Why this blog ?

About three/four years ago I built my first Joomla site http://www.wildlifeaid.org.uk as a volunteer effort. It took about 2 weeks and the results were pretty good considering. Wildlife Aid, went from a static site to a site they could update themselves and thsi had a positive impact on site traffic.

I built my own template choosing a fairly simple free one and modified it. I confess the template was pretty crap, I used tables for layout and my CSS skills were pretty poor, but it worked.

The site is now showing it's age so it's time to build a new one and this time, I thought it might be useful to record things I learn along the way so other people might benefit.