We are proud to have setup a new website for a local professional bike fitting service in Saundersfoot,Wales: Rothery Bike Fit.

Co-Founders John Rothery and David Francis wanted to create a business that really serves what local athletes need, and one which is backed up by science and know how of the world's top cyclists.

John, who holds multiple Masters degrees in sports science related subjects and Dave, who is a local triathlete who has competed at national and international level including the World Ironman championships in Kona, Hawaii, envisioned a service they could provide to the ever growing number of triathletes in this region of Wales, which is fast becoming a world renowned region for triathletes from all over the world to compete at top level in the like of the Long Course Weekend and Iron Man Wales events.

John and Dave wanted to provide a bike fitting service that was backed up by experts who have all attended accredited training and the website was to play a key role in letting people know exactly what they do and capturing new leads as efficiently as possible.

In addition they needed a website that was easy for them to update without the need to rely on an external IT company, which would slow things down and increase costs.

Zoho Sites provided the perfect solution for this as it allows them to make content updates, add images, blogs and even videos.

And the best part is: Zoho Sites requires absolutely no technical/IT knowledge, leaving the guys more time to do what they're best at!

And of course there is scope now to integrate their new website with a customer relationship management (CRM) and accounting solution and more using any one or a combination of Zoho's suite of online business tools.

We wish the lads all the best in their new venture.

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There are many ways to arrange your content on business websites, from menus and submenus, breadcrumbs, columns, and also tabs.

Zoho Sites has functions that cover all of these and it has never been easier to use, simply drag and drop the 'element' into the page you are working on and you're done!

Tabs

The option to add Tabs of content is a fairly new addition to the Zoho Sites function suite and is one that might suit pages that need to contain a lot of information, without forcing the reader to scroll through reams and reams of text.

For example, product descriptions, that might contain a summary, then details of the dimensions, weights, other specs as well as performance criteria and so on.

To add Tabs to your content page in Zoho Sites is easy:

1. In edit mode, go to the Elements tab and locate the Tabs element.
   
2. Click and drag it to the content placeholder in the content page
   
3. Click Add Tab to add more tabs
   
4. Click Organise tabs to arrange them
   
5. Use the Edit Name function to edit the Tab names 
   

From there you simply drag and drop other elements such as Text or images and so on into the relevant tabs, depending on what you want to display inside each tab.

Here is a simple example of how you can segment your content yet save screen real estate by using the Zoho Sites Tabs function:

Affordable, No More Reliance on Website Developers

Zoho Sites is an easy to use and highly affordable website content management systems that is perfect for small businesses.

It allows you to take control of your website and rely less on 3rd party development companies. If you are tired of being locked into website maintenance contracts or having to pay to update content, or if you just want to get into basic  web design yourself, then Zoho Sites is for you!

No technical knowledge or coding experience is required and the best thing is it also integrates to Zoho CRM "web to lead" forms so easily, meaning you can design forms to capture your website visitors as potential sales prospects.

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We're pleased to announce we've just launched the live site of our first Welsh home run business, using Zoho Sites website content management software as their website management system.

Annie Robina's Glass Designs is a home run business based in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire. Annie runs courses in glass fusion design and stained glass design work, as well as taking commissions and repair work on glass artwork.

She needed a simple website to explain what she does and to display her work, but also to help people contact her and channel enquiries into a centralised location. 

Most of all, she needed it on a budget that was affordable for her home business!

Annie opted for our 'Zoho Sites Starter Package', which gave her the following for just 150 GBP:

• 15+ pages
  
• Content pages
  
• Photo gallery pages
  
• Advice on best practises for content writing
  
• Search Engine Optimisation on each page
  
• Live .co.uk domain implementation
  
• Zoho Sites implementation and training
  
• One month support
  

You can check Annie Robina's Glass Designs website out, here: http://annierobinaglassdesigns.co.uk/      

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Until a few years ago building websites required a lot of HTML & CSS page building and editing technical knowledge.

Jump forward to today and there are many excellent Website Content Management Systems (WCMS) to select from that make building and publishing websites much easier.

Note the term “much easier”.

Whilst WCMS suppliers push hard that no technical expertise is required and that it is so easy to develop, or redevelop, your own company website, do you, as a small business owner, really have the time, inclination, and the design skills, to do so?

At Mangoho, the official Zoho partner for Wales, we think that your time would be better spent developing new customers and increasing the loyalty of your existing ones, and leave the development of your website to us.

Our way of thinking is that with our technical and design knowledge we can quickly, and cost effectively, develop your website more quickly and probably at a lesser cost, than you.

After your site has gone live we can then support your website, or if you want, we can provide you with a minimal amount of Zoho Sites development training so that you can maintain the site for yourself.

So exactly what is a WCMS?

A website content management system is an application manages all your website content. For example it handles all your text, images, music, video, and documents and much more.

Additionally Zoho Sites is delivered using the Cloud there is no development tool to install or maintain, and, importantly Zoho Sites is a complete website “platform” as your website is also hosted by Zoho Corp.

And, importantly, Zoho Sites has a Free edition and recently many more features were added to the Zoho Sites Free version.

Consider the following features and compare them to what other WCMS suppliers are providing:

100% ad-free website, domain hosting, unlimited pages, unlimited galleries, unlimited slideshows, blog, scheduled blog post, themes gallery, mobile site, comment box, highlight box, 10 forms, 10 dynamic content, unlimited storage, unlimited bandwidth, banner slideshow, favicon, custom themes, code snippet, flash banner, page specific sidebar, page specific banner, Google search box, customizable sidebar, customizable footer, customizable 404, 301 redirect, header & footer code, hidden pages, audio player and a full HTML/CSS editor.

We believe that most WCMS providers will not be able to match these features in their free versions.

You can select from an exceptionally extensive collection of website themes, which we can also edit, which means that your takes on a very personal look and feel for your company.

The website themes are divided into the following categories: 

Art / Photography, Beauty, Business, Construction, Education, Fashion, Finance, Flowers, Furniture, Gift Shop, Health / Fitness, Hosting, Hotel, Interior, Mobile, Non Profit, Portfolio, Real Estate, Restaurant, Services, Sports, Travel, Vacation, and Wedding.

Vitally, given the massive growth in the use of smart devices, Zoho Sites developed websites are mobile-ready and are automatically optimized to look superb on mobile devices, without the need for two URLs.

Zoho Sites also supports features that helps that your website obtain a better position within search engine results.

And built directly into Zoho Sites is a visitor analysis which provides access to Google Webmaster tools so that you can review the search friendliness of your website and also daily, weekly, and yearly number of visitors to your website. 

At Mangoho we have a vast amount of experience of the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques that are used to make sure your website achieves advantageous positions within search engine results. 

And we also have extensive knowledge of Google Analytics which produces comprehensive statistics about your website's traffic and sources and can also measures website “conversions”.

Our knowledge of SEO and Google Webmaster tools and Google Analytics are further reasons to have your new website developed by Mangoho using the Zoho Sites WCMS. 

Zoho Sites Testimonial  

We recently received the following testimonial from Protostar Leadership Development, a leading HR and leadership management company in the UK. 

"Protostar Leadership Development Ltd is a UK based management consultancy that has been in operation since 2007. During this time, we have developed our business purely through word of mouth and now we wish to expand and be more proactive in attracting new business. 

To that end we needed a new website, something more than outlook contacts for tracking leads and the ability to administer email campaigns. 

Zoho appeared to offer the best integrated solution and Mangoho were ideal partners in advising, designing and setting up, Zoho Sites and incorporating various online forms that feed into Zoho CRM. Zoho Campaigns will also feed in directly, giving us far more control and visibility over our pipeline. 

We were initially worried that the leap from using a basic contact database to a CRM would be too much however Mangoho were able to advise us on what features to use initially and through their support package they will continue to advise and train as we get more confident and want to use more features.

They are also providing ongoing support for our website thereby freeing us up to deliver to our clients. 

We have found Mangoho to be very cost effective providers, responsive and flexible with no “hidden surprises” regarding cost. They have also been very patient with us as this has been a very new challenge for us."

Perhaps you are considering a new Internet presence?  Perhaps a new website or portal for your SMB, not for profit organization, or your community, school, or church activities?

Mangoho can develop it using Zoho Sites’ professionally created custom themes.

Contact us now by email at info at mangoho dot com or contacting Mangoho here to discover how Zoho Sites can power your new Internet presence. 

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Zoho have just released a new "blog summary" feature in Zoho Sites, the online website CMS (content management system) and cloud hosting solution.

From what we see you are now able to set whether you want to have the blog summary on or off in Blog Settings section.

You can set how many summary posts to display per page using the 'Post per page' function.

A common request for Zoho Sites has been the ability to add SEO settings for individual blog posts but at this stage it looks like there is no function to do this but we will keep you informed, hopefully Zoho will continue to develop this module of their website content management solution.

Zoho Sites is an online (cloud) based CMS, or Content Management System for websites. Zoho's latest online business tool is possibly the easiest CMS we have come across and maybe the easiest on the market!

It comes with a selection of approximately 20+ templates and we're told this will be grown in the future. It has an easy to read interface and intuitive drag and drop functions. Zoho Sites allows you to create an attractive personal or business related websites in literally minutes.

We thoroughly recommend this tool for individuals or businesses looking to create simple, affordable websites that look good and perform well and that are easy to maintain.

The average small-medium business needs to factor in costs of course, so the best part is that Zoho Sites is just 39USD per year.  Yes, host your website for about 20 quid a year!

Zoho have released a couple of videos showing how to use Zoho Sites, check this one out below to see just how easy it is!

Please contact us for further details or to have your website up and running in a few days.