Completed Joomla Website

This website was originally a Frontpage-managed, static HTML website. It had been converted to a Joomla site by a previous developer, who was summarily dismissed and then correction attempted by a second developer, who was also dismissed when we were hired. The previous developers had hacked the template code, failed to use Joomla menus or articles and failed to implement a video system for the client. Additionally, multiple components had been installed but not used. Overall, the client was extremely frustrated because the backend was so cluttered, unorganized and poorly laid-out that the client could not use it.

I was hired to correct the issues, properly code and lay-out the site, add video, increase page load time and setup a blog.  During the course of the project, I was retained to create a FAQ section, perform SEO functions and add/edit additional videos.

To complete this project, the following items were performed:

• Converted content from modules to articles
• Restructured sections & categories
• Installed HWDVideoShare to manage videos
• Re-converted original mp4 videos to high-quality FLV's
• Recreated thumbnails for videos
• Setup MyBlog with comments
• Uninstalled all un-necessary components and modules
• Installed MetaMod for modal-based popups
• Cleanup up page code - removed unnecessary module positions, php code and white-space. Also moved CSS and Javascript to separate files
• Created duplicate template for blog page and modified header
• Setup FAQ and added box to front page
• Styled "FAQ", "Firm News" and "SideBar Blog" boxes on front page, as well as making titles clickable.
• Updated .htaccess to redirect old site to new site, and force "www" on all addreses
• Installed sitemap component (Xmap) and submitted to Google, Yahoo and Bing.