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Description: Kantelje is a non-profit organisation that promotes the knowledge about the traditional art of lace from Lier (Lierse kant) worldwide. The organisation organises workshops, exhibitions and publishes books on this subject.Case Study: In the beginning we used a Frontpage website. As we wanted to start up a newsletter, keep a calendar and keep the website more easily up-to-date, we decided to explore better alternatives. We tried a whole bunch of tools but ran into problems quite frequently. As we are not tech savvy and do not have enough funding to have someone set up a site for us, we were more than happy to find Joomla.
A first experiment with one of the latest Joomla 1 series proved that it was extremely easy to set up a site, easy to find suitable extensions and even easier to explain to a non-technical audience on how to subscribe and contribute to the website.
The current website is based on Joomla 1.5 with a SiteGround template, which we could easily adapt by substituting the default logo with our own. We then added content, links and news based on our old website.
We implemented a nice-looking plugin to display our booklets and pictures and integrated Google calendars for our students and lace-related activities.
We noticed that our Joomla site has been trouble-free as opposed to our old website, updating was easy and the installation became faster with each release!
