I had always dreamt of a job in web design and development as it was a hobby of mine in which I had taught myself some very basic HTML and CSS and was keen to progress (and still am) to PHP, MySQL and beyond.

So I received a call one day from a friend saying that she knew of a web design company who were looking for new team members. A week after going for an interview with the company director, I began working with the “Not Web Design” team in Salobreña on the southern coast of Spain. I quickly found out that every project they work on is powered by the Joomla! content management system and they had even developed software designed to help other developers use Joomla! I’d heard a few things previously about Joomla! and I couldn´t really understand why a team of professional developers would want to use something which I thought would be so restricting.

After half of my first day at work, I was completely converted. I find that Joomla! not only speeds up a lot of those usually very time consuming tasks, it also simplifies the way the development process works and most importantly, leaves all the power in the developers hands.

We have recently been working on an online dating web site for some clients and have (of course) been working with Joomla! The way we have been able to integrate all the Joomla! functions which we have chosen to use but create custom components and modules when needed has been great.

I am still very much a beginner in this business but the team I work with are unbelievably advanced. Joomla! does everything they need a CMS to do, without stepping on their toes.

I would recommend Joomla! to anybody wanting to learn to build websites!