[AccessD] Joomla

I have been building database driven web sites  web site since about 1998.
My goal has always been to be able to have a web site that where my clients
could maintain their own content.  I had tried to actually use many
different CMS systems. I could not find own I like3d so I kept on developing
my own.  One day I ran across a site that I really like. I discovered that
it was using Joomla 1.0.    I installed it and started using  Joomla version
1.0.  It did not take long before I converted own of my own sites to using
it in production.  Shortly after that I stopped trying to create my own CMS.
I have now converted all my own personal and  company's  web sites to
Joomla.   Today I have many clients, besides myself,  that use Joomla and
are fully self-sufficient in maintaining their own site(s).  I have been in
the process of converting  all my clients to Joomla.  I have just a few left
to convert..   

There are lots of CMS's available. The key to success is in finding own that
you understand. Joomla was designed similar to the own I had been
developing.  So it was easy for me to pick it up.

Boyd Trimmell 
aka HiTechCoach at UtterAccess.com and other support sites
Microsoft Access MVP 2010 ( MVP Profile )

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence
Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2011 11:01 AM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Joomla

Hi Ken:

To be honest, I have never been able to get a client fully self-sufficient
and after 30 plus have basically given up on it. ;-)

Joomla, like DNN may not be the product I need. So far, when building web
sites I use ASP.Net to build the mock up/lay our and then go in and remove
the extra pieces (lots and lots of extra pieces as every possible option is
code managed), while stuffing in some of my own code. It is not a super fast
construction method but it is getting faster and it is quicker than building
the whole site from scratch.

I do not know if any other person uses this crude hack method but is there a
good pre-existing clean frame-work so I do not need to re-invent the wheel.

Jim



-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Kenneth Ismert
Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2011 6:43 PM
To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: [AccessD] Joomla

>
> Jim Lawrence:
> ...That does look like a very professional site... good job... with 
> Joomla huh...
>

It is a very nice site. You can whip up really good-looking stuff in
Joomla...

It's when you try to turn it into a full-fledged custom web app, or try to
get a customer self-sufficient on it, that you run into issues.

-Ken
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