Derleek Posted June 18, 2008 Share Posted June 18, 2008 So me and my buddy are starting a web design company. I am the coder with some decent experience with C++ and now php/mysql he is a very knowledgeable computer guy who is working on more design stuff. He stumbled upon Joomla! several months ago when he was venturing out on his own. I am wondering the pro's and con's to using a system like joomla! to develop a rather wide range of websites (from modeling pages to lawyers and out from there). I'm going to be up front. Like many other coders, i am lazy... i don't really want to mess with other peoples crappy templates, so i'm debating weather we should use Joomla! as the base for all (or at least some or most) of our projects. meaning we would have to develop a templates on our own... i know basically nothing about Joomla! and he knows nothing about coding, so considering i can code all of the features i have seen, and likely most that i haven't, is it worth using this CMS? we are using... (kinda using anyways) joomla 1.5... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted June 18, 2008 Share Posted June 18, 2008 i don't really want to mess with other peoples crappy templates Exactly the reason why I won't use Joomla! (who puts punctuation in the name of their software anyways?) nor any other pre-made content management system for anything. I don't want to deal with other people's crap. You'll end up modifying a lot of things so I think you're better off just starting with one of the large frameworks and custom building it from the start. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derleek Posted June 18, 2008 Author Share Posted June 18, 2008 Ok, well what if we learned to make our own templating system? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derleek Posted June 19, 2008 Author Share Posted June 19, 2008 could you list some of the frameworks? are there any that you recommend? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serverman Posted June 19, 2008 Share Posted June 19, 2008 whats the point of a cms Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted June 19, 2008 Share Posted June 19, 2008 could you list some of the frameworks? are there any that you recommend? As always, I'd recommend Zend Framework (which our site is also built with). Other popular ones are symfony, CodeIgniter and CakePHP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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