I discovered Joomla! and used it for the first time eight years ago for a nice Zombie creative community, Zombie Harbor. That was a great time! Since then I've never changed for another CMS (although I tried some others).
Long life to Joomla!
My First meeting was not with Joomla but its predecessor Mambo while working on a non profit project. At that time we were working with PHP Nuke and Mambo then was almost like fiction ! You could actually install stuff !! When Joomla forked we naturally moved with it. Finding Joomla practically changed our lives. I was studying Mechanical engineering while doing projects on PHP and Mambo.. Somewhere down the line i realised this is what excites me..
So in a way Joomla changed the direction of my career. Its been an awesome ride so far. Starting with offering services on Joomla we expanded to creating our own Products at Techjoomla and later Mobile apps with Joomla as the backend on Appcarvers.. Hell we even ran an IOT platform on the Joomla framework and RaspberryPi..
Where there's a Will... There a Way.. and its called Joomla !
Happy Birthday and Thank you Joomla !!
Another year older .. time for celebration and remembering the great Community spirit that made everything possible.
Srećan rođendan, Joomla!
In 2007, I found Joomla. Already an experienced web designer with PHP-Nuke and OsCommerce, I needed to finish a project that had been dragging on for months and decided to do a Google search for a quick solution and I discovered Joomla! This changed my life forever. Since that day I have never built a website without Joomla.
In 2008 I decided to leave client work behind and create a Joomla Template and Extension club and called upon the most talented people I knew and formed joomlaxtc.com. I had no idea what was about to happen. My past websites and e-commerce experience told me not to expect much, but thanks in part to the Joomla Extension Directory within the first month online Joomlaxtc was more successful than any of my online ventures combined.
I am now the organizer of the Tampa Bay Joomla User Group and manage the Joomla Templates and Joomla Extension Facebook Groups. I am also a member of the Joomla Site Showcase team and have been spreading the gospel of Joomla with Joomla Day speaking engagements across the USA.
I am a Joomler and this is how Joomla changed my life.