CMS Website Development UK


Case Study -
Automated automotive retail website that can plug into an existing publishers website. Client Overview: Fortune 500 client, A leading software company. Client is based at United Kingdom.
Principles of development: Participatory Research is a process whereby the intrinsic value of peoples knowledge is the basis for their own empowerment. Participatory Development is a process whereby people are empowered to plan and implement their own development plans.

The Challenge:
  • Migration of a large database of over 15 million records, high resolution photos and other data for vehicles and auto-dealers.
  • Customizing the look for individual publisher groups and publishers.
  • Role based access and features.
  • Shopping tools including: payment calculator, safety features, and many more...
  • Expert & consumer ratings & reviews.
  • Migration of database and users from jsp-postgress SQL.

Key research information includes:

Fast and robust application development with fast turnaround time and low budget is what our primary target. As a robust and ready made php-mysql framework we suggest Drupal or Joomla frame  work. Client suggested Joomla as he was familiar with it.

As per requirements we made new scalable Joomla modules to manage all requirements as follows -
  • Pluggable Joomla components/modules.
  • Pluggable vehicle database and photo gallery.
  • Expert & consumer ratings & reviews.
  • Extensive pricing & incentive information.
  • Nationwide dealer network with Google map api.
  • Payment calculator, safety features.
  • 3 levels  of user access.
  • Options to customize pluggable vehicle data and RSS feeds.
  • Synchronization  with 50millinon records from vehicle database vendor.

Technology used:
Client Side: HTML, DHTML, JavaScript
Server Side: PHP 5.2
Database: Mysql
Platform/OS: Apache, Linux
CMS: Joomla