Having a product is great, whether it be a photo, a song or even an entire business; it gives a great feeling of accomplishment to have achieved a final product. It’s even better when it gets seen, heard and talked about, and the web has become the forerunner in how to present your wonderful brainchild to the the world.
The range of sites out there for the looking is amazing, the power of Google allows you to track down almost anything, the new craze of social media sites lets you receive the “hey didn’t I go to primary school with you?” messages and numerous sites that are simply there just to pass the time. But with every website out there, some effort has gone into creating it, from LolCatz to the BBC.
I see the task of creating a website as being both artistic and technical, requiring pre thought as to what you want to achieve with it. There are numerous ways to create a website, from flat design such as using a Photoshop file to completely in code, however this week I delved into something completely foreign to me;
It’s called Joomla, and I’m already a fan. Based on a content management system, it allows you to manage your websites content through a user-friendly online interface, with access to image template files that can be taken into an image editor and altered easily enough. The flexibility of your site comes with the template, with varying module positions allowing you to move the content around the page with a click of a button.
This way of creating websites is far different from how I’ve made them in the past, favouring the Dreamweaver and template method. The Joomla approach allows the content to be managed from the front end as well as from behind the scenes, a lot less hassle than changing code and much more appealing to clients who update their sites fairly regularly. One click and you’re there.
This praise of Joomla comes after only a week or two of using it and I hope to make use of some of its other more complex features in the future. What I’ve experienced with it so far is the tip of the iceberg so hopefully it’s all go up from here on.
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