I have been banging out the Joomla sites. Not familiar with Joomla? It’s a content management system – much like WordPress. It is much more involved than a blog, though. A Joomla installation can certainly have a blog. Or a forum. Or a community membership.
I have certainly been dealing with the Joomla learning curve. It’s a steep one. I have stumbled many times. The newest version of Joomla came out earlier this year, and there are about 4 templates for the new version ( WordPress templates abound on the internet – both free and paid). Not only that, the templates themselves are a little bloated – meaning that page load times are affected. A page loading slowly is not what a client wants to see.
I learned some new tricks with G-zip compression, caching, and smaller image sizes – although I still believe the Joomla core can be cleaned up. It takes a long time to upload via FTP.
So I guess you are wondering what sites I have been working on – to end the suspense, here they are:
The clients love the ability to make changes easily to any text on the site, without having to know any coding. It is easy to upload pictures or text.
Here’s to more Joomla installs.