You built a great, professionally designed website using the latest and greatest in web technology and everyone loved it. But that was 2005, what about today?

If you left the site as is, today it would be outdated, old and behind your competition. Content would need to be updated, images replaced and new elements added to keep up with today’s socially connected world.

Today it is easy to setup a business website with all the bells and whistles and have them ecommerce enabled. This was not always the case. Just a few years back it was difficult for most online entrepreneurs to get their own ecommerce website built without spending a fortune.

Thanks to the open source revolution, we have a variety of platforms to choose from to easily setup a business website with ecommerce enabled.

This post looks at 3 highly popular Joomla components. These components support the key elements for a successful Joomla website, namely Ecommerce, SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and Social Networking.