Interesting Day, On the phone with a high end recruiter from a company called GroupM which I think translates into an acronym for a company called MindShare. A winding 90 minute conversation centered around my understanding of marketing in the NSO space and well as some of the highs and lows of being interviewed by recruiters for jobs in both the natural and paid search space.

In my conversation I realized how passionate I am about the changing space of marketing on the web and the irony of how corporate is getting to grips with the fact that it needs to create a new business model if it is going to be able to compete in the online sphere.

It is intriguing to me how things have come almost full circle and I hope to have a new opportunity to work in the realm of Search for some of the key corporate players in the field.

Later this afternoon I met with a possible client and walked him through the ins and outs of his website, which sorely needed a redesign. The end result, he in now my newest client and will be sending me a deposit to start work on redoing his website.

Spent the day orienting different clients as to the use of the Internet.  I have been migrating a bunch of friends over to G-Mail.  The issue here is the idea that people can access their email and their Content Management  backend from any browser, but the assumption that I have had that  people understand what it is that I am teaching them has been ill founded.

It is a tough thing to educate as well as manage expectations relative to web use at the same time.

I have stumbled upon Joomla now as a full and robust CMS (content management system) that is PHP as well as open source.  I have given the thought to migrating this WordPress blog to a Joomla platform.  The idea that I can build a fully functioning CMS website from scratch using Joomla with the type of power and control is a very attractive thing. I resurrected SturmunDrang.com from a holding pattern and brought the domain name over to BlueHost from Network Solutions and now I have Joomla ! loading and up and running is an exciting thing.

I am not entirely clear on where my knowledge of HyperText / HTML  took off, but I understand now that I have a very fundamental understanding of how things work on the web.  I have been delving into the guts of the Joomla tutorial and really starting to see how powerful and clean the CSS code in Joomla ! is a clear indicator of the depth and complexity that open source has become.