Chapter one

So, there I was, with a new domain. I had no clue to where to go from there. I had not talked about it even to my wife for 2 days was I as not sure where I was going with it. I had seen some videos and read a lot of articles over the internet, where everyone was saying putting up website is not at all hard these days and anybody can do it! So, I played around with all sorts of site building tools offered by my host. I knew one thing for sure that for a technical community site, I will need a CMS - Content Management System for sure. As a software tester I have seen a lot of well built, beautiful websites and knew that it will take me ages to build one myself and I did not want to just sit on my domain with nothing (as I had already invested my money!). While exploring different CMSs, I came across Joomla (actually at the back of my mind I kinda knew that I am going to choose Joomla but I still looked at other options) and settled on it. Within 2 days, I had (almost) the entire site ready with user authentication, registration, article managment, document sharing, polls, placeholders for ads and what not (almost everything I mentioned is already available in Joomla, I just had to choose and configure). After spending almost a day over understanding how Joomla works (or how to make it work), I was pretty confident that I can do this, we can build a good site like this and I spread the news in the same group of buddies I had a talk with. I think, when we had something to look at than just random thoughts floating around, excited the group and the journey began...