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Retractable Banner Stand online catalog with Joomla |
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Thursday, 07 June 2007 |
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Retractable-Banner-Stands.com demonstrates the practical use of Joomla! to showcase and display products in the form of a professional online catalog. The cost and time of custom graphics design is saved with the large amount of choices of free Joomla templates and those from some cheap but high design quality template clubs. The main reason for Retractable-Banner-Stands.com to be built on Joomla! is the ease to let non-tech admin staff to manage the company's news and to update the new Banner products. Although there are some other famous open source CMS could be used, Joomla’s great choice of professional template design makes it second to none for running a commercial grade professional online catalog.
Background The designer of <a href="http://retractable-banner-stands.com/" target="_blank" title="Retractable Banner Stand">Retractable-Banner-Stands.com</a> simply planned to use Dreamweaver to build a static website originally for there is not a great number of retractable banner stand products from this manufacturer need to be displayed initially in the start up. But soon before the completion of this website, it rolls out that more other non-retracting banners and products need to be displayed on this online catalog. With the limited technical knowledge of the content managing staff of this manufacturing company, the designer have finally decided to give up the building of static web pages. Key Issues With the time already wasted in preparing some static pages by Dreamwaever in the preliminary stage, a longer term review of the potential development and requirement for this website is made this time. The following is a few major issues need to be considered for this online catalog’s ongoing development: 1. The updating of the major product line - Retractable Banner Stands must be effective for up to around 100 items. 2. The new product updates must be easy for any non-technical admin staff. 3. The addition of new product categories for other non-Retracting Banners products must be unlimited and easy enough to be done by any non-technical admin staff. 4. Although it is currently not necessary to have any eCommerce features, the system should be easily upgraded without much cost to include shopping cart function in the future when needed. Solution :: <a href="http://retractable-banner-stands.com/" target="_blank" title="Retractable Banner Stands">Retractable-Banner-Stands.com</a> powered by Joomla So the final decision to use Joomla for this Retractable Banner Stand manufacturer’s website is straight forward. There simply is no second choice to Joomla. 1. Joomla’s large supply of free and cheap but professional templates is the primary concern which no other open source CMS could compare. 2. The ease of use without much learning time, makes all non-tech admin staff could almost jumpstart the product listing in less than half an hour’s briefing. 3. The future addition of the famous free Virtuemart eCommerce component to the Joomla CMS could make the future upgrade to an online shop almost timeless and without the need to sacrifice the existing online catalog. 4. The major problem of this manufacturer is that they simply have not much idea of how the site could be used or might be developed with the limited budget to go online. Fortunately, Joomla is one of the most flexible CMS with the existence of huge developer groups, who are all so kind in contributing different powerful components for everyone’s benefits at no cost. With the infinite supply of easy to install components, the expansion of Joomla powered websites are virtually unlimited. |
