Joomla anyone?

[GSeybold]

I just downloaded Joomla and I just don't get it. Seems like an unorganized web creater. Anyone have any luck with it? Is is a waste of my time?

Thanks so much

Gabby

[KevinL]

it's eye candy..thats it.

[Roms]

I tried it and really wanted to get it to work.... but it's buggy and not very secure. IMO Don't waste your time.

[GSeybold]

Thanks Guys

I just uninstalled it. I thought it was very unorganized and unclear.

Gail

[Magnumutz]

Ya' know, i was just toying with it the other day... but it looks like vBAdvanced is still better for vB than Joomla is.
It COULD get better, but at the time vBAdvanced CMPS is the best out there.

[GSeybold]

Yes I was just looking a VBA a few minutes ago. Do you think a newbie can learn it?

Thanks
Gabby

[Magnumutz]

It's easy... you don't even have to learn anything... it's just plain simple.

[UncoderMom]

I have used Joomla for years. Its what powers my .com page.

I also use vba for forum stats etc and to create pages and have the modules side bar. VBA is way more then just a portal page. In fact its the least important reason I use it. LOL

Joomla, to me is a very powerful resource once you get to use it. Its very flexible and the only problems I have ever had was an exploit with a plug in. You know what they say about those. haha Its not very user friendly on the admin side... there is a learning curve but once you get that down the possibilities become endless with it.

I bought a plug in that connected it to my vb database but I had to disable the vb registration and use the joomla one. I didnt like that so I just gave up on it for now.

[Wayne Luke]

Tried it back when it was Mambo.. Didn't like it.

It split off and became Joomla and was supposed to be easier. Tried the 1.5 version and didn't like it. Moreover didn't want to spend the learning curve on how to use it or spend hundreds of dollars for the addons needed to do what I want. Someone will say there are free addons but none of the ones I tried work or they were complete garbage that looked like they were coded by a 3 year old. Only addons that seem to work are the expensive ones. One company wanted $150/year to add a recipe database to a site. I would have been willing to pay $50.00 if it was good but not $150.00.

Anyway, after Joomla, tried Drupal. It was better. More modules and more were free. However the 5.X system is a hell of a pain to style whereas 6.X didn't have the modules and had an inefficient menuing system that caused hundreds of queries if you wanted to use custom menus. Actually thousands of queries with the menu setup that I had. Somehow menus with 24 categories with 8 primary and an average of 3 secondary categories each resulted in 5800 queries on page view in the 6.X version whereas it was only 120 queries per page in the 5.x series. Developing and using Drupal on the site would have also required too much maintenance as there is a security notification at least every 3 days and you need to know PHP.

Then I tried Wordpress. Most will tell you this is a just a blogging platform. But if it is only a blogging platform, it is the most powerful one in the world today. With some theme changes and maybe a couple of addons you can turn it into a powerful CMS as well. Themes are easy to manipulate even with little knowledge of PHP. You can do most of it right in a single CSS file though there are thousands of free and commercial themes available off the shelf. From there you can add widgets, plugins and template filters to make it do what you want. A magazine site that I worked on for 6 months in Drupal, took 6 hours to replicate with Wordpress and that included reading the documentation, downloading the software and figuring out how to use widgets and plugins. The only issue with Wordpress is that its user permission system is a little lacking off the shelf because it wasn't meant to be used by multiple users. Luckily there are a couple of plugins that can fix this in about 30 seconds for you. Literally 30 seconds from download to live on the site with the new version.

Anyway... Drupal shows potential and the big push with development is to make it usable by common people. I continue to follow the project. However Wordpress stands out and can handle a wide variety of sites. Even has a vBulletin bridge available on this site. The power of Wordpress is often overlooked because it is a "Blogging" platform.

[iAnj]

Joomla is a time waister in my opinion. I prefer wordpress.
Joomla is too unorganised and hard to find your way about. Way tomany options in menus but mostly for the same thing lol!