Website development project with Joomla 3 Content Management System
Ruuth, Jesper (2014)
HAAGA-HELIA ammattikorkeakoulu
2014
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2014120117616
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2014120117616
Tiivistelmä
Content management systems (CMS) are probably the most popular frameworks to build content rich websites that require extensive editorial tools. Joomla is currently the second most popular CMS and over the years it has become an extremely robust and secure platform thanks to its active and thriving developer community.
This thesis describes re-development process of a website called “Freedom for Sale”. The website was built with Joomla and the implementation included the entire development life-cycle including some special activities such as data cleansing and data migration. The project was commissioned by Art Films production Oy and it was carried out between September 2013 and April 2014.
The goal of Freedom for Sale is to promote human rights and freedom of speech by highlighting grievances and monitoring governments and multinational corporations, whose actions support or ignore violations of human rights and free speech. By providing videos, articles and reports the website provides a medium for the mistreated to get their voices heard and by so help the world’s development.
The website has a troublesome past. It was initially launched in 2007, but it was shut down after becoming a victim of harmful cyber-attacks, which corrupted majority of data and content in the process. Valid backups were not available to be used.
Besides describing the development process, this report describes the core concepts of CMSs, Joomla, information architecture and data cleansing. The thesis will also suggest a method how data cleansing and migration could be applied to Joomla with Excel or similar spreadsheet application.
This thesis describes re-development process of a website called “Freedom for Sale”. The website was built with Joomla and the implementation included the entire development life-cycle including some special activities such as data cleansing and data migration. The project was commissioned by Art Films production Oy and it was carried out between September 2013 and April 2014.
The goal of Freedom for Sale is to promote human rights and freedom of speech by highlighting grievances and monitoring governments and multinational corporations, whose actions support or ignore violations of human rights and free speech. By providing videos, articles and reports the website provides a medium for the mistreated to get their voices heard and by so help the world’s development.
The website has a troublesome past. It was initially launched in 2007, but it was shut down after becoming a victim of harmful cyber-attacks, which corrupted majority of data and content in the process. Valid backups were not available to be used.
Besides describing the development process, this report describes the core concepts of CMSs, Joomla, information architecture and data cleansing. The thesis will also suggest a method how data cleansing and migration could be applied to Joomla with Excel or similar spreadsheet application.