I've been a little ill lately, so I've taken the time to get to grips with the CMS (content management systems) that my hosting provides.
I thought it would come easy, seeing I know the ins and outs of blogger.com, though to put it this way, blogger.com is the bare bones and the content management systems I've been exploring are the fleshy bits wearing a hat and carrying a bag full of rocks.
I thought I'd be able to have a website up and running in a couple weeks, but it looks like I'm going to have to take my time with it.
So far I've tried out 3 content management systems, Wordpress, Drupal and Joomla. They all come packaged with my hosting account at Hostgator, I just had to install them.
Wordpress was to similar to Blogger for me so I thought I'd try out the scarier looking options.
Drupal was great, heaps of plugins (they call em modules) to add more functions to your site, though customizing the look of a template looked pretty tricky.
Drupal's very community driven and it seems very dependent on everyone who contribute keeping everything up to date with each new version of Drupal that comes along.
The one thing I really hated about Drupal was I spent a lot time tinkering around in the file manager on my hostgator account, at this point that's a very scary place to me.
Joomla is much the same as drupal, community driven, though there's a huge commercial side to it, half the templates out there cost money.
What I like most about Joomla over Drupal is it seems I can do everything I want from the Joomla dashboard thingy, upload pictures, edit the CCS and what not without having to go into my hostgator file manager thing, very comfortable and reminds me a little of blogger.com.
Well that's as far as I've come with creating my website and as I've realized it's going to take awhile to achieve what I want, it'll be back to blogging here a lot more.
Don't worry loads more paranormalness on the way.
I personally like Drupal best of those 3. I am still working on my Drupal site and deciding what exactly I want to do with it. I tried Joomla, but there was something about it I didn't like. I can't remember what that was now though.
ReplyDeleteI'm just flying in the dark at the moment, still trying to figure out if I can hurt the systems, or something like that.
ReplyDeleteI really like Drupal as well, much more intuitive than Joomla, though the problem I had with Drupal is I had to update the version and also change something in a file and I spent a whole night trying to figure it out, in the end I just reinstalled it and started fresh.
I guess it's just taking the time to get up to speed with em all. It's pretty exciting and becoming a little addictive lol.