Joomla has a wonderful way to load modules - its all done inside the admin
No FTP and no unzipping the files.
Just upload and the system extracts and installs.

I have some PLR videos I bought. They are kinda tacky but I'll put them up until I get something better

The multimedia plugin I'm using is free and you can see the selection at the Joomla site
http://extensions.joomla.org/extensi...1/all%20videos

I'm using allvideo 2.5.3

The site is loaded - now for all the little mundane things like changing the meta information and turning on the search engine friendly urls in the Global Configuration panel.

See that loaded quickly

Now its on to the template

I have a membership over at
http://www.yootheme.com

I think I'll go pick out a template there to use.

I've had a list of niches I've been wanting to tackle for quite some time. Since we are in a new year, I thought I'd start one.

I know the diet and fitness niche has been promoted to death so lets see if I can break into it with this new site

I love Joomla - there is a learning curve but its so versatile that I think I'll use it instead of WordPress. Besides I want to build a site for the long term and that means expansion.
Its not that Wordpress is not expandable...

2009 a brand-new year. I remember when 2008 started I couldn't wait for the year to end. And now that 2009 is here it seems like 2008 went by so fast.
We always look forward to a new year starting, so we can start fresh. What have you done to start off 2009 right?

Have you created or modified your business plan for this year? If you have an online business creating a plan is really necessary. For most people though, creating the plan is the hardest part of the job. The first...