This was a maintenance project for Tim Krause’s CNMT480 (previously WDMD480) course, which is a required capstone course for computing majors that involves working on real projects with real clients.
Others involved:
The site needed to be updated from Joomla 1.5.14 to the latest version. Following that, updates needed to be made to the existing template to patch vulnerabilities. To add additional security, the URL to the admin login has been changed. To wrap up security updates, the group performed a security audit on the website to determine whether or not currently installed plugins, modules or components posed any threats.
On a side note, some restorations of database entries needed to be performed, as updating certain modules and plugins caused the workflow of the website to break.
No design or front end work was required for this website per Tim and the client’s request.
Documentation outlining the updates was given to the client.
Virtuemart is the leading and most robust e-commerce system for Joomla, much less the most feature rich I’ve seen for a CMS. One day, I was approached by one of my clients who was wondering if their site was able to generate discount coupons for the shopping cart on their site, and if so, set one up that takes 15% off the total purchase before taxes. Not being a Virtuemart expert myself, I did some investigating on the site’s backend.
The first thing I did was log into the site’s backend and went to the Virtuemart component.
Virtuemart is a Joomla Component.
