--- In [email protected], "Mike Hudack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm not sure I agree with that. Content management systems are designed > to help non-programmers build Web sites, aren't they? Isn't their > purpose to abstract all that dreck? > Mike,
Yes. That is their purpose and sometimes they achieve it. Good point though. The more I see of this thread, the more I realize that there is a broad spectrum of CMSs that range in complexity as well as quality. I have a friend who develops in Drupal because it has some kind of community development functionality. OK. Escapes me. He loves it. He took a stab at Joomla! and found it confusing. I have been working in Joomla! because I find it flexible enough to do what I want it to quite easily. And I am not a programmer or developer. I am a documentary film maker. >From what I have been able to see, Joomla! and Mambo, in spite of their silly names, are sensible systems that are not for everyone, but they do make it possible for non-coders or non-programmers (like myself) to muck around and get the results they seek. I could have gone with Dreamweaver, Front Page, etc. I chose Joomla! because it was free, I liked the templates, and it seemed easy enough to learn. When I first started putting video on the internet, a little less than a year ago, I thought WordPress was over my head so I went with Blogger and then TypePad. Then moved over to Joomla! in August because I wanted a menu-driven content system and blogging software did not lend itself to that without an awful lot of kludging. To tell the truth, RSS and MRSS both escape me for now. Joomla! allows me to send email to registered guests whenever and however I want. And I count on search engines to bring people to my site. My visitors have absolutely no interest in looking at my site on a mobile device. A good streaming Flash at 500 kbs works fine. Joomla allows me to focus on the content -- the text and the video. Stan http://hestakaup.com
