Beco-Beermann is a medium sized business located in the city of Bad Salzuflen; they are specialized in swimming gear, water toys and their own line of what they call ‘Aqua Fitness’ (water sports) equipment. I built their website years ago and now it was time for a major update.

The site was running on a heavily patched and customized version of Mambo 4.5.1 with a Design provided by Matthias Pestel. I re-built it with Joomla 1.0.13, using Danel Ecers ‘extended menu’-Module and the indispensable Joomfish for multilingual support. Other than that (well, and the customized start page) I tried to stick as closely as possible to a plain vanilla installation of Joomla, because customizing makes updating really a pain in the lower backside (although I’m not quite sure if there actually will be any updates for the 1.0.xx versions). I just transferred the site from a staging server to the live server so there might be a few glitches to sort out, but most of the work is done.

I have to say I quite like this site; it has well withstood the test of time, it is eagerly maintained and updated and receives a fair share of visitors. Beco-Beermann is a thriving business that in the last years branched out into new product lines and has expanded well in the east european markets and I am actually a little proud that in a very small way I could assist them on their way to success.