ConNextLA is a group of business professionals in Los Angeles. They wanted to update the design of their site and add some functionality as well. Celtic Wolf made the following changes:
- Customized the open source template "JA Purity" to use ConNextLA's colors and images, resulting in a new, clean, professional appearance
- Modified the format of the event listings to match ConNextLA's requirements
- Added a "member spotlight" box on the left side to randomly show a shot description of a member
- Changed the member listing page to show only the first few sentences of each member's description, followed by a "read more" link
- Provided a way to have the image on the member's page appear on the left or the right. Text is wrapped around it smoothly, allowing for a more varied and professional layout.
Technical Details: The site was created with Joomla!, an open source content management system. Celtic Wolf was able to utilize its experience with Joomla! to quickly make the changes required by the client. We duplicated their site on our server and did all development and testing in that environment, so that the production web-site was not affected. Once the client was happy with the new template design and functionality, we transferred the changes to their server. For this project, we leveraged our knowledge of Joomla!, CSS, XHTML and PHP.
