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Jun

2009

British Telecom Rolling Out Joomla To Customers

Written by Steve Burge

British Telecom Joomla We had a student at our Cambridge class who put me on this trail of this ... apparently British Telecom are rolling out Joomla for nearly all of their customers' websites. With the exception of e-commerce,it seems to be their default system for building customer sites. For those of you not familiar with BT, it is far and away the biggest telecom company in the U.K.

British Telecom and Joomla

BT's main web services area is http://websites.bt.com. They have example websites and every one, except for the e-commerce sites, is built in Joomla. They've also written Joomla video tutorials.

A Google search shows 2,700 sites with credits showing they were built by BT.

BT seems to be hiring Joomla developers.

Price start at ?999 or $1600 per site. It seems that they actually do original designs, rather than using stock templates. Oh, and they're smart enough to add JCE for all their customers. Also used are Joomap, SW Menu Pro, Simple Gallery and Phil Taylor's Forms Component.

From the student's experience, the build process and follow-up support were both pretty good. I asked him to contact them about a particular issue and he had a detailed reply within an hour.

Do you have any experience with customers or friends using Joomla services from BT or other large companies?

Comments

(5)

Johnba

June 29, 2009

This is an accident waiting to happen! They'll never keep joomla updated i can guarantee it.

Also looking at the source code, most of the sites have been built fairly badly.

Frightening. Truly frightening.

Mark Law

June 30, 2009

Wow, that is great news . It really reinforces the fact that Joomla is a great choice of CMS. I'm glad I've chosen to become a Joomla expert. I shall send this link to my UK clients

Oh and about updating multiple sites, I guess Johnba has not come across Jentla - http://www.jentla.com/

Steve Burge

June 30, 2009

I guess the key is all in the execution.

If they do it well, and use a multi-site solution as Mark suggests, this could be great.

If they're updating them all by hand ... smilies/shocked.gif