Migrating to Joomla!

I have just finished migrating my newly created online magazine, http://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 http://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?