1. Ten Steps of a Modern Joomla
Web Design Process
OGO Sense | www.ogosense.com Presenter: Ogy Nikolic

2. Possible Problems with Joomla Website
Design Process
 Low quality
 High expense
 Software bugs
 Frustration
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3. Joomla Design Process Goals
 Maximize your website project ROI.
 Decrease development, maintenance and unexpected costs.
 Set end result expectations early in the process.
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4. Joomla Design Process Phases
Start
Custom
Software
Website Training
Solutions Site Release
Consulting &Tutorials
Intelligent
Template Site SEO & End
Design Architecture Content Entry
Standard Content
Business Migration / Beta Testing
Solutions Import
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5. Website Consulting
 Internet strategy, project management, professional and
personalized advice.
 Web team will help determine and explain remaining 9 stages of
the design process in advance.
 Graphics designer will provide sound design recommendations.
 Project milestones are set.
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6. Template Design
 Designed according image files that you have approved.
 Personalized with your branding colors, clean, professional, fast
loading and cross browser compatible.
 Emphasize your website content and establish your brand.
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7. Standard Business Solutions
 Base Joomla installation and standard Joomla components
integration.
 Best Joomla extension selection for your needs.
 Installing, configuring and personalizing Joomla extensions.
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8. Examples of Standard Business
Solutions
 Virtuemart Online Shop
 Community Builder Expended Membership

9. Custom Software Solutions
 Requires 100% custom design or significant changes to existing
extensions.
 Software solution that exactly meets your company's special needs
 Provides competitive advantage over your competition.
 More expensive.
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10. General Custom Service Descriptions
 Develop a new Joomla extension based on your needs.
 Adjust existing components (where licensing allows).
 Adjust Joomla! core functionality (not recommended).
 Create interconnections and data exchange modules.
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11. Intelligent Site Architecture
 Build the site outline, menu navigation and a few pages
including demo content.
 Organize website content .
 Your web team will help you
figure out important pages
and easy site architecture.
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12. What does “intelligent” refer to?
 Simple, supports your website workflows, visitor funnels and
conversions.
 Contains correctly assigned keywords based on keyword research.
 Optimized landing pages with good product and service
descriptions.
 Organized Joomla sections, categories, articles & menu navigation.
OGO Sense | www.ogosense.com Presenter: Ogy Nikolic

13. Content Migration and Data Import
 Need to import a large database of users, hundreds of products
or other data into Joomla automatically?
 Why manually? Cut down on time and improve accuracy!
 Data may be imported from spreadsheets, transferred from
other CMS or older versions of Joomla.
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14. Examples of data migrations & imports
 Type of content migration may include gigabytes of data, many
articles, categories and files.
 About anything may be imported automatically if organized in
some systematic order.
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15. Training and Tutorials
 Written tutorials and videos .
 Online training sessions using phone and desktop sharing
software.
 Learn remotely from the comfort
of your office.
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16. SEO and Content Entry
 Keyword research, SEF URLs, Google webmaster tools, Google
Analytics, site map submission, fast page loading and content
categorization.
 Perform SEO on the content that you enter to maximize the
value of your website content.
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17. Beta Testing
 Test the web site prior to its release and work on resolving any
issues.
 Check custom and customized code as well as important
website workflows (user processes).
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18. Why Do Beta Testing?
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19. Site Release
 Domain and hosting setup.
 Additional time will be needed with certain hosts.
 Double-check hosting provider configuration, prevent or
minimize email and website disruptions during website switch.
 Consider high volume traffic, price optimization, security, ease
of maintenance and other unique considerations.
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20. Joomla Design Process Phases
Start
Custom
Software
Website Training
Solutions Site Release
Consulting &Tutorials
Intelligent
Template Site SEO & End
Design Architecture Content Entry
Standard Content
Business Migration / Beta Testing
Solutions Import
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21. Questions
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