Joomla Portal Development Solution by Attune Infocom

About PickARide.com

PickARide.com is the leading transportation referral service company. Pickaride is into servicing personal needs and the corporate business world. Pickaride is servicing many clients over the past years, from internationally known celebrities to business men, to visiting guests from out of town and wedding parties looking for the special elegance by professionally referral services.

PickARide.com is open 24 hours a day; seven days a week and 365 days a year to meet the scheduling needs of the busy corporate client or the special event requiring flexibility. PickARide.com provides referral services for any sort of occasion.

“Very good guys to work with - they are always there and they work hard...and looking forward to doing more projects with them.”
- Michael Habashy

Business Case

Pickaride wants a perfect User Interface for searching the nearest transportation medium, whether it is a self driver or individual driver or offering service by transportation companies by just a search of a PinCode in USA using Google map display. PickARide wanted to give a social touch to the user’s profile to make it more interactive and interesting to reach to end client and individual driver.

Technology : Joomla 1.7, JomSocial, PHP – MySQL, LAMP, JQuery and CSS

Integrating JomSocial with Joomla and Utilizing Google Map Integration is the heart of The PickARide.com Project.

Solution from Attune Infocom

Attune Infocom has written and optimized the code of search to make it perfect to fetch the results in fastest speed on PickARide.com. The search results are showing the whole address on Google map and people can even drag and locate it to their exact location. The search can start with single parameter of PINCODE or can be extended with many parameters like, event, distance and transportation type. It also contains advance search option like, languages preferences, vehicle type, gender, amenities provided.

On other side, this whole system has loaded with JomSocial to add the social networking features to know the individual preferences. We have implemented functionality of enabling mobile text messages to inform about the nearest ride search and call back alerts. This system has extended its coverage by offering state wise ride coverage search option.

For custom Joomla development, please contact 

Mustufa Rahi

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Email: mustufa.rahi@gmail.com

Phone: +91-93767 05152

Portal Development Best Practices

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Development Process Flow

Attune Infocom follows best practices for development of open source portal with the team of industry experts and deliver the solution within committed time line.

9 Steps - Why do you choose Attune Infocom as a development partner?

Inception and Scoping

The project is conceptualized with Technical Architect, the functionality is discussed with Domain Experts and the list of requirement is laid out.

Work Order

Once the scope, technical feasibility, development platform, terms and prices are negotiated and finalized, we will send you our work order and Pro-Forma Invoice to get started.

Documentation & Planning

We create a Business Requirement Specification Document, System Requirement Specification, wireframes and a project plan with detailed milestones and deliverables.

Design & Prototyping

Design mockups are created as per the approved wireframes at this stage and sent to you for your approval.

Programming & Development

The development work begins with making the project in to reality as per the planning.

Client Review & Revision

Regular demos are given as per project plan and milestones achivables and your valuable feedback is taken. Changes, if any, are made as per the scope.

Testing

Every module is tested regorously by experienced tester considering standard of code and cross browser compatibility to ensure quality, usability, relaiablity and scalibility.

Delivery & Acceptance

The fine points are worked on. The project is ready for deployment at this stage.

Ongoing Support

The project goes in to maintenance contract & support will be availed for upgrade and make it up to date all the time.

Contact me today to discuss your requirement and project.

Mustufa Rahi

Cell : +91 93767 05152

Mail : mustufa.rahi@gmail.com

Joomla – JomSocial Integration with extensive search functionality

How Attune Infocom delights client with vast Joomla Development & Customization Experience

Attune Infocom has started its CMS development with popular PHP framework Joomla and now it is equiped with a team of experts on Joomla with experience for design and development of hundreds of projects in Joomla CMS. Joomla is used all over the world to design and develop a simple and personal home pages to complex corporate web applications. It is build on modular structure and you have the options to upgrade as per your needs. Here I am going to share utilities of Joomla for one of our best customization and developed project integrating JomSocial with Joomla and utilizing Google Map integration as a heart of the project – www.pickaride.com

This project has utilized Joomla features like user management, image library, jomsocial plugin integration, a rich content management and powerful mysql database management for quick result on search query.

Friendly User Interface for www.pickaride.com

Pickaride has a beautiful concept for searching the nearest transportation medium, whether it be a self driver or individual driver or offering service by transportation companies. Team Attune has developed a complete search functionality considering the PINCODE of the respective search person and the saved profile of driver's location pincode. Attune Infocom has written and optimized the code of search to make it perfect to fetch the results in fastest speed. The search results are showing the whole address on google map and people can even drag and locate it to their exact location. The search can start with single parameter of PINCODE or can be extended with many parameters like, event, distance and transportation type. It also contains advance search option like, languages preferences, vehicle type, gender, amenities provided.

On other side, this whole system has loaded with JomSocial to add the social networking features to know the individual preferences. Pickaride has functionality of enabling mobile text messages to inform about the nearest ride search and call back alerts. This system has extended its coverage by offering state wise ride coverage search option.

The web application is live and you can start searching your ride...

Feel free to contact me for customization and development of your Joomla CMS web :

Mustufa Rahi

Business Development Manager

E-mail : mustufa.rahi@gmail.com

Cell : +91-93767 05152

Liferay Portal Application Development for Intranet

Liferay Portal Migration for Stannah

Executive Summary

The Stannah is a giants corporation with multiple business verticals having thousands of users connecting through Intranet portal. Stannah was serving its intranet portal using Websphere portal technology since many years now. Attune Infocom came in to contact with Stannah offering a feature rich open source Portal framework and introduce Liferay as a perfect match to their requirement. Team Attune has taken an initiative to look at existing portal build on Websphere and developed similar functionality in to Liferay Portal customization and development efforts.

About Stannah

The Stannah Group is a long standing British, family-owned company with members of the Stannah family still very much hands on in running the business. Over the years we have developed a reputation for honesty, integrity and commitment to the quality customers have come to expect across all our products.

First Look - Stannah Intranet Portal

Technologies used in project

Portal : Liferay Community Edition 6.0.6 | SSO : Spenego | Database : MySQL 5
Domain : Active Directory | Development Tool : Eclipse | Web Server : Tomcat

Stannah - Intranet Portal achieved following advantages

Problem Statement 1 : News Portlet, Sports and Social
- The last 4 news items displayed when click on a link to get the details about the news item.
- Hovering over the image to enlarge it, users are allowed to add comments to the news item and a count of the number of comments will appear on the summary view on the homepage.
- Click event on the back to news list on the top right it will take to a list of all the news items added.
- To get to the above screen from using the menu on the home page or by clicking on the "All News" link.

Problem Statement 2 - Careers
- Careers are added and a summary view is available the same as the news, however users are not allowed to add comments against the career requirements.

Problem Statement 3 – Blogs
- When clicking blogs, it display on normal page but required to display separate page with maximized stage.

Problem Statement 4 - Restaurant Menu
- When clicking on Restaurant link from the Home menu the below page will appear, only the canteen Manager (Group) will be allowed to add / delete items to the menu.
- The links on the right are links to either word or PDF documents.

Problem Statement 5 - Discounts and Offers
- This provides a list of discounts to other companies products.

Implementation Success using Liferay
- The user can create the news, sports, social, restaurant, blog, career, discount and offer page content from the liferay web content management of type news.
- Create template for filling the news content in the web content management.
- Use asset publisher portlet to populate news type web content and career type web content, the portlet will be modified to imitate current news functionality and UI.
- Using this user add comment for specified news
- Customize Liferay message board for blog functionality
- Use of Asset publisher portlet to display the recently message from message board portlet in Blog
- Create a portlet called Restaurant portlet. Which will have add / delete button for create and delete item. Clicking add will take the Canteen manager liferay web content creation.

Drupal CMS at its best with Ubercart E-commerce

An effective E-commerce Ubercart solution by an Enterprise Content Mangement System - Drupal

As the leading PHP based open source content publishing system for building database-driven websites and social communities, Drupal offers an easy and cost effective option for you to consider for your next web project. As an open source CMS which authorizes to develop completely scalable solutions which is written on programmatic language PHP and database MySQL. The features of Drupal are easy to use and offer the facility of managing large amount of data. Drupal module facilitates to active the content management system, blog, forum, newsletter, pictures galleries.

I would like to elaborate more on the extra features and capabilities of the Ubercart.

We, at Attune Infocom has recently worked on a Drupal CMS and Ubercart integration project and our first feeling goes with the great experiences our team has gained by Ubercart integration. Ubercart is an e-commerce suite specially developed for Drupal and designed considering the end user focus to play around with : store configuration, product and catalog creation, and order administration. Managing the front end with Drupal - Ubercart, all major systems are configurable and integrate with the standard Drupal systems (node, taxonomy, user, etc.). Going to back end, the administrator got ease to manage the settings pages and order administration pages.

Ubercart comes with out of the box features to offer solutions for stores that sell goods, product downloads, and site memberships. We have customize Ubercart to make it compatible selling service type products and many more thing like, applying coupon code, customize selection of units, calendar funtionality by product, order formats customization and user management in admin side.

Features of Ubercart :

- Configurable product catalog includes catalog pages
- Flexible product creation with product classes
- Multiple product image support
- Flexible product attributes system
- Basic product stock level tracking and notification
- Single page checkout
- Simple order processing with workflow for automated order processing system
- Integrated payment system that acts as a bridge between acceptable payment methods (check, credit card, purchase order, etc.) and payment gateways (CyberSource, Authorize.net, PayPal, etc.)
- Shipping integration with UPS, FedEx, USPS at ease
- Extensive Reports for management - Sales, product, and customer reports

Feel free to contact me for setting up Drupal CMS and Ubercart store for your on line business :

Mustufa Rahi
Business Development Manager

E-mail : mustufa.rahi@gmail.com
Cell : +91-93767 05152

Liferay Theme Development for Telecom United

About Telecom United
 

Telecom United is a community of telecommunications professionals who choose to work together under one banner, forming franchises or virtual companies by sharing resources, skills and networking to create all the benefits of a large international company whilst remaining personal, efficient and leaving the profit in the hands of those that produce it. Around the globe independent telecommunications professionals have organized to share resources and skills. - Motivated professionals and suppliers leverage their membership to benefit themselves and their clients. Around the globe motivated independent telecommunications professionals are sharing resources and skills, leveraging this network to benefit themselves and their clients. Telecom United is for Qualified telecommunications professionals in sales, a technical field or in a supply chain, Click here to investigate the opportunities.

Business Case

 

Telecom United is an emerging company and looking for a Portal / CMS solution using open source frameworks. United Telecom has choose its platform as one of the best open source Portal and CMS Java framework of Liferay Community Edition. Telecom United has a great design UI for the front page elements. The need for this UI to be developed in Liferay theme.

Solution from Attune Infocom

Attune Infocom has closely work on the needs / requirement of Telecom United and provided them solution by developing and integrating a UI-front page and internal page theme in Liferay Community Edition. The experts of Attune Infocom has perfectly integrated all the aspects of United Telecom and apply CSS and HTML for its beautiful User Interface in Liferay. The work is not too easy also, as client needs few of the portlet to be used from out of box available portlet from Liferay Community Edition. All these visualization happen with the effort of Attune Infocom!!!

Conclusion

Attune Infocom team of Liferay Experts has successfully completed this project as per client expectation and client is deligthed with the tasks performed by Team Attune. We would like also to have a close look at client's feedback and comment.

Client Comments

“The guys at Attune know there subject, are fast and responsive. It is not often you meet real professionals. ” — Mike

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Experts on Open Source Content Management Systems

Experts on Open Source Content Management Systems

Create, Edit / Update and Improve your Web Content with CMS

With CMS, Update your online business information with ease.

In current scenario, The world is getting smaller with the highly accepted connectivity with web. People visit the websites to get information, but does it have the most current information? The most accurate? The most relevant? And do you get a backlog of content waiting to be uploaded? If the answers aren’t what you’d like them to be, it’s time to get update with easy update framework, we call it Content Management System.

What is a Content Management System?

A content management system (CMS) is a web application that lets you add content (formatted text, images, movies, files, PDFs, etc.) to your website without having to edit offline and upload via FTP. One of the main advantages is that multiple users can add, edit and remove content online (including entire pages), so your website can be updated from anywhere in the world – with little technical knowledge required.

CMS Benefits at a glance

The other advantages of using a CMS include the following:
- The manager of the CMS can give different rights and permissions to different employees or outsourced suppliers, so your content is secure and a hierarchy of command and sign-off can be implemented.
- Various people from inside and outside your organization can collaborate on a single project at the same time.
- No knowledge of HTML, FTP or coding is required. Text can be edited by anyone familiar with a word processor in a WYSIWYG environment.
- Changes can be tracked and older versions can be reverted to.
- Errors such as typos and bad links can be corrected remotely the moment they’re spotted – with instant effect

Next is What?
Contact us and get your website migrated to the world class best Open Source CMS

Any website that is growing or requires regular updating will benefit from an Open Source CMS. Attune Infocom has proven Expertise on Open Source CMS guarantees your savings in time and the improvement in accuracy and relevance can work wonders for your business’s online appearance, and the collaborative spirit in all its contributors can even improve quality through their sense of ownership and pride. You’ll be surprised how easily it can be implemented, so let’s talk about the best way to manage your content.