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Webilicious Web Design and Development

New Webilicious Website Launched

18 April 2012
Webilicious

Joomla 1.5 to Joomla 2.5 Migration

The Webilicious website has finally been updated to Joomla 2.5. It's refreshing to work on my own website which has been neglected for a while! I am intending on blogging more, and will now have one less excuse!

Search Engine Optimisation

After some first rate results for clients, I'll soon be testing recently acquired search engine optimisation skills on the Webilicious website. Web design, web development and similar phrases are hotly contested search terms so it will be interesting to see how well I can do!

Web Design

The "Momentum" template from RocketTheme has been installed and customised. I'm not convinced about the background yet so let me know if you have any better ideas.

New Features

Other new features include:

Nibbler Test Score

The website scored 7.4 in the Nibbler test tool at launch time which I'm happy with in the meantime!

Update: It's now scoring 8.6 since validating some code in the RSS feed and adding a printing stylesheet.

Feedback is welcome!

New VW Club of WA Website

18 April 2012
VW Club of WA

Joomla 1.5 to Joomla 2.5 Migration

The VW Club of WA asked me about some changes to their Joomla 1.5 website. It made sense to to migrate the website to Joomla 2.5 now so that work would not have to be repeated later, and so that is what we have done.

Web Design

The excellent "Momentum" template from RocketTheme has been installed and customised. Much of the original layout has been retained but the new template is more versatile and allows the forums and events calendar to be displayed at the full width of the page, something that couldn't easily be done with the original template.

Migration

The challenge with this project was ensuring that users and their associated gallery, forums and events data were all migrated together. A migration tool such as jUpgrade or SP Upgrade needs to be used to ensure that user IDs are the same on the source and the target website so that forum posts and so on are attributed to the correct user.

I used SP Upgrade and at €24.95, this is excellent value. SP Upgrade migrates most of the Joomla core features including users, categories, articles, images, contacts, weblinks, news feeds, menus and even modules if you want. With the modules, you still have to install the Joomla 2.5 versions and usually choose new module positions etc as these are often different.

Migrating JoomGallery, JEvents and Kunena is not so straightforward and these will likely be the subject of future blog posts.

Features

Other features implemented on the website include:

  • "accordion" news feature using RokNewsPager from RocketTheme
  • social networking "share" and "follow" buttons

Nibbler Test Score

The website scored 7.3 in the Nibbler test tool at launch time which is reasonable. The social networking buttons that have been added to the website should help boost the score when members and visitors start clicking on them!

Feedback is welcome!

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We are extremely happy with Neil at Webilicious who has produced a very professional website and Internet presence for us. He provided operation manuals for the different components of the site and gave us training on...
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