Website Features

SPF's passion is all about adding useful website features for greater impact like:

• Blog (community, customer relationship management)
• Calendar (community, events)
• Login (membership, exclusivity)
• Moodle (learning management system)
• Newsletters (contacts, current promotions)
• Photo Gallery (community, engagement)
• Poll (data collection, feedback, customisation)
• Shopping Cart (income, return business)
• Social Media (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube)
• Video Presentation (self hype, promotions)

Blogging is all about communities of interest. By building an active network of people who all share the same passion powerful synergies are built that transcend physical boundaries. Whatever your business or your occupation you should be blogging... reading and writing about what you know and love. While attracting business to your site is not what blogging is about, it is common knowledge that there's gold in them thar networks!

The event calendar we install as an extra becomes an integral part of your site, and you can use it many different ways to manage your own affairs or organise your user community. The specific calendar component we prefer makes strong use of CSS, so we can style it to blend visually with the look and feel of your site.

 Dollar for dollar, newsletters are one of the most effective ways to reach your market. As publicity experts have pointed out for years, newsletters let you communicate frequently with a highly specific audience, enhance your image and credibility and offer potential users, buyers or members a personalized contact. Logged in membership is a valuable marketing tool and gives clients exclusivity to additional information which can also mean vouchers and more sales.

Moodle is implemented on school websites as an online learning environment. Teachers and Tutors can share content with Students easily and effectively. Moodle works well with Mahara (an online portfolio system) and Wiki's (which can be incorporated into Moodle).

If you have just a few photos we bring them right into Joomla!, but if you have or plan to have a big collection we set up the popular and robust Coppermine Photo Gallery, matching the stylesheet to the look and feel of your main site.  Photos are handled two ways: (1) to support news articles and pages on your site, and (2) as standalone photo albums. There are too many photo galleries to choose from so we can suggest the solution that best suits your requirements

Owning a website is a two way thing. In fact a lot of companies own a website to find out about their customers, more than to promote their products and services! You'll learn heaps about your customers and what they think about you, your product and your services from your blog. A poll let's you ask them what they think in a more direct way. Do you want more free beer? (a) Too Right (b) Got enough thanks (c) No Way!

Shopping online was a big leap of faith ten years ago, nowadays everybody does it. Research shows it's the only way some people shop! Especially men! Whatever your product or service is you can be selling it direct online. It's an easy ramp in these days, and if you start off with PayPal you won't even need a merchant account.

SPF Multimedia launched into online retail with Boystown back in 2005.  Now they're asked for carts all the time! Designed and built to be lean and mean, Boystown set the trend for SPF's carts which are quick to set up, easy to use, and dressed to match the style of the real-world business they support."We found our clients wanted something quick, easy and colourful," says designer Robyn von Pein. "They're not Amazon, they're small traders who sell direct to the public, and everybody needs it to be easy." One problem small businesses face is the overhead of a merchant account, but things are getting easier all the time. SPF recommends PayPal as it is just the easiest way to get started. You can be taking money over the counter of your virtual shop the same day you asked us to set it up. Call us and we can work out the best banking solution for your shopping cart.

Have you thought of incorporating Social Media into your business, but that’s as far as you’ve got? Well we help sort a business solution to get set up in the social media environment.  Creating a strategy going forward that will work best for your brand, set up the necessary profiles and can even have them managed for your online campaign on a day to day basis. We are talking Facebook, Twitter and many more. Video on the web is really common now, with many people using YouTube for business and entertainment. The widespread use of ADSL and streaming media means that a 2MB video clip is perfectly practical  to download... now you can get a big message across in a 2MB clip! Get started now by getting SPF to creating videos for your YouTube account on the web.

Visual impact is huge! Being able to say what you really mean or product demonstations on video in quality resolution can be a deal breaker. Ideally on the front page of your website a promotional video is proven to give the viewer a sense of trust and hense more likely to subscribe or purchase on your website. There are too many options to explore so contact us now to view demos and discuss what professional video we can produce to enhance your business. 

So come in and see us as we are open all week 9am - 5.30pm