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Originally Posted by cablebox
Joomla is a CMS (content managing system), it is, in other words, a site maker. Really the only difference with Joomla and lets say, webs, is that joomla you have to know how to use a ftp (and sometimes hosts give you joomla auto installers). Joomla is a bad idea. Your site wont be custom, i can think of 20 joomla sites with the same template off the top of my head.
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That and Joomla is customizable, extendable, and most importantly open source (and free). In fact, if he wanted to learn about web design, he could peek in the source code of the program and the HTML and PHP files it generates.
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When people come to me requesting a website, they show me there current website (joomla) and guess how many traffic? 0-10!
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Have you ever been to a website and gone "Oh, it uses a CMS! Not worth my time anymore." Can't say I have. If you can't design a better site by scratch (not trivial at all), why not use a COTS solution? There are
many notable sites that use CMSes to generate content, and their viewership isn't cut by that, nor is it "no work" or "thoughtless" to maintain such sites.
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My advice? dont use a site maker such as joomla, its not creative, you dont learn anything
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You won't necessarily learn HTML through Joomla, but it's a stretch to say you "won't learn anything" about web design. Especially if you extend it.
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...except that joomla is buggy. And if you want a login and stuff, code it in php. Its not very hard.
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It's a bit trickier to make a login secure.