We at WebsGold understand one thing -- Planning!  If you plan out your website from the very beginning for future growth and expansion, when the time comes, such expansion can be done with minimal effort and expense.  It is best to have the components installed from the beginning then add them later.

From our experience with websites running Joomla! CMS, with proper communication and planning we can recommend the proper installation in the beginning.  So let's take the time to plan from the beginning.

Let us start with the back end core features and components. We see a majority of problems come into play, when a site tries to expand later additional core components such as photo galleries or video delivery. Will your site have special registration, community and/or subscription requirements?

The problems do not come in that the additional components being installed, but in the integration of the components between each other as well as the permission/subscription/membership system integrations.  It is advisable if your site will be using such content now or in the future, to install the components from the very beginning.

We all know how important Search Engines play in traffic to our sites.  Why not set up your site from the beginning to be Search Engine Friendly.  This will help in your ranking and eliminate the major problems that you can run into with Joomla! and SEO, as in duplicate content problems, unfriendly URLs, and the real disaster -- the same title and meta tags on each page.  Optimize each content page for the search engines from the beginning, it pay off in the long run.

Do you think Joomla! and/or other user management alone will suffice.  Think again and think hard.  With a great subscription management component (AEC) that can handle both free and paid subscriptions, headaches can be eliminated.  Imagine trying to add subscription management at a later time.  Yes is it easy to do, but once you start restricting content based upon htaccess and group level, rebuilding and incorporating your user/password system can become tedious work.  Avoid the bottleneck now by installing the appropriate system and enabling the proper protection from the beginning. WebsGold is the contract support for AEC .

There are many more issues that come into play, such as blogging tools, administration tools, and permission and group levels.  We advise you to addresses the possibilities of these needs from the beginning and do the proper planning with a professional design/installation team, like WebsGold.