Template: Rocket Theme Hivemind with almost no modifications. Did require some changes to the shopping cart template to match the primary, but overall this was a very smooth project.

Banner Art: CorFun's own Sarah Banks Long.

Overview: After years of painstaking research, New Hope Oils has perfected a line of Christian anointing oil based on Biblical ingredients such as olive oil and myrrh. The site offers a wide assortment of blessing oil in individual containers, sets, and even gift sizes such as keychains.

Technical Details: This is a Joomla 1.5.3 site! Our first foray into the cutting edge of Joomla's newest release. Site has all the basic Joomla capabilities plus:

• Rotating Slideshow - The site is a Christian-based one, selling primarily to Christians. The slideshow has calm, Biblically-based pictures to welcome visitors and encourage them to stick around and explore the site.
• eCommerce - We used Virtuemart 1.1 which is the latest and greatest shopping cart for Joomla. Talk about power! The new shopping cart is more intuitive, easier to use, and has cool AJAX effects that wow the shoppers. We will be deploying this release from now on!
• eNewsletter - Like most online vendors, New Hope Oils wants to keep its customer informed of new products, personal appearances, and other company news. A robust eNewsletter component bundled into the site makes this possible.

But most importantly - Quickbooks Integration! Now available for Joomla-powered sites! The New Hope Oils site featured integration with Quickbooks Merchant Services, allowing the company to continue processing credit card payments the same way they had been. In addition, the backend integration with Quickbooks award-winning accounting software allows seamless processing of all phases of the product life cycle. Sales orders, inventory management, shipping, and customer relationship are all efficiently passed across from the online shopping cart to the Quickbooks software package.

Visit New Hope Oils to explore the site for yourself.