Ilaaka.com - Migration from Drupal V 4.7 to Drupal V 5.12
Ilaaka was a very critical assignment for Openkick since the Migration project involved tasks such as cleaning up the current code in order to fit the Drupal standards, removing hacks and creating custom modules to achieve functionalities. If a module was not available, a similar module was used to deliver the same functionality and the data was migrated to the new module. The team at Openkick was given the tasks to migrate the whole project and follow Drupal standards while making changes in order to achieve desired functionalities.
My experience with Openkick has been extremely delightful. We had the complex task of migrating our portal, www.ilaaka.com, from a 2-year old Drupal version to a current supported version. With over 20,000 nodes, Ilaaka is an Alexa Top 100K site with content being added almost daily since the last two years.
With a lot of custom hacks in the code, I was anxious by the magnitude of the task, so when we started the project I had some concerns whether any vendor would be able to pull off this complex migration in a smooth manner. As a pleasant surprise, I found the Openkick team was right on the ball since day one. They not only helped cut down time in setting things up fast, began asking the right questions, poring through the existing code, but also kept me updated regularly on their findings, the proposed approaches to solve problems, and also demoed their progress at regular intervals.
To my delight, I found Openkick’s engineers to have in-depth understanding of Drupal concepts and API, and they were able to redo our site in the recommended Drupal standards with aplomb. With robust processes setup internally and a strong Drupal engineering team and management, I was soon rest assured that our project is in good, capable and eager hands.
The final Ilaaka deployment went off without any hitches with the Openkick team providing all the necessary support, and I was left feeling very satisfied with the way the whole project shaped up, and pleased at my decision to go with Openkick. Needless to say, I would easily recommend Openkick to anyone looking to outsource their current Drupal work, or planning to start a new Drupal project. They make Drupal look easy!
InitMarketing
InitMarketing is the first provider of world-wide Open Source marketing services to Open Source vendors, contributors, investors and associations. With its broad skill set, the InitMarketing team is able to provide the full range of services, such as go-to-market strategy definition, community building, event management, media campaign execution, and more Open Source marketing services.
Gloscon team was involved in building up the theme of the corporate website of Initmarketing. A very important and critical requirement from the client was the cross-browser friendly behavior of the site. The site had to be compatible in almost all the browsers such as IE 6, IE 7, FF 2 and Safari 2.x.
Cariblifecentral - A community website for Caribbean people
September 2008, saw a very new Cariblifecentral with many more features than the earlier site. The new site is having some of the latest community features such as Comments, RSS Feeds, Syndication, Open ID, Newsletters.
Another important functionality that got added was of Zvents & OpenX into the site. Zvents provides localised information on Events, Venues & Performances that are happening around the area in which the site has been browsed.
The website Carib Life Central is a mashup site with a number of third party integrations such as:
- Ning Network – For Interacting with the network of Cariblifecentral at Ning
- Cafepress – For accessing the merchandise which is present at the Cariblife Shop on Cafepress
- Zvents – Displaying events based on the area in which the site is browsed upon.
- PHP My Directory – Providing information on
- Linkedin Network (Future Enhancements)
- OpenX for serving Ads from Google as well as local Advertisers Ads
Development was done by our 100% owned subsidiary OpenKick Technologies Pvt Limited.
Concrete Ideas
Concrete Ideas is a B2B marketplace for Decorative concrete on the Web. The site is a property of The Ideas Media Group Inc. which also has another website Landscapeideas. An Ideal marketplace for designer concrete, it had a site and it was just present in US. It wanted to expand and cover areas of Australia, Mexico and the UK.
Some of the requirements that are worth mentioning is to have a search functionality that searches for a category simultaneously.
Gloscon's team, along with implementing the different requirements set by the client, was able to add enhancements to the existing drupal site, created a secure environment for them such as Staging, CVS, Database Backup.
