Posted by: Qasim Virjee on Thursday, 25 October 2007

http://www.joomlajobs.net

Originally launched towards the end of 2006, Joomlajobs was the result of us at Design Guru being fed up with all the junky bloated websites for posting jobs - both in situations where we needed subcontractors/freelancers for projects as well as when we where looking for work, it was just a headache - one that we were committed to making dissappear.

The plan was simple; create a really easy to use website that lets people post either long-term or short-term positions for project work. We called those 'jobs' and 'gigs' and set out to make the site using Joomla 1.0x and Mosets Tree - a 3rd party extension for directory listings used at J!ED, among other places. In addition to just posting listings, we also conceived a community developing around professional Joomla work and wanted to support it - so the original site used Community Builder as well.

Though we managed to build a decent site, after a few months or trying to redesign it using various other components, we couldn't avoid the fact that Joomla just wasn't the right platform for the site's functionality... which resulted in it being offline for a while. Well, it took a while to make the decision but we ended up completely building a new Joomlajobs from scratch using Drupal! Yes yes, many Joomla die-hards will balk at that but heck, at the end of the day we've made an extremely powerful listings site that's still Open Source, easy to use and modular; so we can add functionality in time as its community requires!

If you work with Joomla as a professional freelancer, development firm, designer, employer or anything else, make sure you pay a visit to http://www.joomlajobs.net and:

sign up for your free account ! :)

Together we can build a community of people committed to working well with Joomla! :)

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posted by g0nz0 on 2007-11-07 Building a Joomla-jobs site with Drupal, are you crazy? :- Quote

Drupal? posted by Dan Riefstahl on 2008-08-13 You did what you needed to do. I signed up, but noticed it isn't really very busy. Any ideas on how to drive more traffic? Joomlancers is always so busy. I rarely bid on jobs because everyone and their brother bids and at prices so low I can't compete. Quote

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