Wake Forest University has a Translational Science Institute (TSI) which is dedicated to finding practical ways to help people with scientific discoveries. The TSI needed to do some fundraising with government and private agencies, primarily through a new online presence. I was brought on board to first develop a Content Management System (CMS) platform to power the new website, and to train the TSI staff to maintain and upgrade the site in the future. We chose to use the Joomla! CMS because of its incredible extendability and stability.

I oversaw merging the TSI template with the Joomla CMS, troubleshooting and optimizing the site for Joomla. I’ve done a lot of work in Joomla and was able to help ensure smooth operation of the site.

During development, we realized that TSI’s template wasn’t fully fleshed-out with its styling, so I was able to design new CSS type styles and Joomla module styles, as well as an accordion AJAX menu and other extensions.

It seems to have worked, because the TSI staff has taken our training and continued to update the site. Hopefully they’ll continue to grow!