I appreciate hearing about the differences among WordPress, Joomla, &
Drupal. I created my website in iWeb which will not be supported after this
year, and I've been trying to figure out what to do. I think I need
something more than WordPress, but I'm not really a techie. I kind of
learned what I needed for each step of what I did/do, and then crossed my
fingers that it would work (and also got help with some of it at the Apple
store). I'm not too happy to think that I'll probably have to start from
scratch (though there were limitations to iWeb that I didn't know until I
had spent a few months creating the site), and I'm not really interested in
learning any complex web design (like Dream Weaver, etc.). I see things like
Site Builder and Ruby on Rails on my hosting service - but I have no idea
how easy any of them are to use. Joomla sounds like it might be what I
should look into.
Thanks, Patricia
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Martha Edwards <meedwards(a)westendweb.com
> To: "Caller's discussion list" <callers(a)sharedweight.net
> Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 15:08:13 -0500
> Subject: Re: [Callers] contra dance webmasters unite!
> Chip - I've been using *Joomla *for our site here in St Louis (
>
http://childgrove.org) for about a year. For myself, it's the perfect
> blend
> of front-end ease-of-use for content updaters and back-end flexibility for
> the designer-techie who wants to make the site jump through a few hoops. I
> love it. I can do things I always needed to hire a programmer to do before
> -
> like make online registration forms that send you an email with the
> registration info AND send the registrant on to PayPal (thank you,
> Chronoforms!).
> However, since it looks as if, in the big
Content Management Systems
> shakeout, there are three popular survivors, *WordPress, Joomla,* and *
> Drupal*, I've done some investigation into the other two as well.
> If the folks making the web site don't
have a bunch of tech experience as a
> web designer or programmer, I'd probably recommend *WordPress*. It's a lot
> easier for non-techies to set up, and I've seen some spiffy sites done with
> it. On the other hand, I also hear it's a lot less flexible for web
> designer/programmers. In other words, if you want to do what IT wants you
> to
> do, it's GREAT, but if you want to do something slightly different, you may
> be out of luck. That makes sense, though. I figure you get extreme
> ease-of-use OR extreme flexibility, but not both. Don't know if you could
> do
> an online registration form with it, for example. Anyone have experience
> with this?
> I can't imagine a contra dance group
ever needing something like *Drupal*,
> which (I hear) falls squarely in the techie (extreme flexibility) camp. But
> hey, if you've got someone who knows it, rumor has it that it can do
> amazing
> things.
> Uh-oh, just realized that we're not
already on the contradance web-stuff
> discussion list. My apologies.
> So, in penance, and to keep the discussion
about dance, I will include here
> a link to my cute little double grand square Flash
>
movies<http://www.westendweb.com/doublegrandsquare/
> .
> M
> E
