Cool New Media is a tiny web design studio founded by designer, front-end web developer and web consultant Kevin Slagboom. We build simple, readable web sites on top of standards compliant code and we're located in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

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We Build and Manage Joomla! based web sites

Joomla! 1.5 - 'Experience the Freedom'!. It has never been easier to create your own dynamic Web site. Manage all your content from the best CMS admin interface and in virtually any language you speak.
Cool New Media uses NOVUS template

A quick thank you to Rhuk of RocketTheme.com for developing the GPL released template Novus. We choose Novus as the template to launch our Joomla based site as it looked nice and was a good starting point to develop upon.
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Cool New Media supports Joomla! based sites

Joomla

Joomla! is an award-winning Content Management System (CMS) that will help you build websites and other powerful online applications. Best of all, Joomla! is an open source solution that is freely available to everybody.

Cool New Media new specializes in both plain static websites as well as Joomla based dynamic web sites.

"The Joomla platform is well supported and the development community is very strong. New addons and modules are being build contantly. The possibilities are nearly limitless."
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Pure CSS navigation for better SEO

Cool New Media has upgraded the islandartisans.ca site with a pure cascading style sheet (css) driven drop down style top navigation system. This new main navigation bar has been optimized for both viewers and search engines, making the Island Artisans Association web site much more accessible.

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Cool New Media powered by Joomla! 1.5

Joomla

Today, Kevin rolled out the new Cool New Media website power by the Joomla CMS platform, a leading open source PHP/MYSQL based content management system.

"I chose Joomla as it appeared to be easy to work with and time will tell if that truly is the case. For this site release, I am using a stock Joomla install with a few addtional modules.

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Google Maps API

Google MapsGoogle has recently released more features for the Google Maps API. There are a lot of new mashup possibilities with this service and for location based businesses, the ability to add overlays to the maps will certainly help customer find store or product retail locations.

 
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