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The New Compass Designs Blog

February 10, 2013 By barrie@compassdesigns.net 15 Comments

If you are a vaguely regular reader of this blog, you’ll have noticed its been a bit quiet recently. For the last year I have been hard at work in my new job as an Associate Director at a Graduate School of Education – the Upper Valley Educators Institute. As such I haven’t had the time to do much here at compassdesigns.net.

If you notice the new look, that’s now changing!

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Converting From Joomla to WordPress

February 10, 2013 By barrie@compassdesigns.net 24 Comments

wordpress-logo-notext-rgbWith a new focus on pure blogging, I have decided to convert compassdesigns.net from a Joomla site to WordPress. In several previous posts I have talked about WordPress is the better platform for blogging, but Joomla is better if you want to easily add a wider range of features. Through its various incarnations, compassdesigns.net has had forums, social networks, downloads and ebook sales.

Now, however, it’s going to be pure blogging. Just me, my thoughts and the 8 people that listen to me out there.

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I am an entrepreneur, web consultant, author and educator.

I have been involved in starting a K-12 School District, a Private High School, and three web tech companies. I also wrote one of the original and best selling books on Joomla.

And I like sailing with kids.

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