Things tagged on designguru.org with "Joomla"

Juma are a Canadian fashion label with two lines; their signature label as well as 'Movement' - an active line of women's wear. Both are tailored for a conservative yet young and funky female who values quality in fabric, stitching and timeless style.

To craft an interactive aesthetic for Juma's new site, we embraced light and transparency to achieve feminine yet bold and sexy qualities - shades of darkness and animated fades with the light-boxed gallery entice the site user to explore Juma's collections and offer mystery around the Juma brand.

When we were handed this project after a freelancer was unable to continue development, we immediately recognised the value for Joomla's community-building tools and implemented an array of savvy social networking tools.

bebold.org is a great example of how people can come together online, express their motivation in life and forge friendships and other alliances. Functionally, registered members can fill out profiles relating to the topic matter of the book and monitor who on the site has visited them. We built in a private messaging system and simple message board that automatically links each post to the profile of its poster.

A completely bespoke aesthetic was designed - inspired by skype.com and empowered with scalability; a discussion forum was installed to allow for customer interaction and offer new thinking on customer (self) support. In addition to listing products, the site offers both document and software downloads to support multi-link products plus serve as a within-staff document repository.

This long-term project has seen a website evolve with Bobby's career - from being a simple place to store his bio, we have worked with him to develop and then grow his email contact database - helping him promote the music he presents on his BBC Radio1 and Asian Network shows. Recent introductions have been a wordpress-powered blog and media gallery, both integrated into the CMS.

In order to relate better to foreign audiences coming to Niagara as tourists, this Joomla CMS-powered site was enabled with on-demand translation functionality in 8 languages other than English. Future functionality has been built into the site such as a blog and multi-media gallery, which will be introduced strategically towards the end of 2006.

From concept to completion, this site was built in Joomla with community functionality allowing users to register, sign up for Ken's newsletter, login and register for hosted events listed in an online calendar. Additional programming allowed admins to use the site to create cross-browser compliant HTML newsletters they can work on collaboratively.

With a huge alumni and large number of camp attendees per year, this camp wanted to use their website to maintain and develop their community online. The solution entailed a site that integrates content publishing with a private members-only discussion forum and media gallery. As well, bespoke forms were peppered throughout the site with error reporting to ensure that they were filled correctly - to allow future staff to apply for jobs, alumni to subscribe to the Alumni Newsletter and so on.

A previous site had existed for a number of years as static-HTML without form validation or any type of automated processes. The new site maintained a navigational interface that read top-to-bottom, left-to-right- with menus using graphics dynamically controlled through the Content Management System with active and hover states. Easy content management was afforded through front-end admin login and the whole site employs human-readable semantic URL re-writing.

As a yoga instructor who has developed his own school of yoga, Neil Patel wanted a new site to publish a large body of philosphy he believes in. The site's aesthetic was to be dark and intensly energetic yet somehow calm, reflecting the nature of his yoga. Integrated to the CMS is a simple photogallery and discussion forum to help his students talk about their practice etc.