Barrie North

Barrie North has over 15 years of experience with the Internet, as a user, designer, and teacher.

A certified teacher.  He has spent over eight years in the education field, becoming steadily more involved in web technology and teaching technology integration to teachers and worked as an IT consultant for two new schools pioneering in the use of technology.  As well as template design, he has provided web marketing/SEO, usability, and Joomla! training classes for his clients.

He is currently a partner of Joomlashack.com, providing templates and custom services.  He also maintains a blog about all things Joomla! at compassdesigns.net.  In 2008 he launched a new company, Simplweb, which provides turnkey Joomla websites for small business, schools and other industries.

He has written many free tutorials for using Joomla and is a frequent speaker at Joomla events. In 2007 he authored the best Selling book "Joomla! - A User's Guide", just about to be released in its second edition, along with "Livelessons - Fundamentals of Joomla!", a complete video training series for Joomla!

Barrie will be leading the workshop: Black Belt Joomla

Barrie is presenting the workshop Search Engine Marketing Smackdown