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- WebGuy
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This was/is my first Joomla website and first CMS.
http://www.nutracea.com
OK go easy on me here please.
Although I've been a web designer for awhile now, I started this as a complete novice to PHP/MySQL.
Tested on FireFox and IE7 only.
And if you really like it I guess you can vote for it:
http://www.rockettheme.com/forum/index.php?t=27891&rb_v=viewtopic#p158079
I do realize that it is a mess in IE6 and normally would develop for this browser...but in a Corp. environment it wasn't pressed upon me to make it work in IE6...made my work much easier...not having to be backward browser compatable. Although if I do get the time (yeah right) I will see if IT can get me another box with IE6 on it...so I can fix it.
Additional Extensions (Components, Modules, Plug ins):
JCalPro - complete redesign of standard template for consistent website look
sh404SEF
VirtueMart - quite a bit of customization
XMap - sitemap in footer
JW Simple Image Rotator
SectionNav - mod_sectionnave
JCalPro Latest Events
Content Item - mod_contentitem
Gavick Featured Content Slider 3.0
MosSnippet - used for code snippets and stock symbol pull from Yahoo
JW Tabs & Slides Plugin
Custom Development:
Quite a bit of custom work went into this as I am very particular to details and making sure it all functions the way it should.
Took quite a while to learn and make it all work.
Specific customization went into the News Archives archives section to display all news in according to Year (4 years worth)...as I found no help or nothing to be able to create the type of Yearly News Archive I wanted. And even this isn't exactly what I wanted, but was closest I could get.
Getting Highslide and jQPanels to work with this template took some major thought, trial and error. It's not perfect but it works
The Sliding Content on the homepage was another creative customization implementation with the use of Gavick Featured Content Slider 3.0. This work was a little taxing because of the limitations of content placed on the homepage and getting it to work with the pathway (breadcrumbs). The slider is 4 different pages of "Static Content" which loads the module using mosloadposition.
Other Features:
News Room / Archive - http://www.nutracea.com/News/2007News/
Highslide Photo Galleries:
http://www.nutracea.com/Facilities-MermentauLA
http://www.nutracea.com/Facilities-LakeCharlesLA
http://www.nutracea.com/Facilities-IrgovelBrazil
jQpanels (using jQuery) - http://www.nutracea.com/BoardOfDirectors - I suspect this to be the major breaking in IE6?
Any specific areas of my site that I'd like feedback on, if any: All comments good or bad are welcome, for sure.
Additional Comments:
This was quite the learning experience and very interesting work. I did have fun doing it.
Thanks,
TheWebGuy - Last Edit: 16 years 9 months ago by WebGuy.
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- RedRiverBlack
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Nice work! You definitely are "The Web Guy"
If people are still living in the past and using IE6 they don't have any right to complain about it looking a mess. It's not hard to upgrade their browser!
- Last Edit: 16 years 9 months ago by RedRiverBlack.
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- Nick Norris
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- Ok, I looked at the site on IE6, and it looks really good. I didn't see anything that looked a mess. Great work on VM, it looks fantastic. All around good job.
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- steve hards
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- WebGuy
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nick norris wrote:
Ok, I looked at the site on IE6, and it looks really good. I didn't see anything that looked a mess. Great work on VM, it looks fantastic. All around good job.
Thanks for all the koodos! It is appreciated for sure.
Concerning IE6...I don't have IE6 here at the office but I have checked it at home. On my version of IE6 it was quite disturbing, as such I am interested in knowing more details about your version of IE6. Maybe the different versions are displaying differently (of course
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Can you tell me which version of IE6 you were viewing this in and what OS?
Thanks again everyone for all the positive replies.
I'm already starting my second Joomla website using HiveMind.
TheWebGuy - I know it's better to teach a man to fish...but if that man is starving, he'll die before he catches the fish.
So do him a favor, feed him first...then teach him to fish.
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- RedRiverBlack
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- Well I will be interested to see how you transform Hivemind, that's for sure! Looking forward to it!
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- Barrie
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Holy cow! if you call yourself a novice and produce a nice looking site like that ,,,,,, I have no hope!! I will have to call myself a Larvae or something!!
Nice work it looks great and has some sweet features - Regards,
Barrief
www.thebigdogblog.com
Replicant V2, (pretty much out of the box)
I don't care how many stars I get I am a NEWBIE!
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- Nanci Memory
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Beautiful site. Very well thought out and executed. Nice Job!
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- Mark at Cristo Rey
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- Wow, I love it -- looks spectacular!! I love the content rotator -- I will have to check that module out.
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