It's finally up and running the brand new Gearstick Theatre website.

With a fresh new look, some cool new features and the ability for you to write your own reviews for our productions - it's all about providing an informative site for our audience that allows for feedback from the people who matter the most...you, our audience.  So take a look around and tell us what you think, we still have plenty of information to add to the site and we will keep at it so make sure you check back every once in a while - and don't forget to vote in the polls and review the shows you've seen!

The new website is powered by the Open Source Content Management System Joomla.  Joomla is one of the worlds leading Content Management Systems and best of all it's free.  But wait a minute, free?  Open Source? Content Management what?  What You Talking About Willis?

Content Management System is, in a nutshell, just a system that runs a website for you allowing multiple users to edit stuff online - a lot of websites these days are run via CMS.

Okay Open Source, what is it? Open Source is basically a movement of software development that promotes freely distributed software that end-users are able to fiddle with and redistribute as much as they want - for those of us that have no idea how to program software it really just means free software that millions of people around the world have developed and rivals most commercial products.  There is a bunch of software available if you are interested you need to check out www.opensource.org or google Open Source.