Why oh why do people still use Joomla, I just don't understand?? I try and steer clients towards Wordpress as much as possible but occasional I get one that absolutely insists on using Joomla and every time I make a site with it I remember how much I hate it.
It's very slow, bloody complicated, the URL structure is a mess, the backend editor is appalling and you have to pay for every plugin or they're just awful. I'm a professional who's worked with Joomla for years and I still have to google how to do stiff with it, how the hell clients (who don't understand the difference between HTML & PHP) ever mange to edit or add anything to it is beyond me!!
and YooThemes!! They take an already bloated and slow CMS pack on loads and loads of JavaScript and CSS and slow it down to crawl, some of their themes make chrome on my computer chugg along, how the hell any normal person running IE7 on a laptop navigate them I don't know. The documentation, although fairly comprehensive in it's own way, is just appallingly laid out and will take you ages to understand the bloody thing if you've never used it before. That and the fact it's a complicated framework on top of a complicated CMS means anyone who isn't a web developer is going to have to pay for their support just to set it up, (which only bugs me because it's marked as easy to use!)
...any way, rant over. Next site is wordpress thank god.
It's very slow, bloody complicated, the URL structure is a mess, the backend editor is appalling and you have to pay for every plugin or they're just awful. I'm a professional who's worked with Joomla for years and I still have to google how to do stiff with it, how the hell clients (who don't understand the difference between HTML & PHP) ever mange to edit or add anything to it is beyond me!!
and YooThemes!! They take an already bloated and slow CMS pack on loads and loads of JavaScript and CSS and slow it down to crawl, some of their themes make chrome on my computer chugg along, how the hell any normal person running IE7 on a laptop navigate them I don't know. The documentation, although fairly comprehensive in it's own way, is just appallingly laid out and will take you ages to understand the bloody thing if you've never used it before. That and the fact it's a complicated framework on top of a complicated CMS means anyone who isn't a web developer is going to have to pay for their support just to set it up, (which only bugs me because it's marked as easy to use!)
...any way, rant over. Next site is wordpress thank god.
