Tufuga Media

After nearly 7 months of using Joomla! as my content management system (CMS) or web platform, I decided to change to WordPress.  I’m a firm believer that its important to fit the tool to the job, and not the other way around.  I have decided to change the focus of my website a bit.  I believe that WordPress is better equipped to help me do that. (more…)

Over the last 9 months, I have been working as a part of our university’s web team. We have just rolled out a new design/structure of our website. This project was way overdue, and we’ve had to work through some difficult challenges, but we have created a great product.

My “title” in this project was “project manager”. I was involved in the conception, planning, and marketing of the site. I also created the design for the page. Randy, our graphic designer, then modified the design and really made it shine! Here are some of the rapid prototypes that I created. You can probably tell which one was used for the final design! (more…)

Those of you who are frequent visitors of the website will observe that I have redesigned the website.  I have changed platforms as well.  I am moving away from Joomla! to WordPress.  I will update this blog soon with more details as to why.  For now, leave comments as to how you like this website.  Mahalo! (more…)

I never found a step by step video tutorial on how to install Joomla, a popular content management system (CMS).  I design web pages, but I am not savvy when it comes to coding, servers and the like.  So in this tutorial I step you through how to install Joomla.  I show how to do a local installation on a Mac computer using MAMP, a free utility you can download from their site.  The steps I show are nearly identical for those hosting their websites on webservers.  Just be sure to have access to a CPanel or a way to create a database, and add users to it.  You will need the username and password, so keep them handy. (more…)

These are a few web banners that I have created for blogs and other websites.  Lots of Photoshop and Illustrator. These were used on a couple different blogs that I had.  One was my personal blog, one was my portfolio blog, and one was a blog I created for my projects at school.  The blogs these banners represent are being retired and replaced by this website.  They served me well, but its time to move beyond Blogger and into something a little more professional!