TradeShack75.com has a full service facility. We offer everything from web hosting & domains to fully made website templates (flash & html). And if you want something more custom designed, we develop Joomla websites from scratch. Joomla is an open source content management system (see this article). Basically, it is software that is installed on the server (your hosting account) for free, which allows you to create a database driven website, without any specialised coding knowledge. The real beauty of Joomla is the myriad of extensions that exist already, to see what is available, please click here .  Extensions add various kinds of functionality to your website, everything from calenders to online reservation systems, shopping carts, catalogues and much, much more! Any Joomla powered website will have the flexibility to evolve with you and/or your business. Please send us a mail outlining your requirements and we will send you a quote ASAP.

All TradeShack75.com designed websites are built with search engine optimisation in mind. We build websites that the search engines love.

Many people just want a basic website to start with, as a means of testing the waters. To instal Joomla, with a professional template of your choice (to get some idea of the templates that are available, google Joomla templates) and create the basic structure that you require will cost anything from R2500-00 (ex VAT) and up. The amount of 'up' would be determined by any added functionality that you might require. Please send us a mail outlining your requirements and we will send you a quote ASAP.

If you want to open your business to the internet i.e take orders and payments online, then we can help you too! To create a commercial website is not the complicated affair it used to be and YOU can administer your own shop too! We will gladly quote you to custom design your online shop. We will assist you with every aspect of creating a commercial site, from ensuring that your site conforms to the bank standards for online sites, to doing the payment integration with the payment gateway that you will be using. And for those who don't know what I just said, we can explain these things in plain English too! It is more difficult to estimate the cost of a commercial website because they vary quite extensively. The cost will largely be determined by your needs. The other factor that can affect your cost quite considerably, is how much you want to do. We like clients who want to be involved! If fact, we think the cleverest clients are the ones who get stuck right in and learn for themselves how to use Joomla. Anyone who is able to use a computer, can operate Joomla. In the past, a large part of a companies' online costs came from having to use a professional to do every website update. Joomla is changing all of that with it user friendly administration control panel. Without having to learn any specialised computer language, you will be able to administer your own site. With a little training and some practice, you could probably even build your own website. Please send us a mail outlining your requirements and we will send you a quote ASAP.

 TraShack75.com offers various Joomla training solutions.

If we build your website, we offer one-on-one training in the use and administration of your website. This will cost R1000.00 for the first five hours (pro-rata if you need less), and R300,00/hr thereafter. Plus travel expenses! Please note that we a Johannesburg based company and only offer this service in Johannesburg. We will teach you as much (or as little) as you need to know to run your own website.

We also offer one-on-one training for anyone who wants to build their own website. this will cost R300,00/hr and travel expenses. We will show you how to do everything or just the stuff you don't know. We will help you to install a template and customise it. We will show you how to add content in a manner that the search engines love. We will train you on installing added functionality on your website so that you can both grow in the future. This is the most cost effective way to get online. The reason is simple, you will not have to pay someone else to update or run your website in the future. This has always been a major cost with websites in the past, Joomla is changing all of that!

TradeShack75.com will also be offering group courses, in the very near future, on various internet and website topics. Most importantly, on ways to make money off the internet. Click here to find out more . We believe that the internet represents an enormous, untapped market, as far as South Africans are concerned. We want to help as many of our fellow countrymen as possible, to make money off the internet. It is only by sharing our knowledge that we begin to build an online community.