I have installed Joomla and had a quick ook around, is it just a blog creator creating sites like blogger.com??
I thought it would somehow help you update a wep page you have made.
For example say i create some business a website “kklproperty.com” for ex. and this company get a new house on the market and they have to add the details and picture of that house onto say the front page of their site or whatever page they add it too, now being non-tech people they can’t be expected to work with html/css/js etc….out of the question.
So i was thinking what is the best way for them to update the site without contacting me, i could write a front end editor in php which woulnd’t be to hard to do which would allow them to add input some text and a picture say and the editor would add the needed html/css to the page, essentially i would be writing a CMS in php.
But i keep hearing about Joomla CMS etc….so i assumed it would be a front end editor that would allow me to edit my site i have created, but it doesn’t seem like that, it seems a stand-alone blog creator, is this right, i can hardly create a blog like site for a professional business to use….
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Am i going to have to write a seperate php CMS for every web page i design, i though joomla was like a general CMS that could examine your pages struture and allow you to edit the code etc……. I must have the wrong idea of what Joomla is…………….???
Your approach to “customise” a page editor in Php IS the professional approach to website administration!
Joomal is an over-rated CMS system, over-sized (26Mb), overkill, and, as far as I am concerned, a total waste of time: it takes as long to learn who to use it than to learn HTML, javascript, Php and mySQL altogether!!!
In the end, most clients give up using Joomla: they can’t understand it.
Programmers try to adapt it to their client’s need… and many fail: understanding 26Mb of code written by someone else is NOT an easy task, and finding “the” sub-function to change may take many hours, while the writing of a simple piece of code to do exactly the job you want… takes a few “minutes”.
Don’t forget: to use Joomla, you must be fluent in Php/mySQL.
If you are,… why do you use Joomla????
Beyond me!
I have re-written several sites written in/with Joomla, Miva, Ruby-on-rails etc, reducing the “volume” of code by at least 70%… and providing exactly what the client wanted.
My partner made this site http://www.londonedgelive.com/ with Joomla. His clients can edit the news page and basic text and their clients can make and edit their exhibit pages.
If your clients arn’t tech savvy you might have to teach them how to edit it but it seems simple enough once its all set up.
The Joomla website and forum are quite handy if you need help.
Joomla is more then just a blog site maker. It may have been dubbed that way since inserting information is done similar to blogging. You type what you want printed on a page and save it as an article, then you can manage what articles appear on which pages. With all of the extensions (modules) that you can add on you can do most any type of website imaginable.
The problem is that it seems a little too complicated to have a customer use it to update their own site. I have got the hang of it but to understand making new pages, sections, categories and articles and how they come together seems beyond the reach of someone who just wants to update certain parts of their site. I think it would be better to set up your own CMS that allows the user to do exactly what they want without them having to understand the complexities they go along with Joomla.