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George Huff
peddler of ideas and all things that are good
I am a digital geek; equal parts designer, builder, and ideator. I am the co-founder of a interface design shop in Portland, Oregon called We the Media. We do amazing stuff running the gamut from systems design to application development to interface design. If you would like to work with us, drop me a line.
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I would ignore Joomla and focus on Expression Engine. It is unbelievably powerful!
Thanks for the feedback. I looked up expression engine and from the first 10 google results it looks like they are comparing it to movable type. So is it more of a blogging engine? Or a full CMS?
(Unfortunatly I cannot ignore Joomla at the moment)
I am sort in the same Dilemma, You could make use of the Run Digital 508Hack it removes all the tables. Downside is it supports only Joomla 1.0.7 and not the latest 1.0.10, but since 10.0.10 is a maintaince releases it doesnt matter matter much. Or go get Drupal. Why go for a commercial CMS when there are so many excellent Opensource CMS available.
Ahh, I see. I thought Joomla! was an opensource option?
There are some weird things about Joomla! that are set as default. I had to find a plugin to give me SEO friendly page titles. I’m still not sold. The unfortunate thing is I had to put my learning on hold for a week, and now I am dreading picking it up.
I’m with Hadley on this one. I’m a very avid Joomla user because it’s very simple to use its dynamic abilities. However, in order to customize , it’s a beast. But with Expression Engine it is very simple to use your own CSS and its’ {exp:} language to make all sorts of cool things in your CMS. It also allows you to make custom lists for your end user to input information. Joomla makes you use pre-defined list fields in your content areas. I’m gradually switching from Joomla to Expression Engine.