Why Did You Choose Joomla?

I’ve been playing with Joomla a bit and was stuck by the software’s sluggishness. This is a vanilla installation: no modules added.

Dreamhost’s warning that SEF might need to be disabled put me off. (Though I can put it on another host.)

And seeing that WordPress and SMF were Editor’s Choices for blog and forum respectively was a bit of a surprise.

My interest in Joomla stems from my interest in having a forum where registered users of one of my weblogs are automatically registered with the forum.

I could get this with Drupal but even that CMS’s supporters make it sound formidable and time consuming to master.

There are at least a couple of SMF/WordPress bridges. (Though that they aspire to be portals and not simple connectors puts me off.)

Since I see Joomla often mentioned here I thought I’d ask what made it your choice of CMS. This isn’t meant to be negative in any way: I’m just trying to clarify my thinking through others’ opinions. Whatever thoughts you might feel like sharing will be appreciated.

Thanks,
Richard

 

I chose Joomla because it looked like the best open source CMS available and I was able to find a bridge to vB (for $20 per year) that others were happy with. However, I'm seriously considering a move to WordPress now to replace Joomla.

 

Joomla! is not a good all-round portal, it only looks nice and has a bad SEO.

I use Bitweaver (www.bitweaver.org) instead...

 

Postnuke is the best among the open source, as i can prove it is best.

 

There's no such thing as the best CMS. It depends on what are your needs. For example, Textpattern is light-weight oriented, WordPress is blog oriented.

I prefer Drupal, and use it for most of my sites.

 

xdratings is the only reason I have gone to Joomla. In all honesty for a standard website I find it far too clunky and difficult. Some things have been done the way a coder would do them with very little thought to the average joe user.

e107 is still my favourite but my latest site is a review site and therefore i need joomla for cdratings as I dont have the time to dedicate to coding my own in e107

 

use seo advanced for SEO, JD-WP for blog into joomla, and mosets tree for your own directory, still not enough ?? Come on, Joomla itself is free, would you also want every single of it;s mods comes for free ?? Pull out some buck and get a life.

 

I don't quite get your post. What are you talking about?

 

i'm referring to kozuch82 post.

 

I agree with kozuch. The look of joomla's URL is not nice. There are a lot of FREE CMS that have friendlier URL's like Drupal por example.

 

almost everyone did not understand is, to apply third party sef components in their joomla, there are lots of them out there, paid or free, what you must do is not just install, rename your htaccess.txt to .htaccess, not just that, you must also uncomment and comment certain line in .htaccess file supplied with joomla to get that sef to work, that almost every newbie fail to understand.

 

which SEF-url addon do you suggest? OpenSEF?

 

open sef works great for me

 

rewlie, another die-hard joomla! fan? What i say Joomla is only an eye candy... unfortunatelly, for many folks this is enough. When I want an all-round CMS I:

1. look for a free solution including quality free plug-ins (you will save time finding commercial ones)
2. must be 90% out of the box ready

I found these prerequisities only at Drupal's, XOOPS's and Bitweaver's, while XOOPS has a bad SEO by default though.

 

Yes, i'm a big fan of joomla

drupal : their template is not so eye-candy, not suitable for almost any project, too simple, that's why i dont use them.

xoops : suitable for large project, and yes, their seo sucks

bitweaver ; never heard of it, maybe it's not so popular ??

 

Bitweaver is pretty new, formerly TikiWiki Pro. Check it out at www.bitweaver.org. I run couple of sites on Bitweaver and they perform pretty good.

 

Joomla! 1.0.9 is out now !! Go get them !!

 

Done

I think joomla has many positive aspects but it also has some negative ones. I’m using it for one of my sites and it is performing relatively well. A good thing about joomla is that there are many free extensions and templates. The joomla community is also very large so great for helping out.

 

Emperor : agreed, nothing is perfect, but we are looking for the best, wooo 1.0.9 is blazing fast in loading, but not sure about other thing, let me check it 1st, and also their cache system works perfectly now, so minimal response time should be addressed in this release.

 

Thanks for the responses and feedback.

Richard