This was/is my first Joomla website and first CMS.

http://www.nutracea.com

OK go easy on me here please.
Although I've been a web designer for awhile now, I started this as a complete novice to PHP/MySQL.
Tested on FireFox and IE7 only.

And if you really like it I guess you can vote for it:
http://www.rockettheme.com/option,com_smf/Itemid,190/topic,27891.msg158079/#msg158079

I do realize that it is a mess in IE6 and normally would develop for this browser...but in a Corp. environment it wasn't pressed upon me to make it work in IE6...made my work much easier...not having to be backward browser compatable. Although if I do get the time (yeah right) I will see if IT can get me another box with IE6 on it...so I can fix it.

Additional Extensions (Components, Modules, Plug ins):
JCalPro - complete redesign of standard template for consistent website look
sh404SEF
VirtueMart - quite a bit of customization
XMap - sitemap in footer

JW Simple Image Rotator
SectionNav - mod_sectionnave
JCalPro Latest Events
Content Item - mod_contentitem
Gavick Featured Content Slider 3.0

MosSnippet - used for code snippets and stock symbol pull from Yahoo
JW Tabs & Slides Plugin

Custom Development:
Quite a bit of custom work went into this as I am very particular to details and making sure it all functions the way it should.
Took quite a while to learn and make it all work.

Specific customization went into the News Archives archives section to display all news in according to Year (4 years worth)...as I found no help or nothing to be able to create the type of Yearly News Archive I wanted. And even this isn't exactly what I wanted, but was closest I could get.

Getting Highslide and jQPanels to work with this template took some major thought, trial and error. It's not perfect but it works ;-)

The Sliding Content on the homepage was another creative customization implementation with the use of Gavick Featured Content Slider 3.0. This work was a little taxing because of the limitations of content placed on the homepage and getting it to work with the pathway (breadcrumbs). The slider is 4 different pages of "Static Content" which loads the module using mosloadposition.

Other Features:
News Room / Archive - http://www.nutracea.com/News/2007News/
Highslide Photo Galleries:
http://www.nutracea.com/Facilities-MermentauLA
http://www.nutracea.com/Facilities-LakeCharlesLA
http://www.nutracea.com/Facilities-IrgovelBrazil
jQpanels (using jQuery) - http://www.nutracea.com/BoardOfDirectors - I suspect this to be the major breaking in IE6?

Any specific areas of my site that I'd like feedback on, if any: All comments good or bad are welcome, for sure.

Additional Comments:

This was quite the learning experience and very interesting work. I did have fun doing it.

Thanks,
TheWebGuy

Very smart. The year thing in the archive is a nice idea.

Very impressive!

Well I will be interested to see how you transform Hivemind, that's for sure! Looking forward to it!