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Its been a great year! Thank you to all of our clients and friends.
Some highlights:
- We've produced over 230 online training videos for OSTraining.com
- We've been in the UK, Washington DC, Chicago, Austin, Indianapolis, Boston and more... teaching Joomla and Drupal to people from Pfizer to MIT
- We've launched a number of sites in 2011
- Rod is blogging again! (http://www.rodmartin.net)
May you have a blessed 2012!
We've Released Three New Joomla 1.6 Videos - Including ACL
It's January 10, 2011. Joomla 1.6 Stable should be released sometime before 11:59pm Hawaiian time today!
In preparation for that, we've put together 3 videos that will provide a great overview of what you'll need to know about administering a Joomla 1.6 site.
- Part 1 - The Site, Users and Menu Management Menus (9:52)
- Part 2 - The Articles, Components, Extensions and Help Menus (15:29)
- Joomla 1.6 Access Control Lists (26:31)
How the web is built - Static html vs the CMS
The folks over at W3Techs.com have released an interesting study on the distribution of web development styles.
A whopping 76% of websites are still not using a popular CMS. This doesn't necessarily mean that they are static sites... many could be dynamic - using PHP or another tool... but only 24% are using a recognizable content management system like Joomla or WordPress.
OSTraining Offers FREE Classes to Schools
This is a pretty cool!
Here's part of their announcement:
That landmark coincided with the holiday season so we celebrated by giving back: we held a free class for 16 non-profit organizations in Atlanta.
Fast forward almost a year and last week we hit another milestone: 200 live classes! Those Joomla and Drupal classes were held all across North America and England, from Los Angeles to London and from Vancouver to Miami.
This year's landmark also coincided with the holiday season and so we've decided to give back again, only bigger and better:
We're Featured!
One of the things we're passionate about is training. Yes, we're an internet marketing/web design company... but Rod loves to teach. He's just finished his 115th online training video for OSTraining.com. The topic of this video was JCalPro - a calendar component for Joomla (view the tutorials).
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Merry Christmas and Thank You
As we come to this holiday season, we recognize that while it has been a difficult year for many, we are truly blessed none-the-less. We would like to take a moment to say thank you for your friendship, business and continued trust in us.
While 2009 was a great year, we're anticipating that 2010 will be even better. We're rolling out some new tools early in the year to help you with your sites, we're just completing a 50 lesson online tutorial for Joomla and lots more (details to come in the new year)...
But for now, THANK YOU, and we wish you a prosperous and happy New Year.
Rod Martin - NavigateTomorrow, Inc.
A Christmas Tradition...
Growing up in Australia and Canada, the day after Christmas is called "Boxing Day". The tradition originated in England, where the day after Christmas was the servant's day off, and they were given small gifts and left over food by their wealthy employers, so they could go home and have "Christmas" with their families. These treats were boxed up and give to each servant.
For our family, Boxing Day was the day that we would open our home to neighbors and friends for an "open house" with goodies and treats and all that yummy "stuff". At some point in the afternoon, we would read the Christmas story from the Bible, and talk about the true meaning of the holiday - the birth of Jesus, our Savior.
When we moved to the States, all we got was blank looks when we mentioned Boxing Day. Our "tradition" never really worked down here... so we've started a new one.
Traditions are good... they keep us connected. Whatever your tradition... I would encourage you to take time to be thankful this Christmas season... and perhaps, reflect on why we have Christmas in the first place. While its not politically correct (and whoever said I was!) - Merry Christmas and God bless you this holiday season.
