So – the site has had a few incarnations of late.
As I find myself more and more time poor, I need to get smarter with the tools generally available and counter the progress of my technology investments/obsolesence…
I moved to Windows 7 (64 bit) and don’t have the funds to upgrade my software – so DreamWeaver is gone but the old site templates still exists (anyone know of an app that will read DreamWeaver templates?) so I have moved this site over to WordPress. [Learning Curve]
I’ve also used Joomla to set up a family friends site in a contra deal over solar panel installation [Another Learning Curve].
The common theme in both of these exercises is this:
- Both tools are easy to use
- WordPress is shinier in the back end
- Joomla is a bit trickier to master
- But generally both are great at getting a web site up and running; but the design of the site can be painful.
Yes, both WordPress and Joomla are free. Yes, there are lots of templates available for both. Yes, I’m not a compete numbskull when it comes to coding; yet I still struggled to get the best design available for either site – and I’m still struggling to get them ‘just right’.
So what does this mean? Stick with this site and hopefully one day it will be worthy of your attention and a great reflection of my mastery of WordPress or Joomla. In the meantime if you are looking to upgrdae away from static html and into a quasi CMS system you would do well to have a look at either…
Nick
June 2nd, 2010 on 5:54 pm
I tend to agree with the promise of a simple CMS or other back end system. Joomla and WordPress are very flexible but simply don’t divorce the need for thinking about how your site should actually look and feel.
Stick with it and you’ll get the hang of things…
JW