Back in the 90's when we ran an Irish Pub in the mountains of Germany we had bins to seperate out our rubbish long before England got its desire to recycle. The Stadt were sh&t hot on policing it and heavy fines were an automatic penalty for non compliance.

Things that were recyclable had a green circle with the universal recycle logo emblazened on it called Der Grüne Punkt and anything with this label had to be put into the recycle bags [big clear plastic] or a large green wheelie bin much like the ones we have here now in use.

We all have a website in us but, what type suits us depends on our market, business and ethos.

Are you a Webspert?

Do you know your blog from your CMS, your ecommerce from your auction site? if not perhaps you should consider the following.

If you want to write little and often and have a particular slant on life that is perceived by others to be quirky, fun, unusual or informative then you are most definately a blogger so need a WordPress or Blogger site and have it personalised to suit yourself.

We finally took the plunge, in the midst of completing projects for customers we found a spare hour or two to finally begin designing and building our own Joomla CMS for our webwork side of the business.

We decided in the end to keep the format as simple as possible to keep loading speeds high and to maximise SEO benefits. We also took the unusual step of running three columns to enable us to format our site in a much cleaner way. The loss of a border is narrowly balance by the feeling of expansion and we toy with the idea of a thin red line around the frame but, its only a passing phase.

Compare a Joomla website to a dreamweaver or HTML site for a customer and you might think hmmh! how do I describe this, but in fact its really easy to do isn't it?

I had one today... Can I have a £100 website but, I want this feature and that feature and I want it just like so and so's - that's a simple website isn't it?

No, in fact that website is probably £2-£3k because what has happened is the site has been super-simplified. In other words all the tables and tracking modules have been designed so an idiot could use it with minimal guidance. It looks simple so it doesn't scare you but, the coding behind the project is scarey.

JOOMLA is like that, all the scarey stuff is done behind the scenes and the look at the front end is standard and clean and people can find their way around but, without worrying about what to press and where to go.