Mobile applications are growing in popularity and it is becoming increasingly important now that you tailor your web portal to be supported in mobile environments. Fortunately Joomla! CMS has several extensions and template configurations that will offer this capability.

Start with a smart template:

Using a third party template vender for your design foundation can save you a ton of time and money when implementing a mobile strategy for your site.  Rocket Theme or YooTheme templates for are a good example of template venders that have built in features for presenting your portal on mobile devices. You are allowed in these templates to configure primary menus for a mobile user which allows you to segment content just for your mobile user. This is often a good idea if you have a portal that leverages a lot of 3^rd party components since not all components will display as well as others in a mobile browser. There is also a great component/template extension called “MobileJoomla” which is simple to install and works pretty much right out of the box. It is very important to test and view your portal on the targeted mobile devices so you can see what your users are seeing and adjust where required to create an optimized mobile user experience.

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CNP Integrations has developed a revolutionary new tool that can help you migrate Drupal to Joomla!, giving you the power to migrate your website to a stable, versatile platform that combines the power of an extensible framework, with the ease of use of the Joomla! administrator.  With this service provided for any webmaster, you now have the ability to seamlessly magrate, convert, and integrate all of your current data from Drupal, into the award winning Joomla! CMS.

CNP Integrations is now offering this as a service.  This service was developed for you after a proprietary Drupal to Joomla! migration and conversation was made for one of our clients.  This migration resulted in the successful move from a “hacked” Drupal environment, with many modifications made in order to accomplish the sites goals, to a new Joomla! environment where, along with K2, a more sustainable workflow was implemented, with much less customizations required.  This migration successfully ported over 20,000 content pieces, comments for each article, as well as thousands of users for the sites that were migrated.  In our research, this has never been done before.  We could not find any instances of a successful Drupal to Joomla! migration or conversion documented, nevertheless one of this magnitude

Here’s How Our Drupal to Joomla! Migration Works

CNP Integrations developers have analyzed and mapped the entire database structure for Drupal content nodes, and mapped those to Joomla! Content Component, or the K2 Content Kit for those that demand even more flexibility.  From there, our developers can safely migrate all your content directly from your database into a new Joomla! installation.  This has already been done for all of Drupals core content options, meaning you won’t lose anything from your existing content, not even comments!

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