BUSINESS GRANT SUPPORT
Some of the Welsh Government’s money is made available by way of grants to fund schemes and initiatives that deliver the Welsh Government’s priorities.

We can tailor advice to your needs, helping to develop a funding package enabling you to start up, expand, modernise, restructure, or to develop new products or processes.

We have details of the following:

  • discretionary grants for capital investments
  • a scheme to help create new products or processes
  • a capital investment grant for tourism businesses
  • implementation grants to launch or expand firms supplying environmental goods and services
  • a capital grant to build new premises or extend existing property
  • a capital grant to help refurbish, extend or fit-out  existing or new premises.

Strong, innovative and competitive businesses are essential for the economy of Wales.

How can the grant help my business?
  • Business Mentoring
  • Market Research and Planning
  • Business Planning
  • Specialist Projects
  • Employment Mentoring

Am I eligible?
Assisted Areas are the most economically disadvantaged areas where regional aid for economic development may be granted under European Community Law. The scheme is discretionary and the grants in Wales if offered will relate to individual circumstances, including the location of the project and will always be the minimum amount needed for the project to proceed.

Business Planning
A business plan is essential for your enterprise. For your business expansion, the business plan is the roadmap for this future development. It is a key document when you are looking for business funding in Wales - whether applying for a simple overdraft or looking for new investment or capital.

The business plan helps potential funders understand your vision and goals for the business, how you are going to spend the invested or borrowed money, and how this will benefit the business and potential funding providers in Wales. It is the first source of information that most providers of funding or grants in Wales see about a company and is crucial in getting their attention and interest.

Market Planning
As a Marketing Plan is a key part of your business success, it forms a major part of the Business Plan. You need to decide which customers to target. You need to work out how you will reach and win new customers. You need to make sure that you keep existing customers happy. And you need to keep reviewing and improving everything you do to stay ahead of the competition.

To find out if you are eligible Contact Design Four.

BUSINESS GRANT SUPPORT
Some of the Welsh Government’s money is made available by way of grants to fund schemes and initiatives that deliver the Welsh Government’s priorities.

We can tailor advice to your needs, helping to develop a funding package enabling you to start up, expand, modernise, restructure, or to develop new products or processes.

We have details of the following:

  • discretionary grants for capital investments
  • a scheme to help create new products or processes
  • a capital investment grant for tourism businesses
  • implementation grants to launch or expand firms supplying environmental goods and services
  • a capital grant to build new premises or extend existing property
  • a capital grant to help refurbish, extend or fit-out  existing or new premises.

Strong, innovative and competitive businesses are essential for the economy of Wales.

How can the grant help my business?
  • Business Mentoring
  • Market Research and Planning
  • Business Planning
  • Specialist Projects
  • Employment Mentoring

Am I eligible?
Assisted Areas are the most economically disadvantaged areas where regional aid for economic development may be granted under European Community Law. The scheme is discretionary and the grants in Wales if offered will relate to individual circumstances, including the location of the project and will always be the minimum amount needed for the project to proceed.

Business Planning
A business plan is essential for your enterprise. For your business expansion, the business plan is the roadmap for this future development. It is a key document when you are looking for business funding in Wales - whether applying for a simple overdraft or looking for new investment or capital.

The business plan helps potential funders understand your vision and goals for the business, how you are going to spend the invested or borrowed money, and how this will benefit the business and potential funding providers in Wales. It is the first source of information that most providers of funding or grants in Wales see about a company and is crucial in getting their attention and interest.

Market Planning
As a Marketing Plan is a key part of your business success, it forms a major part of the Business Plan. You need to decide which customers to target. You need to work out how you will reach and win new customers. You need to make sure that you keep existing customers happy. And you need to keep reviewing and improving everything you do to stay ahead of the competition.

To find out if you are eligible Contact Design Four.

Joomla technical requirement

Phew! Where do we start? Joomla is a Content Management System (CMS) that is built on the PHP programming language. It is used to design and develop dynamic (interactive and changing, based on user needs and requests) websites. It uses MySQL as a database to store the site users, articles and other information needed and used by the website. If you would like to learn more about the Joomla operating system then we would recommend you follow the popular forums. Click here for the minimum technical requirement to run Joomla. Click here for the Joomla forum. Design Four online training programme will concentrate on Joomla front-end, back-end, user-permissions, design capabilities and any topics that may require further explanation that are not covered by the forums.

Do I need to know HTML, Javascript and PHP programming languages?

Even though, Joomla is built using the PHP programming language, you don’t have to know a single line or command of PHP for you to use Joomla to design and develop interactive and sophisticated websites. You will have an added advantage over others if you already know some PHP, but don’t worry, you can develop great websites without having to write a single line of PHP code yourself. Neither do you need to know MySQL. You can build and launch functional Joomla websites without knowing MySQL.

There are no advanced skills needed to develop Joomla-based websites. But here are some skills that will come in handy sometimes:

HTML: A working knowledge (even if basic) of HTML is useful especially when you want to do some custom modification of the Joomla templates. But if you need to brush up on the fundamentals then click here for this site is were most designers learn their trade. You can aslo test your skills with fun exercises.

CSS: Cascading Style Sheets is a form of HTML that is used to design the formatting (tables, color schemes, etc.) of your website. It is used heavily in designing your Joomla templates. Click here for understanding the basics and try out the fun exercises to test your new learnt skills.

PHP: It is great if you understand how to code in PHP. If you can’t, don’t worry, it is NOT necessary for you to learn it to develop Joomla websites. Click here for PHP latest information. Click here for an introduction to the language.

MySQL: This is the database management system that Joomla uses to store your website’s content and user information in. It is great if you understand how it works. But if you don’t, don’t worry about it, your Joomla websites will still work in the background to make everything work seamlessly and painlessly without you having to touch the MySQL database at all. Click here for the latest development.

JavaScript: This is used to manipulate forms, CSS tags and more. Click here for an introduction to javascript.

Are you still with us?

Hopefully we have not put you off learning Joomla! As stated, you can skip all of the above and concentrate on administrating and designing your website. Not only that, we will be explaining how to prepare organising your business website and introducing you to basic marketing techniques. Click here to go to our 'preparing your website' link that explains the main points to consider before developing your site.