Posted by Because I just spent the entire day trying to customize it for two hours of paid work until I finally admitted the defeat and issued a refund. Sad day, there isn’t even time for my blog post today :/
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I’ve never really found a problem with it. I think it does have a slight learning curve but once you learn it, it’s like anything else.
I’ve never had any issues with Joomla. Once you get past that initial hump in the learning curve, it’s ridiculously customizable in nearly every way. You can extend it’s functionality with extensions, templates are VERY easy to create and modify, you can easily override module and component output. You can do nearly anything you want with it if you know it.
Since this was your first experience with it, I’d suggest you learn the system first before giving up on it and especially before taking any paid jobs requiring Joomla experience.
I just had my first experience with Joomla myself. I was ready to quit after a while of getting frustrated setting it up, links not working correctly, etc., etc. But once I got a couple of the problems worked out it was a breeze. I like the customizability (is that a word?) and the ease of using the modules to pull in information that before I was not able to include on a site. I can’t wait now to work up another template for the site and get it to work as good as the first. Although I have yet to find a good slideshow plugin/extension for Joomla. Anyone have any suggestions?
@Jason, that was exactly the problem, no good slideshow plugin
@all. Everything is customizable. Wordpress is customizable. Howver Joomla – the backend is pure UNUSABLE. For me to change one page, I had to go to 3 sections of the CMS all over the place. For someone with over 10 years of experience – it should’ve been no problem for me to at least navigate the CMS. I picked Wordpress up in less than 5 minutes. I spent over 5 hours in Joomla and still can’t tell you where those damn content pages were! Not only that, but the templating structure made it that you couldn’t fully customize the navigation to add an outside page with lightbox, unless you put it in the nav file behind everything else. Ridiculous.
I tried Joomla and had the same problem, it’s just not user friendly. It seems that you have to do everything three times to do it once… : P
But I’m still ready to learn it if someone’s site needs work and it’s already hooked up with Joomla. Otherwise, I’d go Drupal. I haven’t messed with the Wordpress CMS much, but it looks good.
Thanks for the warning!