My websites

Websites come and go. This is a list of the websites I currently manage (to a varying degree):

• Australian Confraternity of Catholic Clergy

• Blog of a Country Priest

• St Mary Star of the Sea, West Melbourne

• St Mary’s, Hamilton

Websites in development:

• Catholic Voices Australia

• Christ in Christmas

In the beginning I hand-coded everything, but then I discovered Joomla! Joomla! is a versatile Content Management System, but it’s not very user-friendly. I mastered it pretty quickly, but I’m a computer nerd.

Once I became a full-time priest, I didn’t have the time to maintain websites by myself. I needed to develop websites which a team of trained volunteers could maintain. So these days I use WordPress, which is less powerful but easier to use than Joomla!

I’m also a paid up subscriber to Elegant Themes. A $40 annual free provides beautiful templates and excellent support. I highly recommend them!