When it comes to keeping your website in top-notch condition, regular maintenance and updates are not just a good idea—they're essential.
Maintaining your website does several things: it keeps your site secure, ensures everything runs smoothly, and allows you to take advantage of new features and improvements as they become available.
One of the most critical aspects of website maintenance is security.
In our case, we primarily use Joomla as the foundation for our websites.
Joomla, like any other software, requires regular updates to ensure that it's secure from potential threats.
Within Joomla, there are various components, modules, and plugins—think of these as the building blocks that give your website its functionality.
These are continually being updated by their developers, and it's our job to ensure that your website is always running the latest, most secure versions.
This not only protects your website but also keeps our servers safe from any vulnerabilities that could be exploited.
Beyond security, keeping your website up to date also means that you're always taking advantage of the latest features and functionality.
We don't just hit the update button and walk away; we often test new features and implement them on our clients' sites to enhance their online presence.
For example, we have some standard pieces of software we use across all our sites:
- Automated Sitemap System: This ensures that Google knows exactly what pages are on your site, when they were last updated, and their importance in the overall architecture of the site.
- SEO Add-On: This tool makes it easier for us to ensure that each page has well-crafted meta descriptions and titles, which are crucial for your site's visibility on search engines.
- Speed Enhancement System: Site speed is vital, not just for user experience but also because it’s an important ranking factor for Google. We use a system that optimises your site for faster loading times.
- Cookie Policy and Consent Mode: With increasing regulations around privacy, it's more important than ever to have a robust cookie policy and consent system in place. Our solution is adaptable, ensuring that your site is compliant while also allowing you to continue gathering important analytics data.
In addition to these, we frequently add gallery systems, payment forms, clever pop-ups or slide-ins for promotional work, and even bespoke functionality like our custom tools.
But all of these elements need to be kept up to date to ensure they continue to function correctly and securely.
That’s where we come in—we handle all these updates for you, so you don’t have to worry about a thing.
Regular website maintenance and updates are not just about fixing problems; they’re about preventing them from happening in the first place, improving the performance of your website, and keeping everything running as smoothly as possible.
It's all part of our commitment to providing you with a website that’s not only effective and user-friendly but also secure and reliable.
