Norcalsolar.org approached us to rebuild their website originally built around a custom PHP script. Before contacting us they had tried to build a new version of their site in house using the Joomla CMS.

Upon reviewing their initial attempt we decided to rebuild the site using a brand new Joomla installation but we tried to maintain the same color scheme they had developed in house while polishing the graphical elelments to a more professional level.

The site has a fair amount of custom PHP scripting that we have been slowly porting into the Joomla administration area for easier administration.

Some of these scripts pre-dated their new site and we had to integrate them in the Joomla environment while still maintaining the site's look and feel.

The site is currently using a custom version of the Community Builder component adapted as a business listing module. We also built a new donor and member recruiting area designed to work with their existing paper-based workflow.

In the coming months the site will move to a dedicated server we have deployed and we will add CiviCRM to the featureset as well as a more comprehensive Directory system and a newsletter component.