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Joomla, Wordpress, something else? Please advise

by JustaWizard
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Hi Warriors - I posted this in the webmaster/website section; and I hope the mods are okay with me posting here too because more eyeballs might see it here, thanks!

I've been doing all my websites for years in Dreamweaver - BTW, I'm a "garden variety" webmaster, I know HTML and use templates in DW.

Lately I've been studying Wordpress to be able to create nicer-looking sites faster, as well as to be able to more easily manage large (>100 pages) sites. Plus they have lots of great plugins, ping the SE's, etc. so there are some advantage that WP has over DW when it comes to site creation and management.

So my question is, before I get too far along "mastering" Wordpress, should I consider a different thing like Joomla (which I admit I've done zero research into) and I've heard that there's another platform (is platform the right word?) that's also popular?

In other words, if I'm going to have a learning curve, where's my time best spent now for future payoff in web design/management? - please do keep in mind I'm not a programmer, just a practical kind of guy who wants to know just enough to get the job done.

THANKS!
David Portney
#advise #joomla #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author Mohsin Rasool
    Hi David,

    Sure buddy from my own expereince i can tell you... Go For Wordpress :-)

    Yes I also started with frontpage, then dream weaver and then simple textpad coding,
    but Wordpress is really becoming my first choice for a quick site production...

    Joomla is good if you want to have a big content site, but most of the time
    Wordpress will be enough...

    May this help,
    Mohsin
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    • Profile picture of the author JustaWizard
      Thanks Moshi & ProductCreator - I appreciate the feedback very much.
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  • Profile picture of the author marketingmonster
    Go for wordpress. Spend more time on marketing and less on making the website.

    With wordpress you can do great things and easy to do with lots of plug ins. Check out the forum fo "best worpress plugins" and see the great results for making the website sell.
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    • Profile picture of the author JustaWizard
      Originally Posted by marketingmonster View Post

      Go for wordpress. Spend more time on marketing and less on making the website.

      With wordpress you can do great things and easy to do with lots of plug ins. Check out the forum fo "best worpress plugins" and see the great results for making the website sell.
      Thanks marketingmonster - in fact, my target goal for getting up to speed on wordpress is so that I can spend less time on website creation/management and more time on marketing!

      Is the forum on plugins located on this forum, or is that on a wordpress forum site? Please advise, thanks!

      David
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  • Profile picture of the author mywebwork
    The "other platform" you are referring to is likely Drupal, actually the term you were probably looking for is CMS (Content Management System).

    Again WordPress is probably your best bet, Drupal and Joomla are both excellent but are more difficult to master.

    Learn how to administrate WordPress sites and also learn how to modify themes and make effective use of plugins, with those skills you'll be able to create sites of every level of complexity.

    Best of luck

    Bill
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  • Profile picture of the author Jay Moreno
    simple sites you would probably be better of with wordpress, however for more complex sites use joomla

    personally i use joomla for everything
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  • Profile picture of the author BryanB55
    I was using joomla for a while and then switched to wordpress now for most of the sites I design. I think it has an even easier admin panel and is much better for SEO. I can pretty much do everything I want with wordpress that I could do with Joomla. I'm still not happy with any of the wordpress shopping carts though so I currently use a 3rd party shopping cart or a complete shopping cart program like x-cart or creloaded
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