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[thetravellingdr Friend thetravellingdrJoin date: March 2007Posts: 24Downloads:0Uploads:0]

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Travelling Doctors is the online community for Overseas Doctors living and working in Australia. Every year several thousands of doctors come from abroad to work in Australia and most have the same questions, concerns and requirements! As such, Travelling Doctors has become the central focal point for this community… and guess what – IT’S JOOMLA!!! 😎 Our community is currently at a rate of 40% per month!

Website URL: http://www.travellingdoctors.com – please use this link (so as not to dilute the stats) http://www.travellingdoctors.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=300&Itemid=523

Template: JA_Xenia
Note: Originally I paid a company to develop a website for me in Joomla – Big mistake. Buying a professional template from JA was the BEST move i could have made.

Additional Extensions (Components, Modules, Plug ins):
Community Builder
with:
-CB Autowelcome (brilliant – very very useful)
-UddeIM

Simpleboard Forum
with:
– jbdiscussbot

Docman, Image Rotator, EWeather, Extended Ratings, Joomap, GMaps, Zoom Media Gallery

Custom Development:
The majority of hacks are regarding the language files. CB has had certain icons removed but on the whole – it runs “out of the box”

The website is huge – over 200 pages. It has been 1 year in the planning and nearly 4 months in development. I would love to know what you think of appearance, navigation and general ease of use. There is an issue with speed which we are working on and I would be grateful for any suggestions.

I am not a website developer but “grown” into a Joomla’ite. Without Joomla, I could never have afforded to have such a comprehensive website.

[MuffinDCC Friend MuffinDCCJoin date: March 2007Posts: 230Downloads:0Uploads:0]

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Wow, that is a highly extensive site. Great to see you using the typography of the template to a great effect 🙂

[instantinlaw Friend instantinlawJoin date: February 2007Posts: 1646Downloads:6Uploads:28 Thanks: 68 Thanked: 210 times in 62 posts]

#225233

The site looks good, and has lots of content. Good work!
Here is a cache component that works really good.
Good luck with the site. 🙂

[thetravellingdr Friend thetravellingdrJoin date: March 2007Posts: 24Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#225270

<em>@MuffinDCC 22208 wrote:</em><blockquote>Wow, that is a highly extensive site. Great to see you using the typography of the template to a great effect :)</blockquote>

It helps when the template makes it so easy. Many thanks for your comments. 😀

[thetravellingdr Friend thetravellingdrJoin date: March 2007Posts: 24Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#225272

<em>@instantinlaw 22215 wrote:</em><blockquote>The site looks good, and has lots of content. Good work!
Here is a cache component that works really good.
Good luck with the site. :)</blockquote>

instantinlaw: Thanks for your comments. I haven’t come across the caching component before… does it help with the speed?
Thanks
Iain

[swemmel Friend swemmelJoin date: February 2006Posts: 794Downloads:34Uploads:53 Thanks: 36 Thanked: 64 times in 1 posts]

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TheTravellingDr;22263instantinlaw: Thanks for your comments. I haven’t come across the caching component before… does it help with the speed?
Thanks
Iain

First of all, a very nice and clean website. Excellent work.

Second, about a caching component, I don’t know about the component pointed out by Bill, but I use this one (http://fun.kubera.org/content/view/20/45/lang,iso-8859-1/) on my Xenia-site and I must say it works pretty good.

Kind Regards,
Peter

[instantinlaw Friend instantinlawJoin date: February 2007Posts: 1646Downloads:6Uploads:28 Thanks: 68 Thanked: 210 times in 62 posts]

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TheTravellingDr;22263instantinlaw: Thanks for your comments. I haven’t come across the caching component before… does it help with the speed?
Thanks
Iain

Without the cache component my site takes upwards of 2 miniuts to fully load. With the cache component, it takes about 3/4 second.
BIG improvement, and the one I linked to is free too. 🙂

[instantinlaw Friend instantinlawJoin date: February 2007Posts: 1646Downloads:6Uploads:28 Thanks: 68 Thanked: 210 times in 62 posts]

#225377

swemmel;22266First of all, a very nice and clean website. Excellent work.

Second, about a caching component, I don’t know about the component pointed out by Bill, but I use this one (http://fun.kubera.org/content/view/20/45/lang,iso-8859-1/) on my Xenia-site and I must say it works pretty good.

Kind Regards,
Peter

I’m going to have to look into that one too Peter.
Thanks for the link. 🙂

[thetravellingdr Friend thetravellingdrJoin date: March 2007Posts: 24Downloads:0Uploads:0]

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<em>@instantinlaw 22389 wrote:</em><blockquote>Without the cache component my site takes upwards of 2 miniuts to fully load. With the cache component, it takes about 3/4 second.
BIG improvement, and the one I linked to is free too. :)</blockquote>

WOW – ok certainly worth a look. many thanks

[Michael Casha Friend Michael CashaJoin date: September 2014Posts: 2561Downloads:1Uploads:32 Thanks: 41 Thanked: 119 times in 1 posts]

#225389

Very nice website, well done!

[ncrc Friend ncrcJoin date: May 2007Posts: 43Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#225421

TheTravellingDr: Also check out Artio JoomSEF as a good search engine friendly URL creator!

http://www.artio.net/en/joomla-extensions/artio-joomsef

As for Caching Component I am using JAccelerator! Easy as IRCMaxwell’s if not easier.

Ya silly me! Thanks instaninlaw!

[instantinlaw Friend instantinlawJoin date: February 2007Posts: 1646Downloads:6Uploads:28 Thanks: 68 Thanked: 210 times in 62 posts]

#225435

ncrc;22447TheTravellingDr: Also check out Artio JoomSEF as a caching component, it’s easy as pie to implement, configure and use! My personal Favorite and FREE!

http://www.artio.net/en/joomla-extensions/artio-joomsef

ncrc,
Isn’t JoomSEF an SEO component?

[thetravellingdr Friend thetravellingdrJoin date: March 2007Posts: 24Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#226495

<em>@ncrc 22447 wrote:</em><blockquote>TheTravellingDr: Also check out Artio JoomSEF as a caching component, it’s easy as pie to implement, configure and use! My personal Favorite and FREE!

http://www.artio.net/en/joomla-extensions/artio-joomsef</blockquote>

<em>@instantinlaw 22465 wrote:</em><blockquote>ncrc,
Isn’t JoomSEF an SEO component?</blockquote>

I’m interested in the SEO components as well – do they help to tidy up the URLs?

CHeers
IAin

[mithrandir1974 Friend mithrandir1974Join date: May 2007Posts: 4Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#226767

Great job. I like it!

But:

In MS internet explorer there is a small white vertical line in the header…

[thetravellingdr Friend thetravellingdrJoin date: March 2007Posts: 24Downloads:0Uploads:0]

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<em>@mithrandir1974 24049 wrote:</em><blockquote>

In MS internet explorer there is a small white vertical line in the header…</blockquote>

Arghhhhhh!!!! The white line – it’s the bane of my life. It’s in firefox as well. I’m working on it but it’s proving elusive >:(

Thanks for your other comments though 😀

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