Joomla???

This is the first I have heard of Joomla. Is it a good platform to use?

 

Yes, it was voted the best CMS, better than drupal. I think it is really good, I use it for my main site, especially if you haev a lot fo content so yo ucan easily change the tempaltesm, add new content etc

 

Yeah joomla is very good i use it with nearly all my sites.

 

I like it. I will implement it in my next website.

 

Can you guys show we an example of a site you have in Joomla? I guess I just don't really get what its purpose is.

 

check my sig

 

Yes and no - much like all CMS systems the templates that come with it and available online produce total GARBAGE for HTML.

Seriously, some of the steaming piles these types of programs try to pass off as a website is outright pathetic.

 

YOu can customize the templates big time, you can make a tabless design, css based template, whatever you want

regarding templates, there are some reallly good templates out there

check joomlart rockettheme .......

 

Oh yes, shall we? Let's talk their main page.
http://www.rockettheme.com/

Broken in large fonts, first header on the page is a h5, nested 6 div's deep before you even get to the logo (that should be three MAX), tables for elements that cannot even be justified for using tables in the first place, spans and presentational classname where labels should be used, THREE MORE nestings of DIV's just to get to the menu which shouldn't evne NEED nests since there's a perfectly good UL there, no graceful degredation of the javascripted accordion menus...

I'd ballpark about 50-70% of the HTML in that file being unneccessary, redundant and just plain wasteful... and that's BEFORE we talk CSS and javascript bloat. Nothing screams quality like 15k of HTML to present 2k of text content.

 

I agree with that, to many nested divs, rocket theme is good for the eyes but the code is massive, and probably not seo frienly like it could be

YOu can always customize any tempalte or scrape it from other sites

I mean the structure of joomla is really simple

you just have to insert php header, left, right, navigation and footer in the correct divs and voila you got a site

that is the poit of joomla

 

I've never personally used it, but from what I have seen, there are a lot of resources around.
I downloaded a bunch of templates from a torrent that looked nice, then realized they were for joomla and deleted them =\

I think I'll give it a try sometime.
What is there to lose. It's GPL, right?

 

Okay, so now my question is this. What is the best way to make this kind of a website that is both SEO friendly and attractive? I am a complete noob, so I don't know the route to take.

Would the best way be to make an adobe mock up, slice and disect the images, and create a CSS layout?

 

the easiest way is to borrow the design from other websites, the html, css, divs, images and customize it, that would be the easiest way. You have ot customize it right

 

The best way to start is to get a free template and install it. Then start playing with its code and see the changes each time you edit something.

 

All of the sites in my sig use Joomla and one of them is on the first page of Google for a term with over 400 million results. It's also 3rd on yahoo for another competitive kw and the whole site gets around 500 uniques a day.

I really think Joomla is absolutely fine for SEO if you do some very minor hacks.

 

Yeah! its' very effective and easy CMS! plus it's totally Open Source Program and flexible of themes as well!

 

i think joomla makes one of the best sites but fixing the pages is tottaly diffrent then any other sites its hard for me tho but i guess its easy for u guys

 

Drupal offers more imo.

 

I started with Drupal, I found Joomla kinda confusing.

 

I started with Joomla, I found drupal a little confusing