I have just migrated http://tomleonard.co.uk to Joomla 2.5, from 1.5 which was too old to be secure.
If you do have to migrate, I can strongly recommend using sp_upgrade to copy the data over. Also, its worth checking if the template you used has an updated version for the more recent joomla as that does make it a lot easier.
My business wouldnt be the same without 2 cloud services, Teamlab.com and Freeagent.com.
With Teamlab.com you can create many projects each with milestones and tasks and assign them to team members who are auto emailed on changes, or when someone adds a comment. I find this feature very useful as keeping track in emails can be quite tricky. It can also host a wiki and allow you to store and edit documents on the site. They seem keen to expand on the site too.
My accounts and book keeping is made much simpler thanks to freeagent.com. I use this to track the time I spend on a particular contract and then generate the invoice for it. It also file VAT returns and the PAYE RTI stuff. Very useful time saver.
I am migrating this web site from Joomla 1.5 to Joomla 3. Hoping this will look slicker. Enjoy!
Having had websites hacked in the past, I have now moved to using a lot more automated checks. I have found it useful to produce a daily email report of any files on the server that are added, deleted or modified in the last 24 hours. My next set of checks is to report any changes in the links on each website. This can be done using curl and PHP to basically create a spider and crawl the site from the outside. No doubt I will have to do more but these ones so far can help detect changes quickly after the event.
We are starting to develop a website to help people to choose and track their pension and other investments. We are looking for people to complete a short survey to give ideas what would be helpful.
http://freeonlinesurveys.com/s.asp?sid=vhkmp6a8n64hxm79655
It takes about 5 mins and would be a great help to us.
Thanks a lot
Steve