Case Study - How we built the http://joomlagov.info/ website

The White House site is built on Drupal. Can you top that?

wiki http://joomlagov.info

Response to the question posed to Ryan Ozimek in March 2011

1. Visual representation of all government websites using Joomla!

2. Easy updates, quick addition of new listings and Minimal Maintenance

3. Site speed and performance

Joomla! Extensions ● Joomlaworks K2 ● Editor - JCE Editor● Chronoforms● Disqus comment system● NoNumber! Extension Manager● XMap● XCloner Backup and Restore

3rd Party Api's ● Google Maps Api version 3● Disqus comment system

Challenges Faced

● Capturing a huge volume of data● Simplifying the management of new data records and updates● No budget ● Tight deadline

Solutions

● Automation (Selenium IDE / Python scripts)● Old fashioned manual labour (community workforce)

Workflow

Project scope

● 253 categories● 2847 articles● 2847 screen captures● 261 menu items

Getting content into Joomla

● Scraping wiki doc and customizing output (long, lat, coutry)● Automating screen captures, resizing and renaming● Creating content by merging text and images

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Design and template

● fresh clean look ● map focal point● room for growth

Integration

● K2 extra fields with Google Maps Api● Chronoforms with K2

K2 Extra Fields - HTML Overrides

K2 Category Map clustering

K2 Article - HTML Overrides

Chronoforms submissions directly into K2

Performance enhancements

● re-order code● compression (css, js, html)● caching on

Data is Boring - Maps are fun

Data is Boring - Maps are fun