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Description: Official website of the Dominican Republic Ministry of Tourism. This website provides its visitors with in-depth information about the country, its wonderful destinations, diverse activities, accommodations, travel information, and an updated event calendar in order to help travelers plan their next trip to our paradise in the Caribbean. Users can create their own "Paradise" by adding all kinds of locations, activities, events, pictures & videos to "My Paradise", which can be saved and shared with others. Site currently available in English and Spanish, and soon in French, German, Italian and Russian.Case Study: Built entirely on Joomla 1.5 and Joomla extensions, as well as a custom-built template. The site is multilingual, has a robust and complex "interactive map" that adds geo-location and mapping capabilities to all the site, and has a complex user personalization feature called "My Paradise" that allows users to "save" all kinds of articles, events (from EventList), and photos and videos (managed via Phoca Gallery) both in the session (without logging in) as well as in the database (logged in via Joomla registration as well as facebook connect). Users can also write and saved personalized notes in their "paradise", and share it via the "addthis" application.

Multiple languages are managed via Joomfish and .ini files, as well as language-specific style-sheets to account for varying word lengths in menus, etc.

The site is a collaboration between A+S Ideas Studio (www.aplussideas.com) and inTacto (www.intacto.com). Content created and furnished by the Dominican Republic Ministry of Tourism and advertising agency BVK Meka.

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byintrr on January 10, 2011
That's not a very good first impression for a CMS...

All that the site mentioned here displays is a brown box with random text splattered all over it, and the response screen to the confirmation mail link contained the phrase "You can now log in", with a "Login" option nowhere to be found and the text "log in" not linked to a possible login page.

Professionalism is something else!
Owner's reply

Hi "intrr,"

Thank you for taking the time to review the site. About your comments:

- The "brown box with random text splattered all over it" is actually a semi-transparent layer that is displayed once, to allow users to select their language of choice the first time they visit the site. The "random text" -as you call it- are the names of the site's 6 available languages, in the corresponding languages. Perhaps you haven't been exposed to languages other than English.

- The registration confirmation email is Joomla's core reg. confirmation email, with a link to activate the user's account, and another link back to the site. And the site has a very clearly displayed log-in area (which the site's hundreds of registered users use to log-in successfully every day). Perhaps you haven't had much exposure to Joomla either.

It would have been great to see your work, which must be -judging by your comments- an example of professionalism. But, unfortunately, you registered to this forum to post this one comment, and have no sites listed under your name.

Good luck finding the professionalism you so desperately seek!

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