Web Development and Website Design

SiteBento takes into account your business goals and objectives, marketing strategy, existing mail/communication infrastructure, domain name registration and management, and personality when initiating a web project.   The web development world is complex, we provide simple, yet sophisticated, managed website services at very affordable prices.  Our team holds advanced business degrees, has intimate knowledge of information technology in business environments, extensive web experience, and a great web product (SiteBento) powered by Joomla! content management system. 

Investing in SiteBento solutions means an affordable, feature packed, personalised web presence and reasonable annual renewals.  Apart from contributing your content, ideas, and feedback, we handle everything else.  The result are scalable solutions that add value to your business.

SiteBento uses a Website-As-A-Service model, similar to Software-As-Service (SaaS), to integrate your content, needs, and ideas into our customized platform.  We create your account, personalize our platform to your needs, and host it within our US based IX data center.     

Service Level

SiteBento is a comprehensive - people driven - solution to building and deploying  websites.  This means that we take care of all the necessary steps to plan, build, and launch a website for your business.   We take into account your e-mail, remote office access, business practices, and technology to form a solution that will add value to your business and minimize - or even eliminate - disruptions.   SiteBento is different - from other web design companies - because of extensive IT infrastructure knowledge, custom web development platform, and prove search engine optimization track record. 

• Proper planning of all components that might be affected by the web development project.
• Market/Competative Analysis.
• Domain name registration, management, and record pointing.
• E-Mail services record configuration (POP3, GoogleApps for Business, Exchange Server, and Anti-Spam filtration systems).
• Website Design, Development, and Consulting.
• Search Engine Optimization and Marketing
• Website solution hosting.
• Patches, upgrades, and security fixes. 
• Ongoing Maintenance and Support.

Core Website Features

SiteBento's core is an efficient, highly customizable, and technologically advanced framework.  Our role is that of a systems integrator: we take components/modules/plugins - together referred to as extensions - and integrate them into our core solution. 

When asked to explain the core framework and extensions, our best analogy is: "SiteBento's Joomla Core is like the operating system (Windows or Mac OS) on your computer.   It is already built, but requires some personalization.   We make the necessary adjustments. From there, we integrate the necessary tools - synonymous with the programs on your computer - to do various tasks." 

• Content Management
• User Management
• Media Manager
• Banner Management
• Contact Management
• Search
• Weblinks
• Syndication and Newsfeed Management
• Menu Management
• Template Management
• Web Services

Common Extensions

As integrators, your site will likely feature some specialized extensions. They can be basic form components for collecting data to sophisticated inventory and e-commerce systems.  Here are examples of extension categories that our current customers are using now (you can see the sites in our Portfolio):

• Contact forms, information collection, and e-mail.
• Search Engine Optimizing programs.
• SiteBento proprietary management platform.
• SiteBento template management extension.
• Real Estate Property management.
• YouTube Video Feeds
• RSS Aggregators and Publishers
• Picasa Integration
• Flickr Integration
• Community components
• Event Publishing and paid Registration
• Digital Media Sales
• Google Calendar Integration
• Mobile Friendly website control

Search Engine Optimized

From a technical standpoint, SiteBento websites are extremely SEO friendly.  However, search engine optimization is a complex strategy that is one-third technical; the remainder depends on content and popularity.  We have numerous technological pieces that help rank many of our sites in top-10 for desired keywords.

• Built-in CSS and JS compression and combination
• Optimized codebase with speed, size, and reuse core tenets of the framework design
• Automatic per-browser-level CSS and JS control
• W3C XHTML 1.0 / CSS 3 Valid
• Table-less HTML overrides with content overrides based on excellent GNU/GPLv2 overrides
• Search Engine Optimizing custom extensions.
• META-data maintenance. 
• Content aggregation

Frequently Asked Questions

• Are SiteBento Websites Search Engine Optimized?
  From a technical standpoint, SiteBento websites are extremely SEO friendly. However, search engine optimization is a complex strategy that is one-third technical; the remainder depends on content and popularity. We have numerous technological pieces that help rank many of our sites in top-10 for desired keywords.
• Is E-mail included in SiteBento Managed Website Services?
  We provide Google Apps for all of our clients as an option.   Google Apps for Business is available for $50 per user per year.  We also provide Google Apps for Business migration and management services.  However, you are free to use your own mail service (like Microsoft Exchange) and we will ensure that mailflow is never interrupted.
• Do you provide DNS Services?
  Yes!  Our DNS Servers are powered by Zerigo, an 8x8 company. 

a.ns.techbento.net – Denver, Colorado, USA
b.ns.techbento.net – Washington, DC, USA
c.ns.techbento.net – London, United Kingdom
d.ns.techbento.net – Dallas, Texas, USA
e.ns.techbento.net – Amsterdam, Netherlands
f.ns.techbento.net – Singapore

• What is website-as-a-service?
  SiteBento provides all the infrastructure to personalize and display a website for your company.  Our technical team maintains the all core components and can even provide you with content, or administrative, support. 
• How is SiteBento different from traditional web-design?
  Traditional web design uses custom HTML/Java/ColdFusion/PHP/ASP/etc code to develop a custom solution for your business.  You are then responsible for managing and maintaining it.  SiteBento's approach utilizes a content-management-system (Joomla!) to create a personalized website that represents your business. 
• Why choose SiteBento?
  SiteBento offers a differnt approach to website design, hosting, and maintenance.   We strive to give you feature rich websites and the technical expertise to run them.  Small companies can do big things at affordable rates.
• Who owns my content?
  You, and your business.  All of the content supplied by the customer belongs to the customer. For further details, please review our Terms of Service and your Personalization Agreement. Should you terminate your account (or the account is terminated for any reason), we will export all of your supplied content and make it available for download within 14-days of a written request. 
• Can I move the website to another hosting company?
  No, because we provide the website as a service to your busines, the site's framework is part of that service.