[Hidden-tech] My First CMS Site

[Andrea Tarr at Tarr Consulting]

With your background Joomla is easily within your range. 

What capabilities do you need for this website? What are your long term
goals for learning a CMS?

If you just want to develop one site and it's a simple blogging site or an
easily updateable brochure site, then Wordpress would make sense.

If the site is more complex or you are planning on developing more CMS sites
in the future, then Joomla or Drupal would make more sense.

I'm a strong Joomla advocate myself. The bar to entry to creating a good
looking, functional site is much lower than Drupal. You can be a developer
of complex sites in Joomla without needing to know more than how to
copy/paste a couple lines of php. And if you do know programming, the Joomla
framework with its object oriented PHP and its use of objects rather than
complex arrays is much more fun to program in.

There's Joomla user group that meets every third Wednesday at 5:30pm in
Brattleboro at the Marlboro College Graduate Center. We have an active
google group joomlaug at googlegroups.com.

Andy

Andrea Tarr
Tarr Consulting
www.tarrconsulting.com
 
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> I'm interested in developing "my first" content management site.
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> Can anyone tell me what the best technology for me to begin with is
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> Drupal or Joomla (or suggest another)

WordPress is probably a better technology for a *beginner*.  Drupal or
Joomla are both fairly complicated and neither are really 'beginner'
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> My experience includes .asp, .aspx sites, vb.net, ms access, vba,
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