The Malay College Class of 2004 official website, is my first ever website, built in 2004 using Mambo 4.5. It has gone thru numerous changes ranging from the template, to the Content Management System of choice. In 2005, I migrated the website to Joomla 1.0.4 which was quite a gamble back then. There were a lot of uncertainty, whether to stay with Mambo or to declare allegiance with its fork brother, Joomla. Thank god I made the right decision.

After my first (and only) exam ended last Monday + my final architectural presentation ended last few weeks, I am now bored to death. My daily routine goes from waking up at 2.00 pm, head straight to my studio and just browse the internet. My favorite spots are Malaysian blogs, and Warez-bb.org to get some good movies and songs. Torrent is blocked in my University, thus Ive pampered myself with a premium rapidshare account. Trust me, its worth it. I can easily download a 700Mb movie in 30 min max. Thats blazingly fast.

Thats it, thats what I do daily. Sticking my butt on the chair doing nothing constructive. Thus ive decided past few days to redesign my old website. Gone are clashing javascripts, gone are heavy advertisements from advertlets, gone are unnecessary Joomla modules (which were collected bit by bit during years of the site maturity). I would like to keep this batch site as simple as the Malay College official website. 

On the framework, Ive made use of  (most are my favorite stuff anyway):

• massively modified JoomlaArts' JA Koniga for the template,
  
• Fireboard 1.0.4 for the Forum,
  
• Community Builder 1.2 Beta 6 for the community system,
  
• commercial ClexusPMS for the private messaging system,
  
• hacking CBAuthorbot in order to show avatar of the author (and linking it to his CB profile),
  
• my favorite PonyGallery for the picture gallery,
  
• our Malaysian-made JomComment for the commenting system,
  
• and surely Joomla 1.0.15.

I have tried migrating the site to Joomla 1.5.x tho, but ive decided to roll back to Joomla 1.0.x for I think I should a wait a bit longer in order to get my favorite components / plugins working on the new Joomla 1.5.x framework. 

I would like to personally thank Derred for his comment and also Anwari for letting me to use his computer (mine was stored in my room to prepare for our studios' portfolio review).

10 Comments

asx April 28, 2008 http://asx.zerodeuxsix.com Votes: +0	Great! . But more like a blog rather than a community web. btw . nice background . and the fireboard forum. is the theme like that?. seems different from the previous fireboard forum . owh . haa. i got my premium rapidshare acc too .but just dont know the right place to find the movie download links. report abuse vote down vote up
fuqaha April 28, 2008 Votes: +0	ahakss.. thanks. For that fireboard forum, you may download the template here (called Numinu): http://www.bestofjoomla.com/co...Itemid,67/ This is a new concept as im no longer interested in community stuff. I just want to let the users be able to submit their own article, and make that particular website as if a blog. A batch blog that is. So, underneath the facial surgery, ive reassign the menus to make them much organized yet simpler to use. report abuse vote down vote up
p.crew April 28, 2008 http://www.pembaris.com/blog Votes: +0	no problem at all fuqaha. Thanks for the credit as well appreciate that anyway, did you realize I have link your site in my "about us"? just letting u (and u guys) know fuqaha has been a lot of helps for my sites. (sounds like alot but it's only a total of 2 hehe..) report abuse vote down vote up
starwalker April 29, 2008 http://starwalker.speakerz.net/ Votes: +0	hari tu da redesign. redesign lagi.. gile lawa weh.respect! report abuse vote down vote up
fuqaha April 29, 2008 Votes: +0	@p.crew, ah.. i dint notice that. thanks! @starwaler, its true what people said bout micheal jackson after all. Once you get a plastic surgery, youll never stop (at least in my part). hehehe.. report abuse vote down vote up
asx May 01, 2008 http://rihayszaini.com Votes: +0	hahahaha! . damn right about that !. report abuse vote down vote up
uner May 08, 2008 http://aminusone.com Votes: +0	nice design go got here, really. report abuse vote down vote up
KNizam May 18, 2008 http://knizam.com Votes: +0	superb design ! memang cool like the dark background. the lines really blend with overfloor and big3 report abuse vote down vote up
asx May 19, 2008 http://www.rihayszaini.com Votes: +1	why don't you change the module header(i don't know what to call it) which is /images/h3-bg.png , in the template folder, to something more better . report abuse vote down vote up
p.crew July 09, 2008 http://www.pembaris.com Votes: +0	hey, where have u been lately? Your first article is somehow blocked by my company network. Anyway, what's RC stands for? say Jfusion RC2 or whatnot? Eagerly waiting for CB 1.2 stable release. Then I'll become subscriber haha. report abuse vote down vote up

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