I have a friend who would like me to consider designing a Joomla based website for his company because of a recommendation from another mutual, tech-savvy friend. Unfortunately, I don’t know enough about Joomla to speak intelligently on the subject. Are there any disadvantages to working with Joomla, aside from being locked into specific templates?
Also, do Joomla templates typically employ RWD?
And finally, do any of you use Joomla on occasion and why?
Joomla is free, regularly and rigorously updated and the array of extensions that install and set up easily, allowing you to a add powerful features to a site at will. You can use a single template or multiple templates in a single site.
You’re not locked in to specific templates. Aside from the thousands of templates available, many free, many quite nice. You can build your own. there are very good tutorials available on building joomla templates. there are joomla actions for freeway, but I don’t know that they are compatible with the latest version of joomla.
On Oct 17, 2012, at 10:24 AM, RavenManiac wrote:
I have a friend who would like me to consider designing a Joomla based website for his company because of a recommendation from another mutual, tech-savvy friend. Unfortunately, I don’t know enough about Joomla to speak intelligently on the subject. Are there any disadvantages to working with Joomla, aside from being locked into specific templates?
Also, do Joomla templates typically employ RWD?
And finally, do any of you use Joomla on occasion and why?
You may want to look at MODX Revolution http://modx.com also. I did a quick FW integration test and posted the result online along with admin access to the MODX control panel a couple months ago. It seemed to work fine though I have not done extensive testing. MODX is pretty sweet from a designer’s perspective but it’s a hands-on CMS, it’s not all point-n-click simplicity. A lot of plugins though not as many as Joomla. It’s a sleeper CMS and also free. Plus they just launched the MODXCloud (paid) http://modxc;oud.com service. Pretty slick.
I find freeway best for relatively static sites.
For my musicians that are constantly adding and changing material including audio and video, updating calendars, selling tickets, selling direct downloads, scheduling students, I prefer Joomla
On Oct 17, 2012, at 10:50 AM, RavenManiac wrote:
Ginjg, I’m assuming that if you’re a member of this forum you use both. Why would you choose FWP over Joomla and vice versa?