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Global Packaging Times is a news site that posts news stories, events and important articles on the requirements and regulations for the packaging and labeling industry.
The client requested a complete site web design and development. The original site was an asp.net site with html files. The goal was to port current site content over into a Joomla content management system installation.
An additional requirement to set up a shop for marketing and selling pdf files for an Executive Report Series of White Papers. I selected Hikashop as the shop extension, created promotional banners for the mastheads and a installed a neat ajax login extension to replace the core Joomla login module.
Budget was tight and he has decide to wait to connect the shop module to a gateway but free downloads of the whitepapers are available to download. As the site is still using the free version of Hikashop shop module, customizations were limited to cosmetic appearance like table widths, div widths, and some php adjustments. The cart module has been modified to present the number of items in the shopping cart in a button link in the upper right corner of the page.
We also developed a Newsletter in AcyMailing Joomla extension to be used to bring readers to the website on a monthly basis. The Global Packaging Times Newsletter is scheduled to be mailed monthly through a desktop program called MailKing. It mails from your desktop server through authsmpt.
This site is a complete renovation from it’s original state. It was created, designed, developed in 2 months and is currently in the testing stage. It has been customized to be responsive and uses media queries to tailor css to each browser window display size. Media queries for IE7,8 are currently in development and I am working on a redirect for mobile site to present a simpler information structure for mobile phones.
- Global Packaging Times







