This website is something of a personal memoir for me.
The "help-only" site is CivilHelp.com
My "business" (OpenRoads Support Services) site is CivilXLr8.com
This web, like many of my efforts, has a number of goals:
1. It is to provide a landing page for information about me in an environment I can fully control (rather than yield control to another entity (like LinkedIn).
If you're looking for just the basics, it's probably:
There is other cogent information, but this site is much more that.
2. It is my technology testbed for the Joomla! Content Management System platform.
3. It's a style sandbox. As a large aggregation of cross-referenced articles that is completely under my control without direct "user impacts", I intend to try things out that I can't in a working multi-user site.
Please excuse the formatting and stylistic issues if you're here for content. And, yes, this is more wordy than it should be if I were simply trying to fulfull Goal 1.
This is my testbed for me managing a large amount of data via the Joomla CMS platform. Joomla is massively extensible and I am continually experimenting on this site.
I have some other responsibilities managing other webs, but they're in use by multiple-users. I can't really experiment with them.
Why Joomla? Among other reasons, Joomla provides more user access control than, say, wordpress or wix.
My previous incarnation of this site was my first new web tech in many years: Bootstrap. Bootstrap is different than the old-school tech I used, HoTMetal5, Frontpage, DreamWeaver, and Expression Web. It was much cleaner than my previous designs. I really liked it. It was perfect for introducing myself and "presenting my message".
Bootstrap was sufficient for a few pages of content, but Joomla is far more scaleable and provides robust user participation and management. It's a full Content Management System that aligns with my professional, personal, and outreach/volunteer needs.
This is a huge leap beyond the old static tech.
