Joomla is a CMS (Content Management System) that I’ve known about for over a year but never really explored. Until the weekend. I downloaded the latest version (1.5) and within an hour or so had installed all the neccesary components for an offline installation and got my first web site up and running. Cool. Configuring the design seems to be the part that’s not straight forward, but I’m sure I’ll get my head around it in time. I love the basic idea, although coming from a guy whose first introduction to web design was hand coding a html document, this is taking things a long way from home. But productivity is king, and this collection of technologies (Joomla, MySQL, Php etc) serves up one amazing little database driven website in a hurry. AND it’s open source!
It’s not for absolute amateurs, but for anyone with a grounding in web design, wanting to take the next step, this is likely to be it. Check it out!
I just came across this little script called Lightbox 2. It looks dead simple to use and there are clearly a few possibilities when it comes to implementation if you are a photographer looking for interesting ways to present your work on your site. Check out Brisbane’s Powerhouse website for an interesting example of the script in action (click the picture, obviously). It’s simple, but it looks very good, no?
Look out for it in action on my site soon 
I have finally finished the initial site for my Doula / Childbirth Educator wife. It’s Birth Connection. I really like the design, and I’m finally getting my head around CSS. Originally I had an image rollover nav bar, but the site kept growing and growing (nothing like a freeloading customer to create more work), and I realised I needed a dhtml nav bar to facilitate future growth. And if you don’t like the colours, blame my wife. It took over a month of painful drafts to get her to make her mind up, and on some screens and resolutions it looks too dark, but I’m not going to change it now. If I was charging for this site, it would already be 50% over budget. Check it out and let me know what you think.
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