This document summarizes the process of building the http://joomlagov.info/ website to showcase government websites built with Joomla. Key aspects included: 1. Capturing data on over 2,800 government sites using Joomla and displaying it visually on an interactive map with categories and screenshots. 2. Integrating various Joomla extensions like K2 and Chronoforms to manage and display the large volume of content, with features like Google Maps integration and form submissions. 3. Facing challenges like limited resources but addressing them through automation, community contributions, and prioritizing performance and a clean design.

1. Case Study - How we built the http:
//joomlagov.info/ website

2. The White House site is built on Drupal. Can you top that?
wiki http://joomlagov.info
Response to the question posed to Ryan Ozimek in March 2011

3. 1. Visual representation of all government
websites using Joomla!
2. Easy updates, quick addition of new listings
and Minimal Maintenance
3. Site speed and performance

4. Joomla! Extensions
● Joomlaworks K2
● Editor - JCE Editor
● Chronoforms
● Disqus comment system
● NoNumber! Extension Manager
● XMap
● XCloner Backup and Restore

5. 3rd Party Api's
● Google Maps Api version 3
● Disqus comment system

6. Challenges Faced
● Capturing a huge volume of data
● Simplifying the management of new data records and updates
● No budget
● Tight deadline

7. Solutions
● Automation (Selenium IDE / Python scripts)
● Old fashioned manual labour (community workforce)

8. Workflow

9. Project scope
● 253 categories
● 2847 articles
● 2847 screen captures
● 261 menu items

10. Getting content into Joomla
● Scraping wiki doc and customizing output (long, lat, coutry)
● Automating screen captures, resizing and renaming
● Creating content by merging text and images

11. Hit Replay Button

12. Design and template
● fresh clean look
● map focal point
● room for growth

13. Integration
● K2 extra fields with Google Maps Api
● Chronoforms with K2

14. K2 Extra Fields - HTML Overrides

15. K2 Category Map clustering

16. K2 Article - HTML Overrides

17. Chronoforms submissions directly into K2

18. Performance enhancements
● re-order code
● compression (css, js, html)
● caching on

19. Data is Boring - Maps are fun

20. Data is Boring - Maps are fun