What you will be making
In the following screenshot, you see what you will be building throughout this chapter. Although it still uses the basic layout of Joomla's sample site, it's perfectly tailored to meet the client's specifications.
Meet your client
Allow me to introduce you to your first client! It's a club that's proudly calls itself Collectors Of Really Bad Art (CORBA). They just love horrible amateur paintings and other forms of ugly art that mostly end up in the trash heap or turn up in charity shops. According to the CORBA philosophy, ugly art is worth collecting for its own ugly sake. Now that a big newspaper is about to write an article about CORBA, the collectors' club needs a website to broadcast its message and tell the public what the club is all about. You may not be into art, but you are into the art of building websites, so you're just the one the CORBA people need.
CORBA's wish list is as follows:
- The look and feel of the site should...