Joomla Content Management

Alright, so Joomla sounds like a powerful method for coding with the quickness. This is specifically the case when that developer is a master of coding a page by hand. Check it out, it happens to be pretty sweet.

I began my web design career the way most people do: I stole code. I guess it wasn’t really stealing, considering the majority of HTML code is open for viewing. I would take a look at a page’s source code, not having any clue on what I was looking at. I’d then cut-and-paste the code into Notepad documents, save them, and open them in browsers to see what happened.

What a long trip it’s been. CSS, XML, JavaScript, Java, PHP, MySQL, Solaris, Linux, IIS, Apache, Flash. The list goes on and on. No formalized training. I always looked at the source code, always cheated. Why reinvent the wheel, I asked myself.

Unfortunately, in the business of enterprise engineering, I’ve been forced to formalize my training. It’s one thing to know what you want to create, and an entirely different thing to know how to achieve it.

If there’s one thing I’ve learned in website design, it’s that quick turn-around is the key to happy customers. Modern business environments do not allow for downtime, and the desire for added functionality can have owners breathing down your neck throughout the whole process.

So, what’s a developer to do when his skills are so based in hand-coding?

Joomla Content Management System is just the ticket.

Joomla grew out of Mambo, an open source content management suite based on PHP and MySQL… Source: ryanhornbeck.com

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