Joomla 2.5.6

of course Joomla! (1.0.x) is not the best CMS when it comes to terms of accessibility, clean code and stuff... BUT I haven't found a CMS you can add so much functionality by adding components and plug-ins (e.g. the JCE editor is way more powerful than its parent TidyMCE). If you want a 'page'-concept and only text and images, Joomla is not the right choice for you. AND (what is more important) I had no trouble teaching users with no web experience (only some MS Office) to work with Joomla. And that is waht counts in my case. If you want to run a portal on your own choose drupal...

'Joomla is the best CMS today', someone says a few comments earlier. If that is the case, I think it's about time someone created a real decent CMS. Because if Joomla is the best, that means that there is not a single CMS available that is even 20% 'good'.

I have to confess that Joomla! is like buying a car from a catalog. It will tell you how many power the engine has, a lot of details about it's features and additional gadgets, but from the catalog you will never learn how it feels to drive it. On paper, Joomla is perhaps the best CMS available. Untill you try to use it. I tried. Honestly, i believed that i would be able to do anything with Joomla! But in fact i never managed to make a website with the layout i wanted and the content structure i needed. And so i had to give up on Joomla! and look elsewhere. I beleive Joomla can be a good CMS. Anyone can be used and become profecient with any tool. But the time you will wate just to really dominate this tool is not worth it.

Joomla has lost its way. 1.5 is now at rc4 and still no useful documentation. Migrating over from 1.0.13 is a major issue which AFAIK depends on a third party module to convert the data base. There are issues that should have been shaken out during the beta phase. There are STILL basic css and layout issues in the admin panel which makes me worry about what is broken under the bonnet. 1.5 should have been versioned as 2.0. it is significantly different from 1.0.13 and the number of third party modules/plugins are limited, the legacy element is flaky to say the least. If you really like Joomla, I would recommend Elxis as a better option both for stability and support, or better still, go for Drupal. Sorry Joomla team, but I feel the project is out of control and lacks direction.

Well, looking for 'ideal' CMS can be a nightmare. I haven't found the ideal one yet, but Joomla! is far closest to it!. Thousands of extensions, incuding those You've been searching for (JACL+ for extended users, and, for example, Artio SEF component for SEF url's), will sure do the trick !!! Give them a chance, and You won't be disappointed ! It's a promiss. And one more thing, Joomla has the best support community ever. There You'll get a relevant answer, within minutes. There's no professional support providing such response time.

I am still looking for the ideal CMS. Joomla isn't it. True it has a friendly user and admin interface, plus lots of themes. However, user access control and groups are non existent. Joomla is no use at all for group sites, i.e. where you have admin, authors, users, public. So one set of pages for public, some more for the users, and more again for authors (who can also edit/publish). A typical arrangement for a club site where you would want member only content but not have all members able to write pages. Where admin and author are the same it is fine. It has only 3 hard coded user types, public, registered and special. You can't add any more.

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I really wanted to like this CMS. I really did. But After 6 months with it I finally gave up and went back to Drupal. First of all it has a highly limited taxonomy. Everything either has to be not categorized at all OR in a section AND subsection. The only work around for this is to edit the category descriptions so you can have at least ONE page in a section but no subsection. This makes some prety long URL's and content can only be in ONE place unless you just copy it. They have 3 types of modules, which is highly confusing. When their module installer installs something it generally puts files in at least 2 places, making troubleshooting and manual module removal problematic. Joomla! 1.x does not have SEF URL's outside of contrib modules (some of which you have to pay for). Joomla! 1.5 (still in beta) does, but they include both your article description AND article ID# in them, making them a mess. You can't upgrade a 1.x site to 1.5 (you need to replace the files and run some sort of database converter) so if you're starting with it now you should not waste your time with 1.x. BUT WAIT, despite it's release candidate (RC3) status, tons of module developers aren't even working on updating their modules to 1.5 support which will delay the updates for users who need particular modules. There is a growing cadre of developers designing modules for 1.5 specifically, but a high percentage of them seem to be commercial (paid) modules. Tons of people are on the bandwagon for this CMS because it's easy to theme (with many free themes available online) and the backend is attractive to Windows users. But the more I look at this CMS the more I see you can't do with it yet because the right modules are not updated yet. If this is how it is with 1.5 I suspect it will be with 2.0 and every other major release. No thanks, I went back to Drupal which is everything this one isn't and couldn't be happier. I do love it's WYSWYG editor but that's not enough to keep me as Drupal also has a variety to choose from.

Joomla is not the best Open Source Portal CMS, however its in Professional opinion the best Content Management Solution for Highly advanced organizations and Small companies. Basically there is nothing you cant do with Joomla, everything is available however you need to do little research to get what you want. Joomla support team is faster in response then any other Paid support service; however some of their support team is not serious and not up to Joomla standards. I will vote for joomla today and everyday and will keep on recommending it to every corporate or online business whom looking for speed, efficiency, security and attractive website. If you still didnt use it then youre missing allot. Michel Mitri IT Manager

Joomla is a big CMS. Its need a long time to learn completely. Its not for beginner. As getting big i think its become slower. ineed more simple and flexible CMS.

Joomla is a simple, intuitive CMS. For the novice sitebuilder, it is the perfect place to start. Rent some hosted space with Fantistico installer, load Joomla, get a template or two and you're off running. With the components + modules, you'll be surprised by the wealth of options. The community is also very active. HOWEVER: There are issues with the lack of depth in the creation of the Section + Categories. If your site requires heavy content cross-referencing, you will bump into limitations.

Everybody seems to like Joomla. I tried and tried to figure it out. Although it seems like a great CMS, the admin panel overwhelms me. I guess it's definitely not for beginners or the faint or heart.

Actually you can make as many side menu's or top menu structures as you like and have them display with whatever page or section or category you like. Each menu structure you create can be unique. I am currently developing a site for a customer that does exactly this each of the top menu's has a different side menu structure. Hope this helps Joomla #1 CMS Steve

It seems that with mosMainBody as the 'place where content changes' you cannot change the side menus with the new content that is displayed. Is that true? That is for each of my secondary pages, I would like different side menus for each, is that possible with Joomla?