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Marketing Collateral have changed the way people work We believe that a website should not take over your life, that a website is not the B all and End all of our business but it is very important to have one all the same. A website is your door to the outside world as well as your Shop window.
Life Cycle of a website development We are often asked to build a search engine friendly website in a few hours or even a few days. So, we put together the "circle of life" of a website. With the help of Joomla Developers website production values. Be aware therefore, that if you want a website that works, this process will help you. Skip any one of them and you are asking for trouble!
Welcome to Marketing Collateral We have built our new website - which is great news. Utilising the power of Joomla! Our site now features the very latest in Module and Component layout and gives you an opportunity to see what we do at a glance. We have decided to showcase our clients within a "Wrapper" this means that we display their site as a whole within our site. Making it easier for us to publish our portfolio and easier for you to see it. 
Content Management to die for!  Have we got some treats in store for you? We can now build any website using the latest templates and all for around £2,000 for the basic version featuring all you see on this site.
Third Party Extensions Support Popular community applications are supported by our templates, from custom overrides, graphics and styling.

JomSocial, the community component; K2, the advanced content application; Community Builder, are supported by the templates we use. So, if you want to start your own Facebook, community blog or simply have a website that you will be proud of, call us in now.

Sortable Elements

Sortable / Draggable Elements: provides the ability to interact with the template layout, from moving modules vertically in their positions to entire blocks / rows both horizontally and vertically.

This is great fun as you can move the positions of our modules to exactly where they suit you - with some restrictions of course...

3rd Party Extensions

Third Party Extension Support: refers to the inclusion of specific styling and overrides for several powerful applications which are JomSocial, Community Builder, K2 and various E-commerce applications...

What more could you ask for....?

Style Variations

You may want your users to view your website in several different styles, this can be done easily and effectively using one of our great template progams.

Marketing Collateral have been utilising the Joomla framework for 3 years now. We grew up using standard web protocols like PHP, HTML and ASP.

Open source has always been a favourite of ours and not just because it is essentially free - its because there are thousands of developers out there, improving, enhancing and making new, innovative systems to work with all open source architecture not just Joomla.

With our skill set of design, coding, marketing and search engine optimisation working as one with the  Joomla system, we build websites that work -its as simple as that. Call us in to see what we can do for you - we know it will be worth your while.

In the meantime, take a look around our site to see what can be achieved for a fraction of what a fully interactive website used to cost - we help you to maintain your site and keep the search engines interested in your business, we can help you build databases directly from your site which will help you when deciding on what to say to whom and when in your email marketing, printed marketing material and even in your sales propositions.

Marketing Collateral is the generic term for all things marketing and that includes you, your employees and your customers.

 

 

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Source Ordered Layout
Affinity continues the latest trend of SEO optimised templates. The layout of the template has been constructed differently to the norm. A typical Joomla template, in regards to the mainbody source, will load the left column first, then the right column and finally the main column (where your main articles are loaded). Affinity takes a different approach and loads the main column code before the left and right columns.

Therefore, this template loads in this order: Header, Menu, Showcase, Main Column, Left Column, Right Column, Bottom, Footer. This is perfect for SEO purposes as the search crawlers will find your main content before your subsidiary content in your side columns. This is a major step forward and will improve your search engine results for your pages.
RocketTheme Extensions Integration
As well as the support / integration of the third party components, JomSocial, Community Builder and K2, we also style for our own extensions. There is specific styling for RokAjaxSearch, RokStories, RokTabs and RokTwittie. Other extensions are present such as RokCandy, RokBridge and RokNavMenu, but they are not visual extensions as they are purely functionality.

With a Joomla template based website, you can rely on the search engines to find you, enable your staff to update content on the fly and really keep your webstie in the forefront of the people that matter the most to you. A Joomla Conent Management system is as easy to use as a Notepad - its simple cost effective and easy to manage.

 

K2
K2 is a content construction component (similar to CCK for those acquainted with Drupal), which lets you create custom content types (items) for your Joomla! website. With K2, you can transform your Joomla! website to a news site with author blogs, product catalogs, work portfolio, knowledge base, download/document manager, directory listing, event listing and more, all this bundled under one component. Again, Affinity has styled support for this component to visually integrate the powerful component from JoomlaWorks.gr.
Javascript Styling: Radios and Checkboxes
One of the many new features in the template is the inclusion of JavaScript powered styling for radio icons and checkboxes, such as the ones used on the Polls and the Search pages. Traditionally, styling of these form elements is bland, default and ordinary. However, using special scripts, these elements can be manipulated as to allow styling as is present on the many demo pages. The template styled itself changers depending on body type chosen as well as the type of module class suffix in use. Yet another diverse and additional feature in the May template release.
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