Another two went online

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Today the second site out of a series of 4 went online. This project is a bit different than the usual websites I do. The client had 4 websites, 3 of them running on a very old school proprietary CMS and one on MODX Evolution. I developed a layout which gets adapted by all three of them with minor differences and functions. I am running these on one installation of PW with the multi site module "Soma edition", originally by Apeisa. No problems so far with that.

I imported around 1500 documents for both of the sites by fitting the CSV importer module to my needs. I could also manage to import images/PDFs which were hard coded in the shitty CMS by extracting the src from the markup. The PW-API surprised me a lot while doing this, just try&success ;-)

The sites share a lot of templates, I tried to build it as modular as possible. As always, the CropImage module is loved by the clients and it also serves different image sizes for the sliders, while the picture polyfill loads the correct one dependent on the visitors screen size.

The only thing I am struggling at the moment is the performace of the backend. Sometimes no problems, sometimes significant loading times. I am not quite sure if this is a server performance issue or is something related to PW. I also customized the backend a bit for quick create/edit pages:

Ryan, if you read this: Do you think it is possible to get ProCache up and running for multi site environments? I think it would be a good benchmark, because the last site which gets converted will be the biggest one. And I am a bit concerned about perfomance (will be 10000+ pages).

So, here are the two (warning: german and pretty boring, something with public vehicles and something with pests & ugly banners):

http://kommunaltechnik.net

http://schaedlings.net

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Update: Today the last of the four sites went online. This last one is by far the biggest one: ~20.000 users, each with profile options which are searchable in this section: http://lu-web.de/lu-links/ (search for "Hannover" for example), additional options are available when "Nach Qualifikationen filtern" is clicked. Also there are eMagazines which are only viewable if the user is logged in and has an active subscription.

To sum up:

http://schaedlings.net

http://kommunaltechnik.net

http://beckmann-verlag.de

http://lu-web.de