Joomla - another simple content management system
After my mention the other day about WordPress being a good, simple content management system a colleague introduced me to Joomla.
Joomla is more complex than WordPress but it has more power. Because it’s a real content management system—unlike WordPress which is a blog with content management capabilities—you don’t have to customise it to make it look like one. Other people have also created templates you can use.
Like WordPress, it runs on an Apache server with a MySQL database behind it. And like WordPress, it is open source, so it doesn’t cost.
One thing I particularly like are the setup instructions. They’re simple, direct, and even a little bit fun.
I’ll give Joomla a trial run and let you know how I go.
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I interviewed a guy about Joomla a long time ago on Tech Writer Voices. Check it out here
I once met a lady on a plane who had a joomla powered site. Her biggest frustration was that she couldn’t (or didn’t know how to) customize the home page. Other than that, she loved it.
Tom Johnson / July 6th, 2007, 9:46 am / #
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