I'm kind of late to the party but I've finally started playing around with Joomla 1.5. I tried to do a site conversion a few weeks ago and managed to break nearly everything on this site. Thankfully the new, completely rewritten Joomla is cleaner and so packed full of features and supported components that I can easily recreate this site from scratch.

The only problem now? Transferring most of my content to the new site and tweaking a brand new template. So why the sudden kick-in-the-pants drive to convert? Well I'm working on a site project for someone else and I wanted to start with the latest and greatest version of the Joomla CMS.

Oddly enough I've noticed that the economy has affected even the free software sector of the net. A few years back you'd have to pay between $15-$50 for a site template. These days they are cheaper or as cheap as free. Awesome! Makes my job much easier.