Case Study: privas-energies.fr

The aim of Iziclic was to create a Web site for the 160 storekeepers of a city (Privas) in less than two months.

The purpose was to have an interactive directory, allowing to find the storekeepers by research, by category, and with interactive maps.

Given expected deadline and cost, Iziclic thus choosed the CMS JOOMLA, and  two major tools:

1. The Sobipro component was chosen for its numerous possible parameters, Iziclic having already used the Sobi2 component for another site. Sobipro, although slower and less complete than Sobi2, is compatible with Joomla 1.7.

2. To complete Sobipro, only one component was effective, adjustable and customizable enough to correctly display maps with Sobipro: Geocode Factory.

Indeed, with Geocode Factory, it was possible to use the Sobipro entries geographical position, in order to display them on maps by category, and to personalize their appearance: list of entries (see capture), customization of markers by category, customization of the bubbles (tabs and illustrations), streetview integration... Besides, thanks to the possibility to have several directories on the same site with Sobipro and Geocode Factory allowed to show a totally different map (size,contents, markers, bubbles) for car parks of the city...

In the end, 30 days were enough for proposing a complete, professional and effective directory : www.privas-energies.fr.

Some optimizations remain still possible, according to the features of future versions of Geocode Factory, for exemple displaying the map in the sobipro search results (editor's note : available beginning 2012), as well as the possibility of choosing in the backend parameters a non-google map (Today, it is possible, but on frontend action user action only (editor's note : available beginning 2012)).

Captures

Each list is build automaticaly, and the style (color, text, borders) can be applied with CSS.

Selection of the markerset (s) to display by clickink in the list (multiselect), of course without page reload.

Clicking on any item from the lists will show it on the map (in this capture : 'Pharmacie du centre' in the green list 'Santé').

And of course the bubble second's tab that contain the google streetview, to display a real view! Note the usage of the Openstreet map.

Myjoom.com 's review

We congratulate Iziclic this really successful integration of our product. Particularly in the use of lists of markers, and category list. The strength of Geocode Factory has really been exploited.