Littore Family Wines
Written by John Pitchers   
Thursday, 16 October 2008
Littore Family Wines
Littore Family Wines, a third generation winery in Victoria, is one of Australia's largest independent wine grape growers. Littore's old site needed to be re-designed to keep up with their new branding and showcase their excellent ranges.

This is a great example of a Joomla site that doesn't look like most Joomla sites. Thanks mostly to the excellent design provided by Grindstone Creative.

Due to a very tight deadline this project was started on a Friday evening and rolled out the following Monday.

In just one weekend I managed to;

  • slice the photoshop designs,
  • code the template which includes collapsible columns, different headers and different backgrounds for various areas of the site,
  • create a custom docman template,
  • add all the images, plugins and 80+ content items (quite a complex structure of brands, ranges, varietys and individual articles for each variety),
  • and finally code some custom mootool effects for the individual wine pages.

Normally, this would take much longer but when the pressure is on it's amazing how much you can get done. Working a weekend without all the interruptions also helps.

Plugins used on this site include;

  • Joomla (of course!)
  • Breezing forms
  • Yooeffects and YooCarousel from Yootheme. <-- The absolute best "Bling" plugins for Joomla 1.5 powered sites. I love, love, love Yootheme plugins.
  • Docman
  • Walid Nehme's Drop Down Menu module (modified to work with Joomla 1.5 with multiple instances on a page).

Check out Littore Family Wines here .