Sometimes, you hang on to the old stuff as long as possible. One of my clients had an joomla 1.0.15 site, which didn't change that much over time, so we hadn't taken the time to migrate to 1.5. Time to make a change...

The site didn't have troublesome extensions. It had a template which wasn't that spectaculair anymore. So upgrading shouldn't be too much trouble, and I figured it was faster to create a brand new look than updating the current template.

• Backed up the site.
• Installed the migrator in joomla 1.0.
• Created a joomla 1.5 directory, clean install of 1.5.25, loading the migrator script.
• Checked the new site, all data was there. No worries about module positions, messed up menus....
• Created a joomla 2.5 directory.
• Installed the brand new joomla 2.5.1.
• Installed the SP Upgrade extension and import from 1.5.
• Fixed menus, article settings, module positions...
• Installed a new template, made layout adjustment.
• Installed Rocket Gallery for displaying the pictures and created slideshow modules.
• Moved the 1.o site down, the 2.5 up and removed the 1.5-in-between-thingie. And done.

 I'm getting faster at this already.

So here's the new look: