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| Solution | Advanced Content Management • Directory |
AirportDining.net helps take the unknown out of airport food. It is the Ultimate Source for airport restaurants and airport dining options.
AirportDining.net is all about traveler reviews and recommendation for airport restaurants covering 100 of the busiest airports around the world. We were looking for platform where travelers would be able to list and rate airport restaurants; include their photos, reviews, comments and additional related information. On top of that we have site editors who make editorial reviews as they pass through airports around the world. We also wanted those editorial reviews to be listed in addition to user reviews. Since we cover airports around the world our user base is very international and we were looking for a very easy to use review structure.
JReviews is great review and rating system and it simply was a perfect fit for airportdining.net since the entire site is based on traveler reviews, ratings and recommendations. When we used the demo we noticed that it gave us a lot of flexibility and also provided the opportunity for user to have a great experience. User friendliness of the system was a major requirement for us and JReviews met this requirement.
We use JReviews as the user review structure where airports dining options around the world are listed and rated. Users are able to write reviews or simply include additional photos to existing airport eateries. If they choose they can make their own recommendations and add new airport eateries. If the user is adding a new listing to our database (adding new airport restaurant) they are able to provide information about pricing, location, opening hours, service, ambience, kid friendliness and also whether they serve alcohol. JReviews allows other users to search for these attributes in advance search if they are looking for that particular information. Simply put, JReviews allowed us to become an information powerhouse on airport restaurants and airport dining options.
JReviews allows us to collect and manage information about airport restaurants for more than 100 busiest airports around the world. In addition, it allows us to administer large number of user reviews, new airport restaurant and photo submissions. We also have to mention the great support system provided by JReviews. They were prompt getting back to us and addressing our issues. We appreciate JReviews flexibility and support as our web site is getting more user submissions and reviews each day.
| Solution | Advanced Content Management • Consumer Products |
The World's Leading Single Serve Coffee Guide
Aromacup.com was launched in October 2006 to share our love and passion about Single Serve Coffee. Two years later we realized that we needed a platform which would allow us and our members and experts to submit exclusive reviews, comments and pictures about Coffee products. In addition to reviews we were also looking for a component that would allow us to better organize Joomla articles.
JReviews was a perfect solution at that time for us because it was able to do exactly what we were looking for (organize reviews, articles with multiple layouts). After I started working with JReviews I knew right away we made the right choice. We used Joomla already so it was very easy for us to start with JReviews. Since it was totally new for us we needed to learn a lot of things. So we used the Support Portal and Forum all the time and the response time and support quality was unbelievable. Since Aromacup.com was no longer a “Hobby” website, it was critical for us to have quick support in case something happened. Besides great support we really like the Documentation section where you can find everything you need to know about JReviews. Also integration with other components was very important for us.
We use JReviews for everything. Beside Reviews and Comments we use JReviews to create a unique layout for every section. This allows us to optimize every landing page with minimum effort. For example “Coffee Coupons Section” and “Coffee Guides Section” have totally different layout, related articles, links, etc. With Custom Fields and Themes you can create basically anything.
First of all there’s nothing like JReviews around. I think JReviews is a Gold Standard in this category. It’s doesn’t matter if you are want to use JReviews for a business or yourself. You will receive the best support and the best component which will allow you to create successful website in any category.
| Solution | Advanced Content Management • Consumer Products • Entertainment |
An editorial staff and user driven review site for movies, blu-ray, digital media, video games and other technology.
We were looking for something that had a very intricate backend that allowed for a relational database. We got something that helped us build very detailed databases and that allowed us (through little effort) to make our site more searchable and accessible to the outside world while allowing users to add their own opinions. We could not have been happier with JReviews.
JReviews is, well, for reviews! Since we mainly do reviews it seemed like a natural fit. We had certain requirements - configurable field types, cross searching, weighted scoring tight integration with the CMS(Joomla). Again, we got more than we anticipated originally! In addition, having the ability to use the built in thickbox for images without an additional plug ins is a great plus and the templates are well commented and easy to adjust.
We use it for everything. We currently have over 700+ reviews and it compliments those needs. Our Frontpage uses JReviews modules in three module positions to highlight the newest reviews from the primary categories we review on - Games, DVDS and Anime. It also is used to generate our section pages and is used within the content using a JReviews template that has been modified to allow for tabbed reviews with related items using sliding drop downs. This and various other little bits help make our site look and feel professional. It created a very solid backbone that established an organized system that works and integrates related articles together using the fields configured within JReviews. In addition, our authors don't even need to really think about what's been set up in the backend. From the front end the submission process is seamless.
First and foremost, the support from Alejandro has been unrivaled. He dedicates himself to clarifying any issues and correcting them. Service goes a long way and it shows. Now, to the beef. It fits our mold for our review site perfectly. It allows us to do so many things that we didn't feel Joomla could provide. It allows us to do a lot of relationships between fields. JReviews submission interface works well within Joomla's interface and allows for our authors to work on what they need to do, submit reviews.
| Solution | Advanced Content Management |
Boutique travel agency specializing in honeymoons and exotic travel.
The site was for a boutique travel agency that has a lot of expertise in exotic travel – but little to no expertise in website maintenance. We had to make a self-service site that allowed the agents to easily enter information about resorts and travel specials. There was also the desire to allow users to tag their favorites.
We needed more control over the visual presentation of information than Joomla alone could provide, as well as easy input forms so that the agents could easily create new content items of different types. JReviews fit the bill perfectly. We were able to use JReviews for just about everything: the main list and detail views, as well as custom modules. Although the client ultimately opted not to have a directory of resorts, it was easy to build. Ironically, we did not use the reviews function! It was the CCK functionality that attracted us to JReviews.
JReviews is the essential component on the site. It drives the main content – resort overviews and specials – as well as the modules.
JReviews extends Joomla to make it a truly robust system. We really appreciate that JReviews builds on Joomla’s native section/category/articles rather than creating a secondary content repository; by doing so, we’re able to use the same content with other 3rd-party extensions. The templating system makes it possible to create any type of view or module, taking Joomla from a simple and basic CMS to one that is absolutely configurable and customizable.
| Solution | Advanced Content Management • Directory |
Hooked is a revolutionary new social channel that allows anglers to locate and share the best fishing spots in Norway, using both the web portal and companion iPhone application.
When our client came to us all the way from Norway, they were looking for a solution to build a location-based fishing portal to help anglers locate the best spots to catch fish in Norway. Their requirements were that users could create multi-media listings describing the best fishing spots and most importantly, could tag them to a very specific rural geolocation. So we knew we would need a powerful CCK, with front-end creation abilities, and an accurate mapping feature. They were also looking for something that would integrate nicely with community software like JomSocial. At HATHWAY, it is our job to analyze these requirements and apply the most appropriate open source software for their needs.
JReviews was chosen to develop the MVC for our client and prove to their investors that the concept could work. In order to custom develop this web property, we expected the development cycle to be at least four times as long and equally more expensive. Core JReviews had about 70% of the features we needed for the initial build of the site, leaving approximately 30% of the features to be custom programmed. As a CCK, JReviews is as good as it gets. Everyone on the HATHWAY tech team loves working with it because of its robust functionality out of the box, and ease of customization. The Geomaps add-on extends far beyond any of the other Joomla CCK’s, making it an obvious choice for this project.
JReviews is the primary platform in which users can create fishing spots, catch reports, blogs and post tips and tricks for other anglers. JReviews is literally the backbone of the site and provides most of the utility for our users. Our client is ecstatic with the mapping abilities of the site and how the software was applied for such a unique web property concept.
The key advantage was being able to take the site to market much faster than if we were to have custom developed the software for our client. This initial build will help them test their features and gain valuable feedback from their target audience, so when the time does come to build a new version from scratch, the improvements will stem directly from their users. Both our clients and our staff were happy with the decision to leverage JReviews as the primary software system for the site.
| Solution | Advanced Content Management • Social Networking |
rugbyUNITED.com is a social network and news community for rugby players and fans worldwide. The site allows users to share news articles and match reports from their local regions, join groups, discuss issues on forums, share photos, and have user profiles with private messaging. The site employs the best collection of Joomla! extensions, including jReviews, Jomsocial, Jomcomment, Kunena, Eventlist, and HWDvideoshare.
The site needed to employ a very simple process for users to upload their own local news, attach pictures, and categorize their items into a complex searchable and sortable vertical and horizontal hierarchy. The site needed to accomplish all of this without sacrificing design or security and not requiring extra administrator work verifying and editing items. The final requirement was a tight integration with the community features of Jomsocial and Jomcomment.
JReviews was initially used because of it's ability to add additional horizontal categorization functionality (virtual categories) to the standard vertical hierarchy of joomla (sections and categories). It shortly became apparent that it's advanced templating capabilities and override functionality make it a very extensible solution. The final piece of the puzzle is it's out-of-the-box integration with Jomsocial.
JReviews is being used to allow our users, all of whom are members of individual athletic teams, to post their own news stories and photos in a specific category and section. However, it also allows them to tag each article with a number of virtual categories. These virtual categories are important because a reader might be interested in a specific category (college news), as well as all news in their region across multiple categories (Northwest college news, Northwest high school news, Northwest youth news, etc.). These virtual categories span the traditional Joomla categories and allow for click-to-search functionality by region, team, division, and other important features of the news articles. A number of custom templates for articles and modules were also built to allow for a more traditional news website layout with leading articles and links to additional articles in each category, all on one page. JReviews is also tightly integrated with Jomsocial, showing author avatars with links to their profiles on articles, lists of users' articles on their profiles, and notifications in the Jomsocial activity feed any time a user posts or edits an article.
The key advantages to jReviews are easy to list because it has few rivals among Joomla! extensions. The support is first class, the template code is transparent enough for even rookies to understand, and both the backend and frontend user interfaces are exceedingly powerful while remaining easy to understand for all site users. It is an abolutely critical component and does its job smoothly.
| Solution | Advanced Content Management • Consumer Products |
TiemMyScarf.com is a boutique e-commerce site that specializes in scarves.
The site had a very simple set of requirements: videos about how to tie a scarf; an ecommerce boutique (for which we used Virtuemart); and a blog.
We wanted to create a video library of ways to tie a scarf, but we were unhappy with other solutions: the extensions that are specifically built for handling videos did not provide other features like allowing us to create very customized module views, add additional custom field information, etc. Also, they didn't leverage Joomla's core content section/category structure. We chose JReviews because it gave us all the flexibility we needed, plus the ability to create very custom layouts for both modules and core component views. By creating a field to reference a YouTube video, we got the best of all worlds: working within Joomla's familiar content structure, but with more control over layout and extra fields.
JReviews is basically being used as a "vlog", a video blog. We will eventually also use it for reviews in the ecommerce area but using Everywhere with the Virtuemart integration.
JReviews extends Joomla to make it a truly robust system. We really appreciate that JReviews builds on Joomla's native section/category/articles rather than creating a secondary content repository; by doing so, we’re able to use the same content with other 3rd-party extensions. The templating system makes it possible to create any type of view or module, taking Joomla from a simple and basic CMS to one that is absolutely configurable and customizable.
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