Better late than never, here it is, the new HOC has arrived!

Roughly a year and a half, but perhaps two years ago, the idea arose that the HOC should be redesigned. It wasn’t a bad site, but we felt the internet, the content service passing by us. There is perhaps no industry in the world that is developing faster than the Internet. Here, half a year in a traditional field is up to several years, so whoever plays on that track can’t afford to fall asleep. We fell asleep, but maybe not entirely through our own fault.

It started with me starting to design the new structure, the new design elements. It is true that the latter have not been dealt with by me so far, but the structure of our pages so far has all been their own creation, and in their time they may not have been bad. The first blow struck us when my old colleague, who had been designing the pages so far at the beginning of the work, but many months from the beginning, said that he did not have time to do so. In exchange for the money paid so far, he sent some useless sketches. The second blow hit us when it became clear that the programmer who had built, developed and maintained the engine for our site so far no longer had the HOC in his time. In the meantime, of course, the valuable months have passed, and we waited for it to be revealed that the creators of the pages so far did not even want to take part in the joint work.

I note here that we are grateful and thankful for this anyway! If the continuation of the story hadn’t been similarly crappy, I’d say he was gone 8-9 months, but not there for him, because someone else came who did the work.

As I have complained about it several times, there has been an economic crisis in the meantime. The financial framework has narrowed quite a bit, so we had to realize that there will simply be no money to write a whole new engine from the ground up and even take a complete design for it. Who wouldn't know that it's usually in the millions. The idea came to use Joomla. The base engine is free, relatively robust, though quite vulnerable at the same time. So the thing is risky, but if you buy every module the cost will still be orders of magnitude less than with your own engine.

One last look at the old one

That's when the second part of our Calvary began. I’m good I’m relatively at home in Joomla, so I put together a sample page. We then started looking for a new programmer who would be able to build a secure and well-optimized site based on the instructions given to us. The first programmer to take the job disappeared after four months. The story started three weeks after he started work, and I wrote him a letter and asked where we were going. This is offended because that time can not be ready for the site. He followed word for word, and finally, after about four months, which brought no results, he did not reply to my letters.

The second gentleman was recommended by an acquaintance of mine. He took the job for four months and asked for half the wage in advance. Since an acquaintance recommended it and claimed it was really reliable, I paid the money - although I wouldn’t have done it. The four months have now passed at the end of April, but I already felt in the middle of the month that there would be nothing of that either. I had a request before work to write a letter a week describing where he was going. Maybe I don’t need to say that it didn’t come together either, in fact, maybe it didn’t even start work.

It so happened that I thought I would gather all my knowledge, everything I know about Joomla and put the page together for myself, for myself. I’m writing this presentation on May 9th, not quite a month after the start, and the site is essentially ready. Not four, but not even in a month.