uptime
• FREE domain name
• Unlimited traffic
• Unlimited web space
• Unlimited email accounts
• Over 200 free Joomla templates
• Over 3000 free articles and tutorials

If you are not happy with your current Joomla host Siteground can assist you with site transfer and currently offer the following

• Free file transfer and database transfer.
• Siteground also have a selection of over 200 free Joomla templates available.

We are familiar with installing Joomla and managing sites on Siteground If you need some help or advice, please contact us. We can provide you with as little or as much support as you require.

Additional services are also available from from Siteground

Secure direct access to your host server
Through an SSH (Secure Shell) connection you can easily manage your files and folders, modify their permissions, edit files directly on the server, etc. It is the perfect solution for transferring large files, folders and even databases. Read more...

We are extremely experienced in updating Joomla to the latest version, we have successfully updated Joomla on hundreds of sites and we are aware of the various problems that this can create, and the necessary solutions.

For a free Joomla version update proposal please complete the form below and click submit. Please provide as much information as possible to enable us to respond quickly.

We are extremely experienced in moving Joomla sites from one host to another, our standard service costs £100 which quite often can be saved with reduced hosting fees, we also offer a 50% discount should you take out a support subscription. Our standard Joomla site transfer includes the following;

• File transfer.
• Database transfer.
  
• Mail server setup.
• A site backup facility within Joomla to back up your files and database.
• A free one month subscription to your own secure customer support forum where all information relating to your site is held.