The Coqueran Design Studio

Joomla! 1.6 has been released!!  With a number of new features and enhancements, when the ‘community’ cathces up, it will continue to be what it has been for a long time, the CMS of choice.  But now the face of the game has changed, ‘corePHP’ has released WordPress for Joomla! 

“We’ve combined the most popular blogging platform (WordPress) with the most popular CMS (Joomla) to create the most powerful blogging component ever made for Joomla.Introducing WordPress for Joomla: an exciting new component for Joomla that integrates WordPress into your blog!Packed with all of WordPress’s professional blogging tools (plus a few surprises of our own!), you can now harness the power of WordPress without ever leaving Joomla. It’s a Joomla blogger’s new best friend.”

I can think of at least one site that I have that would benefit from this, and maybe two more including my own.

One of the countless great lines from the Indiana Jones movies, it had to be used. 

I had a meeting tonight however with a real life Dr. Jones, Dr. Larry Jones to be exact.  Dr. Jones has written a book and is looking to get a site built not only to sell it, but to further promote the premis that the book was written on.  I have agreed to read the book and meet up with him after a week or two and see what we can come up with… this should be interesting.

So it seems that 2011 will be the year of the CMS sites for CDS. First I made a blog site for my wife using Google’s Blogger.  Then I decided to move my site from a static HTML version to a more fluid WordPress format.  Now I am in the works of making my most substantial endeavor to date.  Stay tuned!!

Well kinda…  I have moved my site.  I made a blog site for my wife for Christmas because she loves to read them so I figured that she may like to use one.  In my effortst o decide on which blog to go with, WordPress or Blogger, I ultimately went with Blogger because that is mostly what she reads.  I was able to ‘skin’ it pretty easilly and she was thriiled.  While I was tinkering with both platforms I was coming to the conclusion that I might want to move CDS to one of these to make updates to what I am working on current.  So that is what I did, I moved my site to WordPress.  It is still a work in progress as this is all new to me, the platform, the plugins, everyting.  Being a coder, none of this is intuitive just yet, but it will come in time I am sure.

Cranston Flooring Solutions

I was given a lead for a possible new project by a close friend of mine who has a friend with a successful flooring company that needed a web presence to reflect his hard work.  He had tried to have one done for him earlier, and the result was less than stellar.  The company is Cranston Flooring Solutions and is owned and run by Chris Cranston.  I took the opportunity to set up a meeting with Chris to get an idea of what he was looking for and what I could offer him.

In my preperations for the meeting I did some checking of what his competition had for web sites to get some ideas of what he might be looking for and did a mock site for him to help seal the deal.  It worked out very well!