Under Joomla 1.5, I had found an excellent way to put together my websites. Once set up, adding new content is easy; no messing around with menus having to be extended every time I added new content. A big range of thirst part extensions were available. And one of the supplied templates "JA Purity" provided a layout I liked.

Upgrade to Joomla 2.5 has been a nightmare. Several extensions I used were not supported; some of those that were I had to re-enter all of the content because the upgrade process didn't work; and my template was no longer available.

Enter "Artisteer": a program that lets you create a Joomla template with no coding or design skills needed. Simply take a starting point, and change the parameters until it look slike what you want. Result? My template is now very close to the original that I liked and it took maybe 30 minutes. A truly excellent product!

Using This Site

Searching

The web site can be searched: type a search term (e.g. "DAC10") into the search box on the right hand side of the header, and hit enter. the search engine will find words matching the search string in the main body of the site, but it won't search attached documents (e.g. the product manuals).

"Read More"

Many articles are displayed one after the other. some are quite short, and say "read more" at the bottom. Click that to read the remainder of the article.