Open Source for New Jersey Web Sites
July 25th, 2007 by new jersey host
Cyber X Designs (find us in Google under New Jersey Web Design) chooses to build websites and web applications using open source applications because they are extensible and provide an excellent foundation. A great example is Robin Rolfe Resource’s website which was developed using Joomla, Flash, PHP and MySQL. Robin Rolfe Resource (RRR) is in Fort Lee, NJ, we love our New Jersey customers!
We developed a handful of custom Joomla! modules to control things like the flash navigation (yes, Cyber X Designs provides custom Flash design services). The custom flash module directs flash to load the appropriate background art and display the correct navigation based on where you are in the site. We choose this approach so that the flash would be very light weight and fast loading, yet their could be a single navigation swf file for the entire site. This made development and management of the Flash much more efficient. The mixing of Flash and Joomla provides an excellent user experience for both the site maintainers and their customers. There are other custom modules on the RRR site but we can’t really talk about them as they are proprietary to Cyber X Design’s customers.