Migrating to Joomla!

I have just finished migrating my newly created online magazine, www.discoveryindonesia.com from just static pages of HTML (not even with CSS) to the most popular content management software today, Joomla!

I have known Joomla! since earlier this year and at that time there was not many interesting templates available, not to mention plug-ins. Today, however, tons of Components, Modules, and Mambots (or plug-ins) are available on the Internet. Either for free or for some fee.

I have enriched my Joomla! version of online magazine with Virtuemart, video plug-in and Google maps! Very suitable for a site promoting a vast country like Indonesia as well as trying to make some fortune while doing it.

The Joomla! version of www.discoveryindonesia.com is not officially published but accessable at www.discoveryindonesia.com/portal.

The Discovery Indonesia Online Shop was build using Virtuemart with actual products from Kalimantan Borneo. We haven’t really setup the logistics, but payment gateway using PayPal was already setup (paying to my PayPal account which is linked to a Singapore bank).

You’re welcome to shopping at this rudimentary online shop (a bad excuse of not being able to guarantee good service).

I learned that several of our former Neotek magazine fans (neoteker) are considering to continue the publication of the magazine in some form (online portal, weblog, or even underground tabloid!).

Maybe a portal using Joomla! would be suitable for Neotek Online. Any comments?

It’s Just About Time for the New Neotek

My former executive editor at Neotek magazine (print) reminded me that the expiry date of the domain name neotek.co.id is September 30th, 2007. It’s very nice of him to remind his ex colleague, however I believe we have updated the domain name on September 10th when we move the hosting to the same hosting company I used for www.esolusi.co.id

September 30th was always important date for me. It was the notoriously communist failed coup d’etat in 1965. It was the date of laboratory accident due to my fault at the time I wasn’t supposed to work at the laboratory (1978). It was the date I decided to quit my position as director of PT Elex Media Komputindo (1987) to start my own initiative. It was the date I restarted my career as an empolyee for bigger company at the now-defunct SERC (Sampoerna Executive Resource Center) in 1988. It was the date I joined PT Pantja Simpati printer (1989). It was the date I joined Periplus Editions (1991), Prentice Hall (1995) and now starting up the Neotek website and weblog.

I’m not a suprestitious type of person. The same date of all the above milestones is just a coincidence (or is it?)

Some of my other important milestones, however, did not started at September 30th such as moving to Singapore (August 2000), joining McGraw-Hill (December 2000), joining Elsevier (May 2004). Even the first publication of Neotek (October 2000 and the first meeting on the magazine was on June 2000) and establishment of PT Esolusi Pirantikita Esa (early 1997).

Anyway, do visit my websites:
www.neotek.co.id
www.newneotek.com/wordpress