Thought I’d spend a few minutes tonight giving thanks to all the developers of great software like Joomla and WordPress,  and all of their fantastic extensions and beautiful templates that have so helped us move forward in our goal to help people set up great looking and very functional websites. Many of these resources come to us under the GPL or General Public License. Others keep their work very affordable, or by donation.

Since migrating to content management websites, we have been able to plug into all the great resources that have been made available to anyone who would like to develop a website. We used to develop our sites in html and css which meant that we, like other web developers held the control over the website. If a client wanted to learn these languages, they could take over their site and start creating and editing themselves, but this really was not practical so the client felt at mercy to the designer, and it limited the amount of work we could take on. Now, that we have made our move to open source content management systems, we can help the client build the website themselves, and as their organization grows, they have the means to grow their website without having to turn back to us, the designers. We remain available, but our goal is that the client will take control of their own website.

This would not be possible if it were not for all the great work that has been done by so many writers of code that have developed the content management systems, and the huge variety of resources to create so much more than just a website.

Always keep in mind that these folks need to feed their families, be sure to visit their sites, support their other services, make a donation, or at least give them thanks. Look for the credits links on our websites for a list of resources that went into building the site.