WebProjectIAI

This website provide useful information about researches on regional climate modeling with a focus on land surface-atmosphere interactions, their relation to the water and energy cycles, and potential contributions to understanding the predictability of the hydro-climate system. The site is leaded by Dr. Hugo Berbery who is collaborating with students and researchers from different institutions.

Serfe was requested for some specific components to show weather forecast from South America region. After analyze different alternative we conclude that implement a custom extension for Joomla would be the best option. Thus, we started working on the web design and implementing a custom Joomla template for it. We designed also the desired component in collaboration with the client, identifying necessary information and material for the development. We suggested Joomla because it also provides basic CMS features such dynamic page content, menu item manager, contact page, SEO and more.

Forecast Joomla Extension

We implemented 100% of this extension including one Joomla component, a module and a plugin. The component provide all the functional part of the application, in the Administrator panel the admin is able to add, edit or remove the satellite images and its values. The module is shown in the Forecast and Monitoring pages so the visitor is able to filter and choose different option to see different images based on domain and variables. The plugin is handling the effects and the dynamic load of each image which is loaded into the slideshow in the main content page.

Custom template

In order to fit the web design we customized the basic Joomla template, including specific module sections and changing HTML structure. This template works better for desktop and a few tablets (for iPad 2 and higher). We also implemented HTML templates override for articles and category pages to avoid hardcoding for them.