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Services Offered

Services

We offer a wide range of affordable servicesi including hardware and software installation and repair, virus removal, networking, web design, Joomla and ecommerce consulting. We have over 20 years of computer consulting experience.

Our clients include small and medium sized businesses, home based businesses, individuals
and non profit organizations.

We provide extended support by enabling remote access for our clients. When you have an issue, you can allow us to connect remotely to diagnose and fix the problem.

We offer affordable, reasonable rates.

Networking Services

Networking

We can install network wiring for your home, home office or small business. We can also test your existing wiring for proper termination.

Our services include:

Physical wiring
Installation of drops
Adding equipment without additional drops by means of local workgroup switches
Configuring your existing and new equipment to work properly and effectively on your network.
Troubleshooting wiring issues
Backup power supplies

Disaster Prevention

Computer Support

Our experience has shown that most home, home office and small business users do not have an adequate disaster prevention plan. A hard drive failure can result in the loss of valuable business data. With photography and video moving to digital, we have seen people lose years of memories because they did not have their pictures and video backed up.

Hard Drive Failure Recovery

Computer Support

We work with our clients to establish a backup practice to protect them against data loss from hard drive failures. The techniques we use include regular backups, redundant hard disks and regular checkups and maintenance.

Hardware Repairs and Upgrades

Computer Support

We can help you when:

You want to upgrade your system
You have a virus or trojan
Your machine will not boot
You have lost data
You cannot connect to the Internet
You want to install new hardware or software

We offer a full range of hardware repairs, installation and upgrades including:

Power supplies
Motherboards
Hard Drives
Memory
Expansion Cards
Monitors
Printers
Laptop Repairs

Operating systems supported include all versions of Windows include:

98
2000 including Server 2000
XP
Vista
Windows 8

As a general rule, it is usually more cost efficient in the long term to replace systems that are over three years old. If a system has been subjected to an electrical surge, it is likely that additional components will fail.

Software Installation and support

Computer Support

If you need software installed, we can help. Our services include:

Installation and configuration of your software.
Migration of data from your old software.

Hardware Installation

Computer Support

We can install hardware and software for small business, home offices and homes. Typical services include:

Hardware

Physical installation of hardware including servers, workstations, laptops, printers, PDAs, Smartphones, networking hardware and more
Initial configuration for your network
Initial security setup including all patches and antivirus
Activation of bundled software
Migration of data and applications from your old machines
Installation of uninterruptable power supplies and/or surge protectors

Joomla CMS

Web Design

Joomla is a Content Management System. Using it as a basis for your website empowers you as the website owner in that you can add and edit content. We provide a full range of Joomla related services including:

Determining if a Joomla based site is the best solution.
Securing hosting for your site
Determining the overall layout of the site
Creating a custom template
Migrating your existing site to your new Joomla based site
Training your users in adding, modifying and deleting content
Performing higher level functions such as menu changes
Performing periodic maintenance and upgrades as required.

As part of our standard installations, we enhance the standard Joomla installation with:

Joomalpak to allow the creation of backups. The standard Joomla Install does not provide the ability to back up your site from the control panel.
Fabrik for form creation. Fabrik allows the capture of user input to a database as well as email.
For Joomla 1.5 installs, we will install the free SEO patch (search engine optimization) This patch, available from Joomlaatwork, allows greater control over the Title, Description and Keyword metatags which is crucial to getting the best possible visibility for your site in the search engine rankings.

This site, www.cgmsystems.com was developed and is maintained using Joomla.