Let me come in here. Everyone has made a point. Yemo's posting of a joomla template sort of alarmed me when i first saw it considering the pic was not of his site and it looked like a site my friend created. It would have been much better if he posted a pic of his own site wether it was made on joomla or not. However, i can't fault him for using joomla. He is a WEB DESIGNER and not a WEB DEVELOPER. Web designers are not expected to code every website they create. They can if they want to but its not exclusively expected of them. I'm a web designer and i've used joomla and a good number of other open source software, free or not. They can be time saving with quite outstanding results. If you code from scratch, you'll have to look out for glitches and bugs and run several tests before release. The open source software are mostly finished stuff with very minor bugs. Saves time. Coding from scratch is also great because you have complete control over your work and is also unique. I somewhat agree with yemo on customers appreciation of a site. A good number of them cannot tell the difference between a site built on open source software and one coded from scratch. What they compliment is the finished product. Still its ok to code. Yemo, i still think your resumé/portfolio should contain a picture of your own site and not a general template. If you need help getting a picture of your site, i can help you out. I hope i've made my point.