Arcas Computing had just won the contract for the redesign (and rebuild) of the website for the Association for the Study of Medical Education which will be basing up the Joomla open-source CMS.
The site is going to be fairly extensive (with several hundred pages of information) and will feature information about the organisation, provide facilities to join and renew memberships as well as to order their various publications and reserve slots at the conferences and courses that they provide. It will be neccessary to make use of Joomla plugins to index their PDFs as well as to create custom forms which will handle the eccomerce side of things in conjunction with a third-party payment provider such as World Pay.
Development is expected to take several months including testing and debugging with an early 2009 launch expected.