We’ve recently had contact with Steven Johnson at Intown Web Design.

Steven has rebuilt his iPhone Speaker Reviews website, so we thought we’d take a look at how he’s done it...

The website was created with Joomla and optimised using a number of extensions. Steven heavily customised the Alledia Bolt Template to create a unique template for the site.

So what is the site about?

iPhone Speaker Reviews combines technical information about iPhone Speaker systems with opinions and reviews.  Visitors can learn from editor and user reviews or they leave their own review. iPhone Speaker Reviews puts content first with unbiased editor and user reviews.

How is the site monitized?

The site is monitized by the use of Adsense, Shopzilla, and Amazon affiliate links.  This revenue goes to site upkeep and development costs (i.e. probably Steven's pocket! ;-) )

How was the site built?

The site was built using Joomla 1.5. jReviews provides the core functionality including custom fields, review page layout, and editor and user reviews.  jReviews theme system gives complete control over the review detail page.  For an example check out the Altec Lansing inMotion Max Review.

Joomla Extensions used:

• jReviews 2.0
• sh404SEF for Search Engine Friendly URLs and meta management.
• JCE for improve content editing
• RSForm for the request information forms
• Easy Adsense to display adsense and Shopzilla ads
• Modules in content to assist with the home page styling
• SEO Knowledge from the Alledia SEO club

Joomla Template

The site uses a heavily customized version of Bolt from Alledia.com for the template.  Bolt was selected because it is simple and flexible with SEO as the primary concern.

What do you think of the iPhone Speaker Reviews website?

Is there anything you particularly like about iPhoneSpeakerReviews.com or anything you think could be improved upon?

KREDYTY July 07, 2009 Votes: +5	Nice write up report abuse vote down vote up