Black Hills Web Works is a website design, development and managed hosting company in Spearfish, South Dakota, specializing in Joomla and WordPress Content Management Systems

A Heart for Justice

Our latest website project, 'A Heart for Justice' is a website dedicated to spreading awareness about modern-day slavery and human trafficking. It features image-links to books and websites, resources for individuals and churches to fight slavery and trafficking, information for reporting slavery, and a blog that is regularly updated by the website's owner.

Legends and Legacies

The front page for Legends and Legacies features three slideshows that randomly display photos of their products, a photo of their storefront, a description of their products, and a 'quick-reference footer' with their contact information readily available.

True Life Church front page

The home page for True Life Church features a slideshow, a Daily Verse feed from ESV, and even a Microblog in the form of Twitter updates from the pastor.

Directions

Businesses and nonprofit organizations alike need to tell people how to find them, and embedding Google Maps into a website is an effective way to meet that need.

More than a picture: embedding a map allows it to be a functional and fully interactive feature of a website.

Calendar

By implementing Google Apps into their organization and their website, True Life Church is able to embed a Google Calendar as one way to communicate their regular meeting times and special events.

Sermon Audio

An embedded audio player from www.sermon.net allows True Life Church to broadcast their sermons and messages to anywhere in the world via the internet.

About Us

Living Rock Church uses the About Us section of their website to communicate what they believe, what their mission is, what their values are, what their vision is, and how they make it all happen through their Intentional Discipleship Process.

Sundberg Builders front page

The home page for Sundberg Builders, Inc. uses a configurable slideshow component to showcase various projects like this one-of-a-kind custom garage.

Project Gallery

The Project Gallery uses an image gallery, or lightbox, to dynamically display multiple pictures from a selection of Sundberg Builders' past projects.

Project Gallery close-up

Clicking on one of the photos in the Project Gallery darkens the screen and brings up a larger photo as part of an interactive slideshow. The Project Gallery is configurable in Joomla's backend for a variety of display options.

Complete Website Solutions

Founded in 2009, Black Hills Web Works is a website design, development and managed website hosting company located in Spearfish, South Dakota. Our mission is to provide complete website solutions for businesses, nonprofit organizations, and individuals.

Our websites are primarily built using Joomla!, an open-source Content Management System (CMS) software. One powerful advantage to using Joomla! CMS is that once a website is built and deployed to the World Wide Web its content (text, pictures, etc.) can be modified by the owner of the website or other registered users.

In plain language this means that someone with limited technical skills can make regular updates to the content on their own website without fear of altering or "messing up" the design of the website itself. The end result is a simple, cost-effective solution to a dynamic presence on the Web.

The Joomla! CMS can be used to power many different types of websites, including blogs and personal homepages, nonprofit and organizational websites, small business websites, and e-commerce websites.

Perhaps you already have an existing static website that you would like to convert to an updated, dynamic website built with a user-friendly Content Management System. Tell us about it on our Contact Us page and include a link to your existing website and we'll be in touch with you shortly.

While one of our websites could be hosted with almost any web host provider, an integral part of a complete website solution is managed hosting, which we provide and you can read more about on this page.

The latest from the Black Hills Web Works blog

A gnat’s toot in a hurricane
If nothing else, this strip shows the importance of business systems and the challenge of keeping things, such as vendor contracts, organized and current. Beyond that, I thought it was pretty funny.
Managing your WordPress post revisions
If you’re using a self-hosted version of WordPress you may have noticed that WordPress is keeping copies of every post revision you make. While this can be helpful in rolling a post back to an earlier version, the number of revisions can quickly get out of hand. These revisions are stored in your database, and [...]
Essential Joomla extensions for any Joomla website
After you’ve built one or more Joomla websites you will start to realize that there are a handful of Joomla extensions that, in your opinion, should have been included with the standard Joomla package. As it is, you’ll need to assemble your personal collection of tools and add them to your website. Everybody has their [...]
Creating a custom Joomla 404 error page
Let’s face it: the default Joomla 404 error page, while useful and perhaps necessary, is one of the uglier web pages in existence. The shock value of seeing one of these pages for the first time is memorable, and diminishes only slowly over time. Creating a custom 404 error page for your Joomla website isn’t all [...]

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Twitter and Business

Many people have heard of Twitter, and many of those people are using Twitter, but what about businesses or NPOs (NonProfit Organizations)? Does it make sense? We think it does, but don't just take our word for it...

Twitter has put together a tutorial called Twitter 101 to help businesses start thinking about how Twitter can be an integral part in any business strategy. Also, the NY Times recently ran two articles on the subject: Marketing Small Businesses with Twitter and Twitter Takes a Step Toward Commercial Accounts.

Anyone else here?

Google Analytics

Can you imagine a world without Google? As a service to our clients we offer the implementation of Google Analytics into each website, along with detailed monthly reports of the collected data sent directly to the client via email in PDF format.

To see a real example of a report in PDF format, click on the report image.

What is Joomla?

Most of our websites, including this one, are powered by Joomla. But what is Joomla?

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.