Duke Nukem wrote: couldn't

decibel.places — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 02:23:01 +0000

Duke Nukem wrote:

couldn't even get passed the tutorial...

[grammar police]

couldn't even get past the tutorial...

Joomla is one of the more popular CMS, many publishers prefer its admin to that of Drupal, which is more diffuse but also more powerful.

If you are building every project from the ground up, you are probably repeating a lot of work each time.

Another advantage of using a CMS like Joomla or Drupal (or perhaps WordPress) is the wealth of plug-ins developed to provide specific functions.

I tried using Joomla and

Duke Nukem — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:44:08 +0000

I tried using Joomla and couldn't even get passed the tutorial... So, I just went back to creating my own DBs and and creating/editing my own web pages.

Some content managers are somewhat easy to learn, while others are a pain in the @$$ and a waste of time... Joomla was a nightmare!

I turely hope you have better luck with it than I have.

ok, figured it out - I had

decibel.places — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 22:14:53 +0000

ok, figured it out -

I had enabled SEF (search-engine friendly URLs - akin to Drupal's clean urls) and the extension (adds a meaningless .html to the url) AND Apache mod_rewrite which was rewriting my URLs as the alias + .html

I disabled mod_rewrite and the .html extension (the menu links worked with it enabled, but who needs to pretend it's an html site?). I kept SEF enabled and it's working fine, with a url like index.php/about-us

Why can't Joomla be more like Drupal? Oh yeah, because it isn't