Tuesday, August 11, 2009
You have developed dynamic websites in the past, but a friend of yours told you
about Joomla!, so you decide to give it a try. You wish to start a simple website about restaurants after being inspired by the attractive celebrity chefs from the Food Network. The installation goes smoothly and more quickly than attempting to build a content management system from scratch. After finding a delicious template, adding some menus, and banging out a couple of reviews, you begin to think of some of the features that will draw in more visitors and even some cash.
Within minutes, you install a shopping cart for selling books, a forum for gathering
suggestions of places to review, and some advertising affiliated programs for the sidebars.
However, as you glance through the homepage, you feel something is missing. Then suddenly a brilliant idea hits you for something entirely new. Once it is finished,
you know others will want to use it for their sites as well. You look around Joomla!'s source files and start looking for a way of building code that will slide
right into place.
Joseph LeBlanc
About the author:
Joseph LeBlanc started with computers at a very young age. His independent
education gave him the flexibility to experiment and learn computer science.
Joseph holds a bachelors degree in Management Information Systems from Oral
Roberts University.
