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My name is Cory, and I'm a domain name addict. There, I said it. Now I feel better.

I don't know how it started. It wasn't a big deal at first. Back when Network Solutions lost its grip (monopoly) on the domain name registration business, and the price of a domain name went from $35/year to down around $10/year, the cost of a domain name suddenly became much less prohibitive. I don't remember the first domain name I bought. I think it was probably CoryWebb.com. Once I bought one I was hooked.

Two-and-a-half years ago, I built a template toolkit for Joomla called Motif to aid in the development of custom templates for our clients. With Motif, we can build custom templates in a fraction of the time it took us to build templates before Motif, because it takes care of many of the repetitive tasks, and it comes with a set of shortcut functions that make a template developer's life much easier.

Fast forward two-and-a-half years, and we still use Motif on all of our clients' custom templates, and we love it. It's become quite painful to work on a template that isn't built with Motif because it is so easy to work with. I recently updated Motif to work with Joomla 1.6/1.7/2.5. During that process, I removed a few features that we never really used, and I added some features to make our job even easier. One of those features is an automatic LESS CSS compiler based on the php LESS compiler from Leafo.net.

Is Joomla a Do-it-Yourself CMS? Yes and no. Before I get into the question at hand, I want to tell you a story. A few months ago, I painted the bedroom that was to become my daughter's nursery. The picture that goes with this blog post is a picture of me painting the walls. All things considered, I think I did a decent job.