Brian Teeman

I'm not really here today as I am teaching a Joomla class in Central London but I couldn't resist the temptation to blog in advance about an amazing site that hopefuly has been relaunched by the time you can see this blog post.

(That's assuming of course that I make the correct adjustments for time zones, so if the site doesn't look like the image here then come back in a few hours and oopsie.)

As you've probably gathered I'm a big fan of K2 from joomlaworks.gr. Some people even call it "Joomla 1.6 without the wait", and if you've tried it for yourself you will know how incredibly powerful it is.

Well today one of the top web sites in Greece, Gazzetta, has recieved the K2 treatment and has been upgraded from a customised Joomla 1.0 installation to an all-singing, all-dancing, all-blummin everything K2 superstar.

Gazzetta, a sports news portal, is in the top 30 web sites in Greece according to Alexa and has 3,129,690 unique visitors/month. Oh how I dream for those numbers here on the blog.

When you have a site that is this popular it has to be running on a robust platform.

I know it's all in Greek and it probably doesnt mean too much to you but just spend a few minutes exploring the site to see the myriad of ways that the content is presented. (Over 52,000 items have been imported into Gazzetta along with 150,00+ comments)

Remember that this site is managed by sports journalists and if Greek journos are anything like some of the English ones I know then it would be a strecth to call them computer literate. Asking them to format and resize an image would definitely be beyond them, simply asking them to type on a computer is a task in itself.

This is exactly who K2 was designed for, the site builder has done all the hard work and all the journalist has to do is to type and upload a single image. K2 decides what size it needs to be for the relevant view and makes all the adjustments.

Sorry this has been such a short post but the only way to really see what has been done is to get out your mouse and give it a click.

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