Hi,
I have just inherited website management for Girls' Brigade Victoria (
www.gbvic.org) . I have been using Joomla for work for two years, but we had the site made for us and mainly what I do is content management (I have the 'safest' level of backend access, but NOT super admin- they won't let me do that.
) Through a test site I have been playing with (in preparation for this handover) I have done some installing of templates and extension but I am feeling really ignorant.
When I took over management last week I found out that the website is Joomla 1.0! The last webmaster hadn't done anything since 2008
We have to upgrade to at least 1.5, so we decided a face lift may as well happen at the same time, espcially as we may lose the custom built template when I migrate to 1.5. I LOVE "Life Journey" and think it will be great for the GB Vic upgrade and what we want in a website.
So, what to do?
1) Do I migrate then install LIfe Journey?
2) Do I migrate and install at the same time? If so, how?
3) Do I install the template via site shaper then do the migration?
4) Should I install the template, migrate, then site shape?
5) I have read the site shaper tutorial and it may as well have been in chinese b/c I do NOT understand. I am a real amateur! I really want to use the template as it is, rather than trying to build it myself, so I know site shaping is the way to go. Can you explain it in simpler english?
6) Is it possible that a coder could do it really quickly for me and then it wouldn't cost too much (we are not for profits and all of us are volunteers)?
Really looking forward to your answers.
PS How can you ask 'pre-sales' questions when the only way you can post on the forum is to purchase membership?