You can start by listing what you want the application do.  This will open the door to another round of discovery. ------------------------ Keith Smith --- On Tue, 12/23/08, Stephen wrote: From: Stephen Subject: Re: Looking for some PHP geeks To: klsmith2020@yahoo.com, "Main PLUG discussion list" Date: Tuesday, December 23, 2008, 8:01 AM i have an idea of how i would do it, but i dont have quite the time, nor PHP skill to devote to this. and if there are unknowns that needed to be known i would hope someone would ask, because i dont know all of them, the last website i maintained was in 1998. I have run the servers, but usually the web dev says i need X Y or Z and i make it magically appear on the server for him. On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 7:12 AM, keith smith wrote: > > I think he is looking for a quote and time frame to accomplish the project. > > Before a quote can be accomplished all of the unknowns need to be known. > > > > > > --- On Mon, 12/22/08, JD Austin wrote: > > From: JD Austin > Subject: Re: Looking for some PHP geeks > To: "Main PLUG discussion list" > Date: Monday, December 22, 2008, 10:07 PM > > There's no quick way to migrate from one platform to another. > But if you work out a plan it can be done fairly quickly (a few weeks). > > I'd use httrack ( http://www.httrack.com/ ) to make a static version of your > website that you can work with as plain html/etc. I'm not sure what dynamic > feature you need but there are a ton of plugins for Joomla find equivalents > before you start. > > Build it offline (JSAS or another linux box) and move it to the real server > when you're done (usually requires a DNS change). Migrating a joomla site > from one site to another is fairly straight forward as long as you keep > everything in the same place relatively (changes to the configuration.php > typically). > > JD > On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 9:37 PM, Stephen wrote: >> >> The trick is I have.a network to build, and an old one to migrate. Not >> much time to web geek. >> >> There is an IIS based content manager we would like to move away from >> also, and try to keep some of its stuff. >> >> On 12/22/08, JD Austin wrote: >> > It wouldn't be that hard to move it to a Joomla site. >> > Start by creating a single page statict html page from your existing >> > site >> > with place holders for the content. >> > Next turn it into a template. >> > After that as long as you put your images in the same relative place as >> > your >> > old site you can pretty much cut/paste to make content on the new site. >> > It takes some time but isn't that difficult. >> > >> > JD >> > >> > On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Stephen wrote: >> > >> >> WE are getting ready to alter our website, and would like to move it >> >> away from its IIS based backend to something a little ( i mean alot ) >> >> better >> >> >> >> www.themim.org and we want to make it a bit more dynamic, my boss and >> >> myself are thinking joomla, and then we would built a lamp VM or >> >> something similar to host the site. >> >> >> >> anyhow anyone interested get me some link to work done and a ball park >> >> of how long and how much you want to build a site and send it to >> >> stephen.partington@themim.org >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from >> >> rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. >> >> >> >> Stephen >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> >> > >> >> -- >> Sent from my mobile device >> >> A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from >> rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. >> >> Stephen >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen