Long time no post - getting there with Joomla!
Yes, it’s some time since I posted anything here. Apart from a vacation in Portugal and a couple of trips to the UK it’s been solid Joomla study and use.
It’s paid off well, I can see myself abandoning Wordpress as I become more proficient with Joomla. It all comes down to flexibility and the ability to do things. Wordpress is a weblog and a very good one, IMHO the best, but, Joomla is broader and can be applied to more situations.
As soon as I have spare time I am going to convert this experiences weblog to Joomla, in fact the whole of my newtojoomla website might just become a Joomla site.
What are the problems using Joomla
I found these problems with Joomla . . .
- The documentation is limited, which means that understanding the terminology is difficult
- Additional skills are needed to customize a Joomla installation
- you may need to purchase templates
- to make your own template a high-level of php and css skill is needed
- support for purchased templates can be limited when you want to customize them
- development work has taken longer than I expected
- serving of pages can be significantly slower than ‘hand coded’ pages
Don’t let any of these things stop you from doing your own evaluation of Joomla, it’s an extremely powerful and effective way to develop sites, and once you get used to the administration interface and know you way around you might even find yourself being reluctant to go back to hand coding!