This website is built using Joomla!, an open-source "Content Management System".

The olde worlde style of website maintenance required that the owner either know or pay someone who knows HTML and other things that might be described as the "guts of the internet". Generally speaking, this leads to one of three possible outcomes: very crappy websites, very expensive websites, or both.

Content Management (which is an extension of the software principle of MVC) is all about separating:

• the stuff that gives the site its "look and feel"
• the stuff that makes it work
• the stuff it's trying to convey to the reader.

Basically you install Joomla! and find a template that suits your theme, and refine it with your logo, colours and so on. (You might need to pay someone to do this for you, if you're not fairly savvy with kind of thing.)

 But once that's done, you can easily maintain your website with all the latest information and have something that looks really professional. All you need to concern yourself with is the third of those bullet-points above. If you can participate in the forum, you can maintain a Joomla! website. Every page belongs to a section and category, just like every post on the forum belongs to a particular "board" and "topic". These blog pages are set up in this manner, and when you click on the "All Diary Entries" link, what you're seeing is the equivalent of a forum board. For more important pages, it's trivial to make one of the menus (along the top or down the side) be a link to your new page, so people can find it.

Joomla! has a very active community of people building plug-ins and extensions to the core software to do all sorts of cool things. The gallery and video functions on this site are built using free plug-ins. 

 This page turned out a bit more technical than the last one, but if you're interested in this - either for something FE-FC related or commercial - I'm happy to discuss it with you further.