Sharilyn Horne Business Concepts: Portfolio

The Rick Amato Show (2006)

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Rick Amato hosts The Rick Amato Show, a weekly radio show in San Diego County, where he covers "real people, real issues, in real time."

Rick had initially launched his blog earlier in 2006 with TypePad, but sometime in the summer the site was relaunced on a Joomla platform. Rick immediately realized that was a big mistake, as he was unable to make many of the changes he was able to easily make with TypePad.

When he contacted me, he was ready to move back to TypePad, but with a more polished look and feel than he had started out with there. This is another great example of using TypePad's advanced templates to create a blog-hybrid site. While some of the ease-of-use of TypePad is lost when that switch is made, the end result is a much more custom web presence.

This was a challenging project - I was unable to find a way to port his entries from Joomla into to TypePad, so it was a lot of heavy lifting on my part that I didn't anticipate. I also had no experience with Joomla when I started.