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All Change - Again

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You'll be forgiven for thinking that I'd left planet Earth to visit planet Venus for some peace and quiet. But you'd be wrong. Over the past few months I've been beavering away, with Nigel's help, to create a brand new website for AMB Cote d'Azur. While I enjoyed creating and developing the last site, I always felt a little niggle that it was missing something important.

For those of you who have been following the growth of our website from its early beginnings in February 2004 to the present day, you will know that we've gone through various metamorphosis's. The discovery last year of the Open Source platform Joomla proved a rebounding success and much fun to work with. As you know, when something proves to be fun - it also provides endless creativity.

If you're new to our website and want to read my old blogs, you'll find them here

In many ways, offering up a totally different website, is much like a leap of faith. However, something came along that made me want to do so and I'll tell you all about that in my next blog.

 

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