by Nicole Ouellette | Nov 29, 2013 | Websites
I am all for paying for a great product. But I am a big believer of using open source (free) content management systems (CMSes) to build websites. I think this for a few good reasons. I thought of this analogy story to illustrate my point. Once upon a time, there was...
by Nicole Ouellette | Oct 28, 2013 | About Us
About a week ago, I went to speak at Joomla Day Houston. This was the first Joomla Day in Houston and about 100 people turned out, many from Texas but many definitely from farther (I might have won the prize for farthest traveled!). A few useful resources from this...
by Nicole Ouellette | Oct 11, 2013 | Websites
The great thing about open source website building platforms like WordPress and Joomla? They come with a lot that works out of the box. In both these systems, you can create pages, menus, and manipulate the basic site template. Most people, however, want their...
by Nicole Ouellette | Mar 19, 2013 | Tech
This past weekend was Joomla Day Boston. Joomla days happen all over the world and it is a chance for users of Joomla software to get together and talk shop. For those of you who don’t know, Joomla is a open source software people use to build websites. Breaking...
by Nicole Ouellette | Nov 29, 2012 | Tech
Last week, I got back from San Jose, California where I attended the Joomla World Conference. To those people who are not nerdy about websites, Joomla is one of the largest open source softwares used to create websites today (the other two ‘big’ ones are...