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Joomla Website of the Month: March 2010 – Cross Creek Ranch

admin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 03:40:58 +0000

Every month, there will be a website nominated as Joomla Website of the Month and for March 2010, this award was given to Cross Creek Ranch. It is a community website based in Texas. In fact, Cross Creek Ranch is also one of the fastest growing areas in the state.

The design of the website looks absolutely fascinating. It is designed creatively by the Trendmaker Development Company. The usage of brown as well as green gives it a very Texan-like atmosphere to the website itself.

A lot of information about Cross Creek Ranch is available on the website. Such example is the property map which is powered by both AJAX and Flash. The website covers sections such as amenities, education, inventory and even about us.

It is a perfect example of how a community website should be. Not only should it look great but it should also give a lot of information for both the prospective customer and the current customer.

All in all, the Cross Creek Ranch can not only be an inspiration to designers but as a guide to any Joomla community area website builders as well. Head on to crosscreekranch.com to find out more about the website and about the place itself.

Joomla Site of the Month – February 2010 – International House of Pancakes

admin — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 03:21:40 +0000

This month of February is celebrated by the nomination of the International House of Pancakes as the Joomla Site of the Month. International House of Pancakes or IHOP for short is a restaurant chain famous in the United States of America.

The IHOP site is build through the use of Joomla, a very popular and versatile content management system. The overall template of the site looks very friendly and mirrors the friendliness of the restaurant as well.

The company uses a lot of flash in its website which may be bad for SEO. But in the case of this website, it may not be much of a problem as the website serves only as an information hub for the restaurant itself. People visiting the website would most probably come from the visitors at their brick and mortar store.

In addition to that, the site has made good use of media content such as photograph, videos and many others. It doesn’t look dull because of a lot of writing and instead of having those, the site uses as little writing as possible but delivers its main point from photographs as well as videos.

Overall, the site proves how good Joomla can be. It also shows what is possible with the use of creativity.