Joomla Web Development
I have been using the Joomla open source Content Management System to build websites since 2005. I am particularly proud of my own two commercial sites that I ram until selling them in 2011. The NZMac.com website featured in the book "Joomla! A User's Guide: Building a Successful Joomla! Powered Website" as an example of how to set up a site using Joomla. The following outlines the way in which the NZMac.com and NZiPhone.com websites were set up using Joomla.
NZMac.com
I established NZMac.com as a website dedicated to supporting the New Zealand Macintosh community. It included the latest New Zealand Macintosh news, discussion forums and reviews. NZ Mac events, businesses, user groups and Mac items for sale all feature on the site.
NZMac.com began life as an HTML-based site with a phpBB based forum. The first step into a CMS-driven site was by using Mambo and a component that allowed HTML files to be displayed within the CMS (an excellent way to transition from static HTML to CMS) and then content was gradually migrated into the database and all HTML files removed. The site then moved to Joomla 1.0, and at the end of 2008, made the migration to Joomla 1.5.
You can see images of the various designs for NZMac.com below. The main extensions in use at the point I sold the website were:
- Akeeba Backup
- CacheCleaner
- CCNewsletter (sadly access is now longer free)
- ChronoForms
- JIncludes
- Jom Comment (not recommended as it hasn't been updated for quite some time)
- JomSocial
- Joomla Content Editor
- JV-LinkDirectory
- JV-Relatives
- Kunena forum
- Mini Ad Spot module
- MyBlog (not recommended as it hasn't been updated for quite some time)
- NewContent Tweeter
- Ninja RSS Syndicator
- QuickFAQ (not recommended as it hasn't been updated for quite some time)
- sh404SEF
- VagrantWeb Social Buttons
- XMap
- XTypo
- YooCarousel module
- YooLogin module
- YooSearch module
- YooTweet module
NZiPhone.com
NZiPhone.com is a sister site to NZMac.com that was launched in June 2008. NZiPhone.com was launched as a Joomla 1.5 website. A major aspect of the site was the reviews component that allows users to submit reviews of iPhone software and hardware.
You can see images of the various designs for NZiPhone.com below. The main extensions in use at the point I sold the website were:
- Akeeba Backup
- CacheCleaner
- CCNewsletter (sadly access is now longer free)
- ChronoForms
- JIncludes
- Jom Comment (not recommended as it hasn't been updated for quite some time)
- Joomla Content Editor
- JV-LinkDirectory
- JV-Relatives
- JReviews
- Kunena forum
- NewContent Tweeter
- Ninja RSS Syndicator
- QuickFAQ (not recommended as it hasn't been updated for quite some time)
- sh404SEF
- uddeIM
- VagrantWeb Social Buttons
- XMap
- XTypo
- YooLogin module
- YooTweet module
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