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Núcleo do Evento!
Núcleo do Evento! was a Joomla-powered wedding and event portal for Joinville, Brazil — featuring an e-commerce store, photography editorial, live chat, and community tools, live from 2004 to 2017.
PHP4.x/5.x
JavaScriptES3
HTML5
CSS3
Joomla1.0.x
MySQL4.x2004
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Overview
Núcleo do Evento! was a Brazilian wedding and event web portal serving Joinville and the surrounding region of Santa Catarina. Launched in 2004, it was designed as a one-stop destination for couples, wedding photographers, event organizers, and suppliers involved in weddings, 15th birthday celebrations (debutante), and corporate events.
Built on Joomla 1.x CMS with a fully custom template and Flash-animated logo, the site integrated a VirtueMArt online store selling wedding supplies (costumes, party accessories, and decorations), an editorial blog with photography tips and planning articles for brides, a live chat room, Google Maps for venue discovery, and multi-format RSS feeds to keep subscribers updated on new photography content and products.
The platform doubled as a regional SEO vehicle: the homepage covered virtually every Portuguese-language search term related to weddings, wedding photography, and events in Joinville — driving organic discovery to the supplier directory and storefront. Built and maintained by Leonardo Lima de Vasconcellos, the site remained live from 2004 through 2017, over a decade on the same Joomla installation. This repository is an archived version of the live site, preserved via wget crawl alongside the original Joomla source tree.
Key features — what was built and why it mattered:
Highlights
Regional wedding and event hub
a custom-templated portal for Joinville aggregating photography vendors, suppliers, and editorial content, giving couples and organizers a single planning destination and sparing suppliers from maintaining standalone sites
Integrated e-commerce store
VirtueMart product categories (costumes, wedding accessories, decorations) with search and cart, enabling direct online sales of event and wedding supplies alongside the editorial content
Community engagement platform
live chat, maps, registration, audience polling, and multi-format RSS feeds that served brides, photographers, and vendors across the site's 13-year lifespan