Welcome to the NEW West of East, Incorporated website!

Well, months of planning, nervous nights and a dozen Google searches, we are finally here at our new host, HostGator.com.  We're now registered as an authorzied reseller and have added web hosting to our list of services.  Of course, after doing Joomla websites for so many clients, we just had to hove one of our own.  Some people in the industry refer to this as "Eating your own dog food", but a friend in the sales management game points out, "But who wants to eat dog food?"

Rightly so; and we think the Joomla Content Management System is more like Filet Mignon, anyway!   So in an upcmoing article we'll talk about "cooking our own steak", making the transition from an old style HTML site to a CMS.

More about that once some of the dust has settled - so pardon our appearance while do a bit more behind the scenes work, and start a new project for an exciting new client who is part of local history!

The Challenge: Create a standout website for a local general contracting firm that did not have a prior web presence, make it easy to maintain and present the contractor's work in an easily updated portfolio.

The Solution: A Joomla CMS based website with a custom designed template and a versatile form based gallery to show off the design and implementation work.

The results: Lombardi went from no web presence to the top three results in Google, Yahoo and Bing. (Beating out a similarly named home builder who has been on the web for the last decade!)

Check out the site for yourself here!

Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular Web site software available. Best of all, Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone.