It has been many, many months (years?) of hard work, but we have finally cut-over to our new Joomla based website, and I have to admit it looks good! (check it out at yesheritage.com)  All the credit for the good looks goes to Trent, who is the new “graphics master”.  My job has been pretty easy after setting up the server and getting it configured – I just run around restoring the site after Trent accidentally deletes everything.

We finally moved off our Drupal based site.  Drupal is a great product for an admin (me), but Joomla was just easier for our end-users to work with, so that sealed the deal.  This is just the first phase.  Next will be adding in some new modules and housekeeping around the site to get it more organized.  DOCMan and the newly updated Fireboard Message board system are in the works.

Then the big one, CiviCRM.   It is already installed, we just aren’t using it yet.

Big thanks to the Joomla Team and all of it’s contributors, as well as the Web team at HCC: Rebecca, Natalie, and ‘Delete Master’ Trent.

So, do you use a framework like Joomla for your site? Is it custom?

Interested to see what it used to look like in (before I started going to Heritage)?  I pulled this from the Internet Wayback Machine.  It is quite… sparse