Gregory Maassen: using Joomla for simple publishing and document downloads

Posted by: Qasim Virjee on Tuesday, 27 January 2009

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Though it may not win any awards for innovative design, development consultant and Rotterdam School of Management professor Gregory Maassen's personal website is an excellent example of how Joomla provides a ton of accessible functionality.

developmentwork.net was built in Joomla 1.5x with a suite of free/Open Source extensions by Gregory himself. As its main function was to serve as a repository for his publications, docman served well in easily creating an interface for organising file downloads and offering them up within articles as referenced links.

Some info about the site from Gregory's write-up on the Joomla forums:

It serves as an archive and introduction to my academic publications, and management experience with business development and judicial reform projects, legislative initiatives and educational programs in developing countries such as Afghanistan, Macedonia and Armenia.

The audience of the site is relatively limited:

Students and other course participants who like to download materials;

Other professionals who work in developing countries who may want to read some of my work and/or get inspiration to set up their own sites for their projects; and showcase what is possible with Joomla.

Its definately worth checking out the site and referring to his post on the forums describing the process by which he came to the right mix of extensions to create this site.

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