Maintaining a joomla website - Canberra
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This document discusses best practices for maintaining a Joomla website on an ongoing basis. It addresses common challenges clients and developers face, such as clients not seeing the value in maintenance or developers not having enough time. It provides recommendations on how much to charge for maintenance, key tasks to perform like backups, software updates, and monitoring. The document stresses the importance of maintenance for security and performance, and provides suggestions for tools that can help automate tasks and demonstrate value to the client.
Maintaining a joomla website - Canberra
- 1. Maintaining a Joomla Website Canberra Joomla User Group Presented by Tim Plummer
- 2. âą Client doesnât see value in ongoing maintenance âą I donât have time to maintain the site âą How much should I charge? âą What regular tasks should I do? Maintenance challenges you may face
- 3. What if you donât maintain a site? Site becomes vulnerable Site gets hacked Angry customer Joomla gets bad reputation
- 4. Educate them as to why website needs to be maintained âą Keep website operating in peak condition âą Patch security vulnerabilities âą Disaster recovery Client doesnât see value Would you buy a car and never service it?
- 5. âą There are tools available that can help automate some of the maintenance tasks and save you time âą Charge enough to make it worth your while âą Consider leveraging cheaper offshore resources I donât have time
- 6. Different ways to price âą Include maintenance in project cost âą Annual maintenance percentage (eg. 10% of project cost) âą Fixed monthly rate How much should I charge?
- 7. âą Daily offsite backup âą Disaster recovery plan âą Software updates (core & third party extensions) âą Website monitoring âą Support What maintenance tasks should I do?
- 8. âą PPC (Pay Per Click) advertising âą Content marketing / strategy âą Social media campaigns What should I exclude?
- 9. âą Akeeba Backup professional âą Amazon S3 âą Daily/weekly cron to trigger backup Daily offsite backups TEST YOUR BACKUP Untested = no backup
- 10. âą In the event of something going wrong, have a plan to restore backup and recover site Disaster recovery
- 11. âą Keep Joomla core version up-to-date âą Keep extension versions up-to-date Software updates
- 12. âą Do you bundle subscriptions in maintenance cost? â Client doesnât need to worry about ongoing subscription costs for extensions used â Depending on licence, you may be able to use for other clients at no extra cost Software subscriptions
- 13. âą Apply the latest best practice recommendations âą Can use tools to check basic settings Site audits
- 14. âą Support to help client maintain content â some developers include up to 30mins per month in their maintenance fee Support
- 15. âą Monitor when core files changed âą Is there an update available for an extension? âą Uptime/downtime Website monitoring
- 16. âą Most of these items, the client doesnât have visibility of, so they may not feel they are getting value for money. âą Monthly report showing what you have done/improved â Extensions updated â Average backup size â Other minor improvements Does client see value?
- 17. âą Each month, focus on one small change to make all your client sites better â SEO improvement âą update meta data âą Add a sitemap âą Update robots.txt â Security audit âą Update/improve .htaccess What else can you do to add value?
- 18. âą Watchful.li â Get notified when core files changed â Get notified of extension updates â Single interface to update multiple sites â Site audit âą Myjoomla.com â Security audit âą BF SEO â Improve organic SEO Tools to make this easier
- 19. Questions?