OPINION:What's The Learning Curve Like For Joomla?

Wordpress is very simple and easy to use. Basically you install it and just start blogging.

It's not difficult at all to learn to use Wordpress.

Is Joomla just as easy to learn? What's the learning curve like for Joomal?

Please share your opinion.

Regards,

Sunshine

 

Wouldn't anyone like to take stab at this question? Inquiring minds would like to know!

Sunshine

 

Joomla takes time to learn properly, though it's not difficult by any stretch of the imagaination.

 

Thanks for your opinion.

Regards,

Sunshine

 

It's not that difficult to learn. Once it's up and running you need to decide on your contents categories and how to link them to the menu. You will also need to learn how to display blocks (called modules) on your page's regions (e.g left, right, top, bottom, etc). Then you can work on the details like customizing layout, etc.

 

Thanks to both of your for your opinion. Battra, I had a look at your tutorials and they look pretty informative....something that I would come back to is I decided to go with Joola.

On the other hand Sarahk made a good point too: "If your site needs Joomla then do it, if WordPress is enough then stay with it".

Thanks,

Sunshine

 

The templating is the most worst cases I have with Joomla, do you find any articles or source around the net for templating Joomla on your own?? Mambo yes, but not Joomla.. And also, the permission case when you install mods, com etc, it use apache as default user, and you will get headache once you want to backup your files ..

 

Regarding permissions: isn't this a server issue, as opposed to a Joomla issue?

If it *is* a Joomla issue, then surely there's someone out there that can tell me how to get around this?

 

Permission is definitely server issue. When PHP is running as mod_php, joomla modules will be owned by apache.

TwistMyArm: someone posted a very useful script to reclaim 'nobody' files here. It works great for me.

 

battra:

Thanks a thousand times over for that link! I've been using JoomlaXplorer recently, but I just don't like the fact that I have to change the way I work (FTP vs. web-interface) just because my host doesn't trust its customers... anyway, I don't think I want to open that can of worms right now

Suffice to say I'll give that link a shot and if all goes well, I think I might set it up on a cron job.

Thanks!

 

Better to test it on dummy or tmp files first. I made a silly mistake of using relative path instead of absolute like the script author said and my files were deleted Lucky it was tmp files.

 

I'll give a test to that script, see how it works, thanks a lot mate

 

And the bad news is, I dont have SSH access with my host, then I cannot call the file, is there any other way ??

 

I found it fairly easy to use. There is a slight curve to what I am use to.
I work for a company who produces a corporate aspx CMS and use e107 myself so there is a difference but they are all fairly easy to pick up