MBA Queensland website redesigned
In 2007 I designed the website for the Medical Benevolent Association Queensland in Australia on Joomla 1.1, which was a pretty good option at the time. But, since I hadn’t done any upgrades to the site, it was well and truly out of date by now. So I decided to take the time and do the usual pre-upgrade tests only to find out that Joomla 1.5 was not what I expected it to be.
Nothing worked, the template was broken, plugins did not run any more and upgrades were not available.
The bottom line was that I would have had to re-build the whole site again from scratch on a platform which I wasn’t too familiar with any more.
By that time, WordPress was already my best friend when it came to web development tools. So the decision was not difficult to build the new MBA Qld site on this excellent platform. It did not take me all that long and with my new helper Artisteer I had found a tool which is great for people like me who just can’t seem to find a good enough of-the-shelf theme.