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http://www.joomlajobs.net
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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:
Together we can build a community of people committed to working well with Joomla! :)
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why joomla? is mainly contributed to by Qasim Virjee - the Principal @ Design Guru 
