Joomla for OrbiZart
February 26th, 2006 - 5:10 pm
I’ve been thinking of using Joomla to power my OrbiZart web site. Joomla seems really complicated to learn, but it is so powerful and I think it will do what I want it to do (and more). I think I’ll set up a test site over a OrbiZart and start playing around with it. The last time I played around with an install of it, it sort of gave me headaches. At the time though, I was totally uninterested in learning anything new about any new software for web sites. My mood on that has changed. Moving to a new host and upgrading my web site always fires me up a little bit. 
I went in search of gallery-type sites that use Joomla, and I ran across Wendy Robison’s beautiful web site which is powered by Joomla and Plogger (open source web photo gallery). Hers was the best example of a Joomla powered gallery-type site, and the photos are lovely as well. 
UPDATE:
Joomla is just going to be too hard to learn. I’m sure I could learn to use it, but none of it is intuitive for me … and that’s a bad thing. I am interested in seeing what I can do with Plogger though.
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2 Responses to “Joomla for OrbiZart”
I am playing around with Joomla on my other domain. Seems like you can do a lot with it. I’m not sure how far I’ll get with it, but I’m not in a huge hurry on that particular domain. I can usually pick stuff up fairly quickly, but then again, I’m working fulltime and am taking 10 credit hours of classes.
I’ve played with Joomla more than a few times, because it does look like it could do anything, but something about it doesn’t work with my brain. I think the problem is I haven’t had a lot of time to just sit and learn all about it, so by the time I sit down to mess with it again, I have already forgotten what I’d figured out before.
It is way cool though and would be perfect for what I want to do at OrbiZart … sort of an art magazine sort of thing and not just galleries of my work.