Joomla

[Praxeas]

Anyone have experience with Joomla? What can you do with it? Is it hard to use?

[SDG]

Anyone have experience with Joomla? What can you do with it? Is it hard to use?

It's a great CMS script ... I've dabbled w/ it a little bit ... it's modules and clean design make it very appealing ... they are presently lacking in integrating fully w/ forum boards like Vbullentin ... although a bridge hack is available.

[BoredOutOfMyMind]

It is open source and is great. You login in once on Joomla and it logs you on to VB also.

I looked at it for a front end here.

[Praxeas]

what about for church websites? I know there is a lot of modules for it...as far as content management what can it do for a regular website and one that you might have RSS feeds, updated content...can it work like PHP with a data base to make the website more interactive etc etc? Or random images or server side scripting to detect screen sizes and spit out the right style sheets etc etc?

[BoredOutOfMyMind]

what about for church websites? I know there is a lot of modules for it...as far as content management what can it do for a regular website and one that you might have RSS feeds, updated content...can it work like PHP with a data base to make the website more interactive etc etc? Or random images or server side scripting to detect screen sizes and spit out the right style sheets etc etc?

works great on Apache!

Are you installing Linux on the church box?

:evilglee

[Praxeas]

works great on Apache!

Are you installing Linux on the church box?

:evilglee
lol, no but our hosting server can enable joomla or wordpress...I was just checking our options for when I upgrade our website (if I can ever get everyone to say what they want and collect other information etc etc)

[BoredOutOfMyMind]

lol, no but our hosting server can enable joomla or wordpress...I was just checking our options for when I upgrade our website (if I can ever get everyone to say what they want and collect other information etc etc)

if you have the space, set up a test and see if it works.

[KwaiQ]

Anyone have experience with Joomla? What can you do with it? Is it hard to use?I use it a lot for the front page to Bible Talk Cafe.


Check out the functionality at www.bibletalkcafe.com

[Praxeas]

How do you update the news items? Is it a data base?

[ILG]

I've danced the joomla before. :D:shockamoo:rockband

[BoredOutOfMyMind]

How do you update the news items? Is it a data base?

RSS feeds

[Praxeas]

I want to use my own template and incorporate joomla into it. Is that possible? How do I make the template different?

[Praxeas]

I use it a lot for the front page to Bible Talk Cafe.


Check out the functionality at www.bibletalkcafe.com (http://www.bibletalkcafe.com)
I noticed you are using a joomla template. I want to use my own website and incoporate joomla functionality if possible. Can I do that?

Also anyone know if ruby on rails is anything like it? In other words I don't want to have to do a lot of coding. I want to get something up and running faster than having to be a jack of all trades for one website

[KwaiQ]

How do you update the news items? Is it a data base?

Log in as an administrator. Click the big add new content button. Write the article in the WYSIWYG editor, click save... your done. When you click save, it will bring you to a list of articles you have already created. It is almost as simple as posting a message to a forum such as AFF.