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Originally Posted by nixgeek  ...Joomla! and others like Drupal and Wordpress are pre-designed, "canned" site solutions. |
Hence the review that I cited that said:
"...there are still people who prefer alternative web publishing methods like a content management system."
I'm not a Joomla user. When I've posted on discussion forums about Web site creation tools for ordinary Mac users in the past, I've been told about Joomla by Macintosh users who use it and recommend it highly for creating Web sites.
Apparently a "canned" solution is what many folks prefer. It isn't, by any stretch, what I would prefer to use myself. However, the fact that Joomla is very different than most other Web site creation tools isn't something that rules it out, in my mind, from consideration for creating a Web site. iWeb with its canned templates, is very different, and more limiting than, for instance, Kompozer. The latter being more like Dreamweaver or GoLive. It sounds to me as if Joomla is just further along the continuum between being a design program and creating a site based on a template.
Not having tried Joomla, I can only go by the reviews, and what others have told me about it. Apparently they all consider Joomla to be a Web site "creation" program. (Using that *exact* term.) Since it is free, it is easy enough for folks to try it out for themselves and see if it is what they had in mind. But your point is well taken, and users should be mindful of the fact that the program offers little or no creativity to be brought to the process and apparently the emphasis is on the content of one's site when using Joomla, not on its aesthetics.