Cleanliness in the CMS
My most recent CMS piece was of course done on Joomla! However, this last round I took a minimalist approach on the back end. Typically I will try to include every component I believe the client may ever want to use. However, this time I stripped just about everything I possibly could out of the CMS installation. I also used two components I’d never used before. Both are of GREAT help in the menu making process. I suppose going forward I am going to take the approach of, “Only put it in if you need it.” Sure there is tons of things that look cool. But not all are actually useful. Also revolutionary for me was the process of creating my template from scratch. I didn’t start from any one else’s template. my CSS, my coding, the whole thing came from scratch. It has taken longer, but is far cleaner and efficient.
