Anyone have Joomla experience?

[skittles_of_SDC 0]

I'm not talking about just clicking buttons and adding content. Thats simple enough. I'm talking about full on custom skinning. I don't even really know where to start. If anybody knows anything about it your advice would be appreciated.

[theonlyski 3]

porn site going up i assume?

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I don't even really know where to start.

http://docs.joomla.org/


id say start with the "Absolute Beginners Guide to Joomla!" in the big yellow box on the right

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[skittles_of_SDC 0]

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porn site going up i assume?

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I don't even really know where to start.

http://docs.joomla.org/


id say start with the "Absolute Beginners Guide to Joomla!" in the big yellow box on the right

I did read that. It doesn't really talk about skinning though. And actually it doesn't look like i'll be doing the porn site. I haven't been contacted about it yet. I'm working on another site that would be perfect for it though. The guys don't know much about web design so this would make it real simple for them.

[theonlyski 3]

http://help.joomla.org/content/view/777/125/ maybe?

i dont know, real designers use notepad

usefull for php, mysql, html, js, xml... just about anything but flash and shockwave... but event then, you gotta embed it somehow

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[skittles_of_SDC 0]

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http://help.joomla.org/content/view/777/125/ maybe?

i dont know, real designers use notepad

usefull for php, mysql, html, js, xml... just about anything but flash and shockwave... but event then, you gotta embed it somehow

no, real designers use Dreamweaver, real developers use notepad.
I'm not using this for me. I can hack a basic website out in a couple hours. I'm using this to make it easier for the people that will do the actual updates.

[theonlyski 3]

screw them...

job security bitches....

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[xwind 0]

Joomla is crap.

If you like digging around in the darkest corners of the internet for help on a product with fakall documentation joomla is just the thing for you. Even the most trivial thing like adding animated menu buttons require digging around in some of the most undocumented code in the history of computing.

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[skittles_of_SDC 0]

Any suggestions on a better choice for a CMS?

[PhreeZone 15]

They all suck evenly. I've used Joomla for some projects, I looked at PHPNuke and realized it was a similar learning curve. Sharepoint is somewhat better but you can't afford that licence.

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[skittles_of_SDC 0]

That's good to know. Do you have any suggestions to make it easy for people that have no idea how to code to update a site? I know it's not really a good thing but right now I'm doing pretty much anything I can to remove code from the individual pages. Which usually means putting most of it in a referenced CSS file.

[PhreeZone 15]

Personally the editors interface on Joomla is not that bad for the back end. Get a plug in or two to make it a WYSIWYG interface its its pretty simple. I had non-computer users updating their own web page after providing 3 pages of instructions that was mainly photos. If they can not figure out how to log in, go to the editors console and create/update content there then they probably should not be allowed to update content at all.

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[skittles_of_SDC 0]

So none of them are that good but you would say they are fine for people that don't know much or anything about coding?