The Story of e107 to Joomla Migration
No matter how much you love your website powered by e107, there is a lot of platforms which can offer more functions and better security for a site. For instance, in this article, you will find out, why it’s a good idea to transfer your web project to Joomla. Moreover, by the top of this post, you will even know how to move e107 to Joomla automatedly with no efforts.
e107 is a website building tool, which allows you to create a sites and web applications at the same time. This platform has very simple and intuitive interface that makes it easy to manage and customize the content. However, for managing this system you should have some extra programing skills and expertise. With this platform, you can create different kinds of web projects such as blogs, news sites, business sites and so on. Although e107 offers a lot of advantages, it comes with some drawbacks as well. This platform is rather SEO-unfriendly, slower than other CMS and is a bit outdated.
Joomla is one of the most popular CMS platforms in the world. This is a modern website building solution which is used for more than 30 million sites worldwide.
With this CMS, you can create professional websites, blogs, diaries and even e-stores.
Why you should choose Joomla over e107?
- the installation process is very simple, takes only 1 click and 10 minutes.
- this platform if user-friendly
- has a lot of supported extensions (7500+)
- greater amount of free and commercial design solutions
- has a strong security system
With all those and many other aspects Joomla can be a great destination for professional web developers as much as for non-techies.
Migrate your Website Automatedly
Automated migration of a website from e107 to Joomla can a good solution for those who have a little time or don’t have strong coding knowledge. CMS2CMS is a converting tool which can transfer any type of website from one platform to another in 15 minutes on average. Take the following steps for your e107 to Joomla migration:
Register an account on http://app.cms2cms.com/, Specify your username, email and password or you can just login via Facebook and Google+ accounts.
Provide your e107 and Joomla websites URLs. Choose appropriate CMS types.
Download the bridge file and connect your websites via any FTP client dashboard.
Select the migration options if you want to:
- Clear current data on the new site before migration
- Make URLs SEO-friendly
- Migrate images / attachments
- Fix broken relationships in the database
Check out CMS2CMS service in action by proceeding with FREE Demo Migration.
As soon as you get a notification that your Demo Migration has completed, check it out and go straight to Full Migration.
Now your website content has been migrated, but there are a couple of action which you still have to perform. Firstly, set up the design for your new Joomla website. Choose the acceptable for you free or commercial template. After that, add the functionality to your website by installing Joomla extensions.Then you have to take care of SEO, implement the 301 redirect to preserve your traffic and ranking, install XML sitemap, set the “Search Engine Friendly URLs” and “Use URL Rewriting” options. As soon as you are done with the setting, check out your website if everything is fine.
Enjoy your new Joomla website.