What's the Scoop on Joomla?
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I would take at Drupal- it is an extremely powerful and customizable CMS. It has a pretty steep learning curve though.... I'm still plugging along through it.
-Chris
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Joomla!
Also, take a look at The CMS Matrix - cmsmatrix.org - The Content Management Comparison Tool to compare multiple CMSs at once
Also, take a look at The CMS Matrix - cmsmatrix.org - The Content Management Comparison Tool to compare multiple CMSs at once
Joomla rocks. There's only two things I don't like: you can only go so deep with sections and categories... in addition you can't apply a bunch of tags to one page of content like you can in wordpress.
I have a site done on Joomla (not yet live), and the back end sucks. It may just be me, though. It's just really confusing. That said, there are a ton of professional templates for Joomla here: Joomla Templates Club - Pro Joomla Templates & Designs - Club Templates
I am trying to find Drupal developers right now to do a big project for me, but they are SO hard to find. I am going to try and meet up with a few companies at SXSW. Otherwise, I hear really good things about Drupal.
Laura
I am trying to find Drupal developers right now to do a big project for me, but they are SO hard to find. I am going to try and meet up with a few companies at SXSW. Otherwise, I hear really good things about Drupal.
Laura
I'm a huge fan of Joomla and I felt like you Laura until I used it for a while. Now, it seems to make sense.
As for tags, there are several modules that allow you to add tags. Some free, some not.
The SEO has come a long way just in the last 4 months.
If you want an example of a Joomla Site, check my sig.
As for tags, there are several modules that allow you to add tags. Some free, some not.
The SEO has come a long way just in the last 4 months.
If you want an example of a Joomla Site, check my sig.
I recently started digging into Joomla and will be building a bunch of sites using it as a base. I also found a killer template club at Joomla Templates Club - Pro Joomla Templates & Designs - Joomla (includes my affiliate code in case you decide to buy). Very high quality templates and well worth the $ in my opinion (I bought the unlimited account).
Joomla is awesome for making community sites, lots of extensions made for it and a huge user base to help you out.
I haven't tried Drupal, I heard it gives you much more flexibility in what you can do with your site, but you might need a little more knowledge of PHP to handle it all.
I haven't tried Drupal, I heard it gives you much more flexibility in what you can do with your site, but you might need a little more knowledge of PHP to handle it all.
full ack.
still, both are way too complex if the only intention for using them is to setup a simple site.
at least joomla is more oriented towards community building, and although you can learn to master the administration environment pretty quick, it takes some time and conceptual work in advance.
integration with other common platforms like vbulletin is also a bit of a pain in the ass.
No offense, but if you cant understand Joomla then maybe CMS's just aren't for you. Joomla is one of the simplest CMS I have worked with... the backend is very well designed and easy to use. Just give it more than 10 minutes to figure out and you should be good to go.
Drupal on the other hand is a completely different story.... haha
Drupal on the other hand is a completely different story.... haha
was that directed at me?
well, i agree that joomla is easy to setup but what i said is, that you need to have the concept about your site right from the beginning. major structural changes can become a pain in the ass with joomla. despite that, joomla is a resource hog, if all you really want to do is to get like 50-100 pages up with nor further need for any community functionality.
i never gave drupal a try.
i have skipped using cms in favor of wordpress and vbulletin/vbadvanced anyways, as i experienced that those packages provided the most that i needed for my projects.
i will jump onto the cms bandwagon again, if someone can finally provide me a nice cms that has nice web 2.0 look&feel templates and functions
It wasnt really directed at anyone in particular I just read a few people saying that Joomla was too complex.
I agree 100% that Joomla is not for everyone's purposes. For larger sites, like you said, it most definitely is a resource hog.
If you have time and youre interested in learning something that will drive you crazy for the first week or so, check out Drupal- its got so much more flexibility than Joomla. What's also nice is you can basically strip down drupal to just the core (and I mean core) functionality so it isn't as bloated as Joomla.
I agree 100% that Joomla is not for everyone's purposes. For larger sites, like you said, it most definitely is a resource hog.
If you have time and youre interested in learning something that will drive you crazy for the first week or so, check out Drupal- its got so much more flexibility than Joomla. What's also nice is you can basically strip down drupal to just the core (and I mean core) functionality so it isn't as bloated as Joomla.
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