Creating a website with Joomla is as easy as having fun adding your pictures to Flickr or editing and publishing your videos with your Mac. You just do it and it is there. The easy of use the Joomla CMS provides is amazing and for professional web solution developers scary. How often have you already heard the question: "It's so easy even my son can do it and for this you want so much money?".
This session is directed to customers as well as web agencies and solution developers and will explain common pitfalls and wrong assumptions while preparing and planing your web based projects. Even so we are focusing on some aspects of the Joomla CMS the information given are not exclusive for this CMS and may apply to any other solution such as Drupal, Typo3 or even MS Sharepoint projects.
Based on our experience with large and small web-projects you will get an unique inside in solutions developed on different platforms and with different web frameworks including .net, PHP and Java. I will highlight best-practises in preparing a request for proposal (RFP) and evaluate the quotes you get in return. We will discuss elements you should focus in your requirement descriptions and last but not least we will use a real life example in the session to elaborate which aspects of information architecture, design and project and site management are essential for having a successful integration as well as long fun with your new web solution.
Alex is working in the Intenet technology sector already since mid 90ties and managed among others projects for the German Ski Association, AutoScout24 and Media-Control GfK. He is involved in the Joomla project as member of the Mambo/Joomla organizational teams since 2004 and is author of the Joomla Developers Handbook (german) published by Addison-Wesley. With his company Think Network (www.thinknetwork.com) he is focusing on the strategic and management aspects of technology usage within corporations and helps to implement solutions based on Open Source technology.
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