wait for it....
That is the question! 
Not necessarily an original title, but it sums up the point I'm about to make. As some of you may have noticed, Montano Designs got a little web botox a couple of weeks ago. You know the saying about the cobbler's children having no shoes? Well it's the same with web designers. If you're any good, you don't have much time to work on your own site.
I've recently been creating a lot of Joomla 1.5 sites and have begun to fall in love with it's features and new website smell. I was afraid that upgrading my site would be a royal pain so I delayed the inevitable. I found a great component that I've blogged about here that made the migration really easy.
An interesting byproduct of the upgrade was a dramatic increase in website traffic.
The above graph is a comparison of the dates 8/20-9/12 and 9/20 (upgrade date) to 10/13 (today). You'll see a 61.33% increase in visits, a 76.99% increase in page views and a 9.71% increase in pages viewed per visit. That's AMAZING! I didn't change any of the content, I just displayed it differently. My once hard to find web design articles and blog were brought to the front. I changed the portfolio to be more user friendly and I tweaked the template.
Joomla 1.5 is much cleaner code. It is easier to manage content and menu links. And with the exception of one major security hole (now fixed), it is much more secure than previous incarnations.
My personal recommendation is upgrade, that is the answer!
