Sandbox Development and Consulting Inc. » XOOPS http://www.sandboxdev.com Building Solutions for Your Business Needs. Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:44:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 The Illinois School Psychologists Association XOOPS CMS http://www.sandboxdev.com/portfolio/131/the-illinois-school-psychologists-association/ http://www.sandboxdev.com/portfolio/131/the-illinois-school-psychologists-association/#comments Thu, 01 Dec 2005 21:48:41 +0000 jzelazny http://www.sandboxdev.com/portfolio/2007/10/04/the-illinois-school-psychologists-association.php
url: http://www.ilispa.org SDAC Inc provided: Web/Graphic Design User Experience/Information Architect Consultation XHTML/CSS programming CMS (XOOPS) configuration XOOPS/SMARTY theme Custom PHP programming PayFlow Link Integration (e-commerce) technologies used: XHTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, XOOPS, SMARTY, PhotoShop Elements user interface: This web site is for the Illinois School Psychologists Association (ISPA). I wanted to create a feature rich web site that was easy to navigate, and most importantly easy to [...]]]>

url: http://www.ilispa.org

ISPA

SDAC Inc provided:

  • Web/Graphic Design
  • User Experience/Information Architect Consultation
  • XHTML/CSS programming
  • CMS (XOOPS) configuration
  • XOOPS/SMARTY theme
  • Custom PHP programming
  • PayFlow Link Integration (e-commerce)

technologies used:

XHTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, XOOPS, SMARTY, PhotoShop Elements

user interface:

This web site is for the Illinois School Psychologists Association (ISPA). I wanted to create a feature rich web site that was easy to navigate, and most importantly easy to maintain. This site uses SMARTY templates so I was able to edit a small number of templates that are used with all new pages – allowing ISPA to focus on content and note layout and design.

lessons learned:

This web site has 1,000 paid members so I used aMember Pro and Verisign PayFlow Link to power the user management system. I learned that a CMS is as great as the third party plugins and development environment is.

random thoughts:

Although it is nice to have a customer that has reoccurring support needs (file upload, change text, etc), I decided it was time to roll out a product that would give the power of content change to the users. For this web site, I trained the Executive Director on how to create, edit, delete online content, as well as how to create simple forms and reports using XOOPS.

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url: http://www.sandboxdev.com SDAC Inc. provided: Web/Graphic Design XHTML/CSS programming CMS (XOOPS) configuration XOOPS/SMARTY theme Custom PHP programming technologies used: XHTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, XOOPS, SMARTY, PhotoShop Elements user interface: This web site was for my consulting company. I wanted to create a web site that was easy to navigate, and professional looking. This site uses SMARTY templates so I was able to edit [...]]]>

url: http://www.sandboxdev.com

SDAC

SDAC Inc. provided:

  • Web/Graphic Design
  • XHTML/CSS programming
  • CMS (XOOPS) configuration
  • XOOPS/SMARTY theme
  • Custom PHP programming

technologies used:

XHTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, XOOPS, SMARTY, PhotoShop Elements

user interface:

This web site was for my consulting company. I wanted to create a web site that was easy to navigate, and professional looking. This site uses SMARTY templates so I was able to edit a small number of templates that are used with all new pages – allowing me to have consistency throughout the entire web site.

lessons learned:

More and more clients wanted greater control over their content, so I wanted to learn a new Content Management System. This web site was my first attempt to roll out a CMS (content management system) using (XOOPS). A good lesson for CMS developers (which I learned), even though there is a lot of built in functionality with CMSes, it still takes several hours/weeks to customize the framework.

random thoughts:

CMSes like XOOPS can sometimes be overkill for small companies like mine. I ended up moving everything to WordPress (see SDAC 2006) after I learned XOOPS and implemented another XOOPS web site.

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