Stress Sponge

Ok, so I’ve been more than a little slack with updating my blog… But that isn’t to say that I haven’t been completely lazy! I have actually been busy filling my brain with new and exciting information.

I was chatting with Fred a while back and he mentioned an open source CMS program called Joomla.

Since then I have had a lot of fun using Joomla to setup 3 websites:
AspellCarbon – A shopping website
MX Photos NZ – A photo sales site for motocross photos
Kim & Frank’s Cabinets – A portfolio site for a kitchen design company (under construction)

Joomla makes it incredibly easy to rapidly setup professional looking websites with little web development knowledge and for little cost.

For anyone interested, here is a breakdown of the templates, modules, and components I have used for each of the sites:

AspellCarbon

ALFcontact
CustomQuickIcons
JCE
JD Testimonials
JoomlaPack
QuickFAQ
VirtueMart
mod_s5_image_set_rotator
mod_virtuemart_s5_quickview_cart
mod_banners
mod_breadcrumbs
mod_s5_vm_accordion
mod_virtuemart_featureprod
mod_virtuemart_search
mod_s5_horizontal_login
mod_virtuemart_currencies
shopper_frenzy