Joomla 2.5.6

New to the Joomla CMS, a Wordpress Convert, so where is this community for Joomla you all are talking about, i mean the forum ?
Pretty excited about this CMS, getting mixed feed backs from you guys..want to check it out for my self..the main reason for me to look into joomla is because Wordpress does not offer a good e-commerce cart from what i have investigated . Well again Joomla is not the best cart either, apparently their are other better carting systems out their, but i want to maintain my blog as much as run a store, so here I am!

I think every who love Joomla never tried something else! This was a great CMS years ago but his architecture is outdated today. If you want a simple site try CMSMadeSimple for a full features multilingual site Drupal is one of the best choice. Don't waste your time with Joomla give something new a chance and you won't regret.

I've used Joomla for couple sites, but I always come back to Drupal

Joomla is great and is fairly easy to use and secure. The only trouble i have is the need for more levels of sub-categories. You can buy books for Joomla from Pact Publishing a must read. www.packtpub.com/Joomla

Joomla is a big toy..., not more! Ist colorful but its not easy to handle for beginners. There are many extensions for that cms but mostly they dont work. Also its not really SEO capable though its not a big problem for the community to build it in!!! There are always nerving security updates and many bugs in this system. I hate this system more and more!!!

I have designed websites using Dreamweaver for quite some time, but the hardest point is when you try to bring it to the server, got confused there. I know XHTML and CSS very well. Most of the time I hand code to trim my designs and make them look great.
Lately I found about CMS and I regretted that wasted my time designing my own pages, because I was able to generate a website within 5 seconds using Artisteer which generates beautiful WebPages for Drupal, Joomla, Word Press, ASP.NET and Code Charge Studio. What a nice piece of software, I Love it. However, it has its limitations too.
CMS: I first tried Joomla. I installed my Artisteer theme on it and it was piece of cake. Installation runs great may be 5 sec that is all. I loved my page on Joomla. But the toughest point in Joomla is it is messy, categories, sections are really confusing. I think the whole software is not organized for simplicity; rather users have to figure out things. I hate that. But Joomla is still great CMS. Down side about Joomla it doesn't have native comment module which is very important on blog sites. Most comment extensions have some flaws and I try to avoid that.
Drupal: I spent almost 3 hours, went through the entire configuration and I found it to be great CMS. But I figured out how to put my pictures and Google ads but could not do it. Even I was unable to edit my articles and it is not like Joomla. Joomla offers great editing area. I think I have to spend more time to learn Drupal because it is being used for great sites for it has better security updates. I have one big project I wanted to do for my own business, by then I have to master Drupal to benefit the great modules it has. Finally I quit Drupal for the time being and went for Word Press.
Word Press is piece of cake that your mom can do it without your help. My site was running within one hour. Installed themes, configured the whole site, twicked it the way I wanted it to be. It saved my time and it has great extensions that saved me time. Though, I have a security issue doubts with Word Press. I personally don't want to use it for a bigger projects like for more than 50,000 visitors a day websites. I would rather use Drupal or Joomla.
Right now I am using Word Press because it is very easy no need to know HTML, CSS, PHP, or MySql. However, my next project will be on Joomla or Drupal. Currently I am leaning the Joomla and it is still tough. I hope it will be for the moment.

In my opionion Joomla is definitely to complicated.

Especially when you need a non-standard page layout you easily get lost.

Also the handling of the content pages is definitely too confusing.

After trying some other cms's i always get back to joomla, when i need to create a good site. It's like someone else said here, you don't need to trick the script to do things, it's all there.

It's a Luxury car in the world of CMS, I saw commercial cms, charging big bucks for half of the options you see in joomla.
Go for it, with no fear, the template creation is well thought, all you need to tweak is 1 file and some css files, unlike other scripts with files scattered all over the server.
Reliability - by far the best
Very easy to move, no hidden surprises like trying to find the configuration file.
I give it a 10 out of 10

I have been using Joomla for approximately two years to develop websites for customers and I love it. Joomla has an active community, it is easy to use, it is secure, easy to maintain and extremely flexible.

I am also will be use Mambo on my existing site. Because i thinks it is very nice.Thanks for all.

Joomla is one of the best. I like it very much.

Thanks joomla.

after designing websites for over 8 years I have never heard of joomla until 2 months ago or maybe I never paid attention to the name.I have use it for the first time and its pretty simple to use I am more concern about securing my joomla website ..but its an interesting product and am hoping to understanding Joomla much more in the future..

great cms

This cms is the easiest to learn at least for me, I tried drupal but it wasted a lot of my precious time and I am happy that I finished my site in 3 days with joomla. DRUPAL GOES TO THE BIN!

Joomla looks extremely polished, but it does look more polished than it actually is. Imperfection of documentation will confuse many users at first. On the upside, once you get past the short learning curve, it's a breeze to use. Unlike other CMS's it doesn't feel like you have to trick Joomla into doing what you want. It's all there.