I've grown to pretty much despise anything that JoomlaXtc puts out...all of it is buggy and support is very limited. Matt, what's up with your site down for maintenance? I wanted to have a look!

Rich

Ditto

This is an excellent site. It's good to look at and the content is easy to find. However I have one issue with the site and that is efficiency and performance. I would recommend using something like Yslow and use the Yslow (V2) filter (not the small site/blog) to rate your site. Unfortunately Joomla! ranks low by default. One thing that I like to do is attempt to eliminate as many of the HTTP requests as possible. You can try CssJsCompress ( extensions.joomla.org/extensions/site-ma...A7czozOiJjc3MiO30%3D ) to minify, compress and attempt to move the JS to the bottom of the page. However,t his can be troublesome with many of the modules RT has.

I also live SpriteMe ( spriteme.org/ ) which helps in making fewer HTTP requests in the images department. I usually do even more work beyond that to further optimize sprites.

Also a good read on Data URI's here ( www.nczonline.net/blog/2009/10/27/data-uris-explained/ ) explains how you can "embed" images and other externals that would typically be called using a HTTP request within the CSS file! This has implication on IE browsers earlier than 8 so the draw back is you need to either design a seperate IE7/IE6 stylesheets with images not URIs, or you can use MHTML ( www.phpied.com/mhtml-when-you-need-data-uris-in-ie7-and-under/ ).

Hope that helps. Performance of sites always takes the longest time for me personally...seems to be an ongoing thing.

Jeff