[Jayx]

Originally Posted by Dusteh

The reason no one mentions Joomla is because its badly in need of an overhaul, although it has the most plugins and components, its all thrown together any which way. Anyone who has used Joomla, with Virtuemart and a gallery module plugged into it - and then tried to teach someone else how to use all the seperate backend functions - whilst avoiding the bugs, will feel the pain. Its just not a professional option. Its fine if you are running your own site asa hobby - its not something you can rely upon to be stable for selling - nor is it something I relish the thought of training people in using.

As I say, I myself have been avoiding it, but times change and I am starting to lag behind on the competitive front - so I have to start offering my clients CMS if I intend to stay in business. Joomla is in the middle of a re-write and not that difficult to get to grips with. I do understand what you say with regards to training clients to use it - that is why I'll only ever allow clients access to the front end (in other words copy and image changes), just to be sure they don't fuck it up too badly. I have looked at other systems and they all seem to require that someone more technical than me operates them.

I think we come back to what pgo was on about in one of the other threads about acquiring new skills while getting through your workload. If I had the time, I'd sure like to give Drupal a go - I have looked at it and it does seem powerful, but again I have some studying to do.

Thanks for the reply though Dusteh