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7- How do you find professionals interested in adopting Open Source CMS
platforms?
Our goal is to raise the level of development in the Joomla industry.
The days of a single developer designing components all by himself,
without proper product design and QA,
are numbered. In the future, quality will be the main selling point,
and the Joomla community will not compromise on that like they do now.
I also predict that the new Joomla version (1.5), because it's more
user-friendly, will bring a lot more people into the community. They
won't be as tech-savvy as current Joomla publishers though, and they
won't tolerate badly-designed components.
8- What were the most important technical issues that you faced in the development of your solutions?
The main problem we had was integrating with other popular components
and with core Joomla itself. Early on we found that SEF was very
important to the Joomla community so we made every effort to make our
products compatible with the popular SEF components. We had pretty good
success, especially with Artio and SEF Advance.
The other challenge was keeping up with the constant Joomla
releases. Joomla has made some very big changes in the past year and
sometimes these changes broke some of the functionalities of our
magazine component. We really had to roll up our sleeves and fix these
problems, while still keeping it compatible with the previous releases
and considering the upcoming Joomla 1.5.
9- An iJoomla success story?
iJoomla certainly helped our publishers be successful. I've seen some
really amazing sites that were created using iJoomla Magazine and some
of them are huge publishers. The United Nations, for example, have just
started using iJoomla Magazine. I've also noticed that in time, our
clients have become more and more savvy, and are using the extension in
ways that I never dreamed of when I was designing the features. Some of
my favorite sites using iJoomla Magazine are:
10- So what are you working on now?
We're working on some very exciting components. The biggest are iJoomla
DigiStore and iJoomla AdServer. The Digistore will allow you to have an
online store up and running "out of the box" without any programming or
any modifications. Initially, it will be suitable for virtual goods
such as software and eBooks, etc. We think that VirtueMart shopping
cart is way too heavy for 99 percent of the users. We want to provide a
simple and elegant solution for anyone who wants to sell virtual goods
and allow their users to instantly download the products. And as
always, we will provide free support, which is something you usually
can't get with free components like VirtueMart. iJoomla DigiStore will
be available in a couple of months, if everything goes as planned.
The other component is an ad server that will allow publishers to
run many different types of advertisements on their sites, manage
advertisers, create campaigns, view live stats, and more. This
component turned out to be very complex and it's been taking us longer
to develop than we've anticipated. But we're making good progress and
we hope to release it in a couple of months.
Thank you.
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