This website began as a Joomla! 3.x version as a upgrade from simple html pages and lasted fifteen or so years. It has now been updated to verion 5.x. with template and conversion help provided by appnox (www.appnox.ai - webmaster may be contacted for reference)..The goal was to keep the look-and-fell and navigation unchanged for membership users of the site. Joomla is the core engine that runs this site.
Joomla ranks as one of the three world's largest open-source CMS (content management system). Open-source enables other companies and developers to create additional functionality, some free and others for varying fees. This enables small organizations and companies with limited resources to implement website features otherwise impossible.
The template used for our site is a responsive custom design. While many templates can be found free of charge, most are a horrid fixed size type that deliver significant waste of user screen real-estate with excessive and useless borders along with typically annoying static background images.
Sites implemented using Joomla include:
| • eBay | • Barnes & Noble | • General Electric | • Guaranty Trust Bank |
| • IKEA | • University of Alabama | • Holiday Inn | • European Union |
| • Royal Scottish National Orchestra |
• Charles River Wind Ensemble |
• Sony Pictures | • Piedmont College Fine Arts |
Joomla extensions & plugins (not all are free) in use at our site include:
• AARA User Migrate (very useful but no longer available on J5
• Add User Front-End
• AKEEBA Backup
• Articles Anywhere
• Articles
• Date2-Date/Time Display
• DOCman
• Include
• JCE Editor
• Caption
• File Manager
• Fullpage
• IFramees
• Image Manager Extended
• Media Manager
• JEvents
• jt-Login (provides home page for login users)
• Mailster
• VisForms (form of entering email content and send email to trip mailster forwarding