Simple fixes to flow on Joomal site

We have a website at http://www.openthinkingsystems.com. It uses Joomla as the backend. There are currently several issues that mostly stem from our unfamiliarity with Joomla. They are as follows: 1. When clicking on either the "Products and Services" or its submenu item "Open Project" there should be a list of products with a link to a page dedicated to that project. Right now, the "Open Projects" page has too many clicks to get to the info. You click on "Open Projects" then on "Products" then you have a list of articles that are the product. We want this list to appear on the main page, and no "filter" ability. This needs to be fixed for Open Projects and we can duplicate it in the other "Product and Services". When fixing this a key should be making it easy to add new projects to it. 2. The submenu item "Open Projects" only appears on the top menu bar. We'd like it to appear on the left menu when on the pages as a sub menu item. We are using the Venture template from Pixel Point Creative ([login to view URL]://[login to view URL]). From what we saw in the demo, it is possible to make this occur, but we cannot get it to work. This is probably very easy for a Joomla designer, but we just can't exactly figure it out. Any other suggestions for improving flow of the site is appreciated. ## Deliverables 1) Complete and fully-functional working program(s) in executable form as well as complete source code of all work done. 2) Deliverables must be in ready-to-run condition, as follows? (depending on the nature? of the deliverables): a)? For web sites or? other server-side deliverables intended to only ever exist in one place in the Buyer's environment--Deliverables must be installed by the Seller in ready-to-run condition in the Buyer's environment. b) For all others including desktop software or software the buyer intends to distribute: A software? installation package that will install the software in ready-to-run condition on the platform(s) specified in this bid request. 3) All deliverables will be considered "work made for hire" under U.S. Copyright law. Buyer will receive exclusive and complete copyrights to all work purchased. (No GPL, GNU, 3rd party components, etc. unless all copyright ramifications are explained AND AGREED TO by the buyer on the site per the coder's Seller Legal Agreement). ## Platform Joomla 1.5