For some time now I have been working with Joomla , an open source content management system (CMS). Joomla is used on about about 8% of all of the web sites on the Internet. I attended a Joomla Day conference in Atlanta last weekend and I learned a lot about the Joomla community both locally in the south eastern US, but world wide. I started on re-designing my personal web site before attending the conference. I built my last website in static HTML out of rebellion for all CMS systems that I was using for clients and at my day job. The freedom of building static web pages is still my passion, but I want to really learn Joomla. One of the ways that I learn technology is by using it, hence the website redesign. Another reason for the redesign is that I want to consolidate several websites that I manage into one site. I had a PHP based store, a WordPress blog for poems and a WordPress cartoons that I want to put on one website. Joomla is u...