Joomla! CMS Project Mistake Number Two: Not staying focused on what is important or maintaining priorities

When a typical Joomla! CMS web project begins someone usually writes a big laundry list of all the features they want. Most often this has not yet been reviewed in depth by a developer whom can provide detailed specifications for the project tasking. At http://www.cnpintegrations.com/ and most consulting firms like ours, we call this the discovery phase of the project where we go through this list and map it to either business processes or available extensions for the Joomla! CMS.

In this discovery phase we try to bridge the gaps between what is already available or requires custom coding, how the client could alter their business processes to be more effective or reduce costs and to assess the training required for the client’s users and stakeholders to be effective.

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E-commerce can be a tricky business.  Depending on what type of e-commerce you plan on doing, your needs for an online store will vary widely.  With everyone from physical business owners going online, to drop-shipping, affiliate selling, and intellectual or electronic products being sold, the demands for any ecommerce store are diverse.  Luckily for Joomla! users, developers have  developed a wide variety of ecommerce platforms and shopping carts that integrate seamlessly with Joomla!, giving you as a site or store owner the versatility needed to make your store a success! 

Virtuemart

Virtuemart is probably the most well-known, and the most used shopping solution for Joomla!.  The fact that it has been around for the longest means that it probably the most stable ecommerce software, as well as being able to provide a wide variety of add-ons, and plugins to help you accomplish just about anything.  Whether it is integration with Quick Books,

An often overlooked side effect of being the oldest is that it has an older look to it.  If you’re looking for a super-simple administration panel or nice interfaces, then Virtuemart may let you down here.  It’s older design seems to turn many people away from it, but what it lacks in style Virtuemart definitely makes up for with power and flexibility.

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Mistake Number One: The Client thinking that they do not need to be involved in the process.

Joomla! CMS for simple sites with prepared content and well defined design specs on a site that does not change could be handed off to a team to “just build this” but sites with any type of dynamic and changing content requires a very hands on approach from the client to be effective.

Since the shift from static web sites through the introduction of the dynamic website revolution there has been a battle between where and when a client should be actively involved in the process of developing their site and where they can or should hand off aspects of the development. This is highly contrasted by the size of the budget and diversity of the stakeholders. The client almost always has superior subject matter expertise on their content while the Joomla! CMS support team has theirs in the framework, project execution and technology. We have found that every project is unique in these areas and there is not a one size fits all that works for any project.

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