I’m taking some time to catalog some (I think) neccesary upgrades to the basic install of Joomla.

• JCE – Joomla Content Editor – A better interface for your content creation areas. Allows custom CSS to be applied to the editor simply by creating a new CSS file in your template css folder and making it work for you.
• jCal Pro – while still lacking in event repeating, the interface is better than ExtCal, and the bots and modules are cleaner. Overall, it’s an improvement from the clumsy interface of ExtCal
• jPack – a Joomla one-click backup that allows you to migrate and then re-up the entire site. Great f you went to test, then deploy (as is the case with the UMT website.