Hello, My name is Maggie and this is my website.

I live in Coogee in NSW, Australia. I have recently travelled to Ladakh in the Himalayas of Northern India to visit the nuns of the Ladakh Nuns Association mainly located in Leh and the nuns of the Gephel Shadrubling Nunnery located in Sabu Ayu. I have built them new websites in Joomla and taught the nuns how to update their websites. It is quite difficult to access the Internet from Ladakh as the Internet connection is slow and unreliable. The power is also very unreliable.

So I have built localhost Joomla installations for them in their nunneries, so that they can do their changes locally and then upload them to the Internet later. It is much quicker this way, although somewhat more difficult.

I am also buliding a new site for Playball Kids Sports to upgrade them from Joomla 1.0 to Joomla 1.5.  Dan from Soul Necta is doing the visual design which I will then build into a Joomla template to put over the new site I have built. - New "look" clothes to put on over the website. Not many people seem to be able to comprehend the difference between the "look" or visual design and the actual building and content of the website. I am a Website "Builder" not a Web "Designer" - very similar to the difference between a house builder and an interior decorator.

I'd am also attempting to document my journey through the Dhamma with my "Asia Travel Blog". So far I have made a few articles about my time in SE Asia last Dec/ Jan.   I'd also like to make an area for Dhamma content and Dhamma discussions. - But 'Forum' type software does not seem to be in great use amongst the teachers, ordained and yogi's that I have met. - There has to be a better way. - facebookish perhaps?  maybe a template chooser ?

I have decided to make some tutorials about using Joomla - the free content management system. Not for the person installing and setting up the site, but tutorials for people who have to put content into the site and update existing content to keep it fresh.