> > I appreciate hearing about the differences among WordPress, Joomla, & > Drupal. I created my website in iWeb which will not be supported after this > year, and I've been trying to figure out what to do. I think I need > something more than WordPress, but I'm not really a techie. I kind of > learned what I needed for each step of what I did/do, and then crossed my > fingers that it would work (and also got help with some of it at the Apple > store). I'm not too happy to think that I'll probably have to start from > scratch (though there were limitations to iWeb that I didn't know until I > had spent a few months creating the site), and I'm not really interested in > learning any complex web design (like Dream Weaver, etc.). I see things like > Site Builder and Ruby on Rails on my hosting service - but I have no idea > how easy any of them are to use. Joomla sounds like it might be what I > should look into.
> Thanks, Patricia > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Martha Edwards <[email protected]> > To: "Caller's discussion list" <[email protected]> > Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 15:08:13 -0500 > Subject: Re: [Callers] contra dance webmasters unite! > Chip - I've been using *Joomla *for our site here in St Louis ( > http://childgrove.org) for about a year. For myself, it's the perfect > blend > of front-end ease-of-use for content updaters and back-end flexibility for > the designer-techie who wants to make the site jump through a few hoops. I > love it. I can do things I always needed to hire a programmer to do before > - > like make online registration forms that send you an email with the > registration info AND send the registrant on to PayPal (thank you, > Chronoforms!). > > However, since it looks as if, in the big Content Management Systems > shakeout, there are three popular survivors, *WordPress, Joomla,* and * > Drupal*, I've done some investigation into the other two as well. > > If the folks making the web site don't have a bunch of tech experience as a > web designer or programmer, I'd probably recommend *WordPress*. It's a lot > easier for non-techies to set up, and I've seen some spiffy sites done with > it. On the other hand, I also hear it's a lot less flexible for web > designer/programmers. In other words, if you want to do what IT wants you > to > do, it's GREAT, but if you want to do something slightly different, you may > be out of luck. That makes sense, though. I figure you get extreme > ease-of-use OR extreme flexibility, but not both. Don't know if you could > do > an online registration form with it, for example. Anyone have experience > with this? > > I can't imagine a contra dance group ever needing something like *Drupal*, > which (I hear) falls squarely in the techie (extreme flexibility) camp. But > hey, if you've got someone who knows it, rumor has it that it can do > amazing > things. > > Uh-oh, just realized that we're not already on the contradance web-stuff > discussion list. My apologies. > > So, in penance, and to keep the discussion about dance, I will include here > a link to my cute little double grand square Flash > movies<http://www.westendweb.com/doublegrandsquare/> > . > > M > E > > > >
