As part of our commitment to providing our clients with excellent service in a timely manner, Mango Tree Media has hired Levi Carter. Levi interned with us in summer of 2010 and has since graduated with a degree in Computer Science - New Media/Systems. Levi brings a great deal of skill and talent to the team in the areas of testing, programming, research, and more. 

Mango Tree Media founder James Friesen will be one of the scheduled speakers at Joomla Day Midwest 2011 in Milwaukee, WI. James has been asked to present a workship on Joomla Template Frameworks at the Joomla Day event in November. This will be mark the first time James has been asked to speak at one of these events which bring Joomla aficionados from all around the midwest and speakers from all over the US and Europe. Check out the event schedule to see the bios of the other speakers, many of which James considers friends from interacting at previous conferences.

As I sat on the train on my way home to Indianapolis from the Joomla  “J and Beyond 2011” Conference in Krekrade, Netherlands, I was thinking about the weekend’s experience and how many people who worked with Joomla missed out on an amazing experience.  If your business is related in any way to Joomla, here are the top 5 reasons you should attend and a Joomla Conference, and why I definitely plan to be there again next year:

In March of 2010, Mango Tree Media began a partnership with dioscouri.com that we are very excited about.  Dioscouri is a boutique, Manhattan-based design firm specializing in PHP and MySQL, with a particular emphasis on the open source PHP package, Joomla!  They are makers of several custom Joomla! extensions such as: JUGA, Billets, and Tienda.  We look forward to working on projects with them in the future that will continue to enhance the Joomla! CMS experience.

RE/MAX Mountain Aire had an existing website that needed a major graphic design and content organization overhaul. We provided them with a much more modern design, and then worked through each page of their content to make it easier to find, more concise, and funneled people through to the site's main goals.

GBIM is a non-profit, Christian organization with a presence all over the world and a large and active donor base. They had contracted another company to create a Joomla-based site, but the design, content, and layout of the site just didn't have the level of quality and professionalism that they were looking for. 

GBIM originally contracted us to manage updates and Joomla security on their old site, but when the time to pull the trigger on the complete site overhaul, Mango Tree was ready to take them to the next level.

We worked with them to create a vastly expanded site map, did a complete graphic overhaul, and then created a searchable database for their many service opportunities. Finally we completely revamped their donation section, allowing donors to use a cart system and integrating with GBIM's credit card processor.

Perhaps the most satisfying part of this project was that we turned over a system to GBIM (and provided necessary training)so that they can update and manage using their own employees without the need for a dedicated web developer.