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[nsak Friend nsakJoin date: June 2011Posts: 182Downloads:5Uploads:13 Thanks: 55 Thanked: 5 times in 1 posts]

#191054

We develop engineering sites, sort of number crunchers carrying out various engineering calculations. Till now we have built them as php/ mysql apps and have kept their development separate, from other typical business web sites built exclusively on joomla.

Recently we became a member to joomlart and are very happy with the quality of the templates. While looking forward to upgrade our membership it crossed our mind whether we should move the engineering support activity to joomla/ joomlart to benefit from this vast and high quality templete/ component repository.

My question is a pretty broad one: Which templates should we rather look into as best options to support this background number crunching apps? What should our main selection criterion be in such cases?

thanks, Nikos

[tfosnom Friend tfosnomJoin date: October 2010Posts: 742Downloads:0Uploads:31 Thanks: 145 Thanked: 200 times in 94 posts]

#507689

Hey Nickos
Best to give us some idea of the final presentation/look you’re after. Do you have an existing site with the apps available. Do you just want a gallery of “apps” that is, screenshots of app in action then use that as a live link to the page showing a working app? … Is a responsive site a must? is customer interaction allowed ?

I’d probably suggest JA Argo for a relatively easy to customise site starter.
Shannon

[nsak Friend nsakJoin date: June 2011Posts: 182Downloads:5Uploads:13 Thanks: 55 Thanked: 5 times in 1 posts]

#507692

Thanks Shannon

In terms of presentation and standard functionality I’m sure there is a great lot to benefit from joomlart. This is the main idea. You can see typical sites at http://dt.energywarden.net, http://oh-res.building-21.net/ which take quite some, rather uneeded in our days, time to develop

1. “Customers” normally need to enter data yes; sometimes a lot of them
2. Responsiveness is not so important although would add some value in some cases

What I see as most essential is the ability to run a lot of code in the background and return results back to forms ,etc. Now where this is best done, in scripts, articles, etc. I am uncertain. Also, I understand this is not so much a matter of template; I do however wonder if there is any template/ approach more fit for these kind of apps.

Nikos

[Saguaros Moderator SaguarosJoin date: September 2014Posts: 31405Downloads:237Uploads:471 Thanks: 845 Thanked: 5346 times in 4964 posts]

#507835

Hi guys,
@nikos: our templates are based on Joomla CMS so the first – important thing is that your engineering apps must support and work well with Joomla so that it can work with our templates. BTW, you can try with one of recent templates like JA Brisk, JA Beranis, …

Or you can select another one from showcase here: http://www.joomlart.com/joomla/templates

Regards

[nsak Friend nsakJoin date: June 2011Posts: 182Downloads:5Uploads:13 Thanks: 55 Thanked: 5 times in 1 posts]

#508027

Hi Saguaros,

of course I know that joomlaart templates lie on top of joomla!

Let me put it this way. My ideal template would have at its core several tabs each of which would open a form where users would enter data, while in one of them they would receive results. Would that ring any bell?

thanks, nikos

[Saguaros Moderator SaguarosJoin date: September 2014Posts: 31405Downloads:237Uploads:471 Thanks: 845 Thanked: 5346 times in 4964 posts]

#508150

Hi Nikos,

Please check out showcase for our Joomla templates and select your desired one: http://www.joomlart.com/joomla/templates

and in order to make your apps work in our template, it must function as an extension of Joomla and supports the appropriate Joomla version which template is used with.

Regards

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