Talks & Sessions

A site rebuilt - realising the power of Joomla

A case study about a joomla website (http://www.ocsl.ch) using Zoo (yootheme), Morph (joomlajunkie), Acesef (joomace) and other small extentions like simpletitle (module), mission control (rockettheme) etc.

Basically, it started from a website made with a software called Webaccapella which allows beginners to get a website up and running without knowing anything about coding. However, it lacks the insight to optimal web performance. For example, every elements are absolutely positioned, the amount of codes per page are insane etc.

The goal was to “reproduce” this website, by using joomla and the extensions mentioned above. On the old website, about a 1000 € each month was spent on google add in order to get clients. On the new website, which has been up and running for about 8 months (only 3 month for the stable version), the company is generating more clients with no money spent on google add.

For this case study, I will talk about :

• How we proceeded to reproduce the site
• Morph (performances, costume php to load css files according to the app being used with zoo etc.)
• Zoo (Setting up different apps, different layouts, maybe costume elements or using existing elements, types etc.)
• Acesef (setting it up for zoo, getting the url working well and customising it, metedata, generating sitemap etc.)
• Simple title (how to get it work well with zoo’s categories, item etc.)

Presenter: Thierry Muller (SA) (OCSL Education)