Website development

[Spoiler]

Go for WordPress or Joomla - Joomla's more powerful but a bit more technical. Both provide similar sets of themes.

Agree - I inherited a Joomla site and find it harder to do stuff on it than WP. So much so that I paid someone else when it required a major version update.

[Cliphead]

Agree - I inherited a Joomla site and find it harder to do stuff on it than WP. So much so that I paid someone else when it required a major version update.

Did several sites using Joomla back in the day and it served a purpose. WP has largely taken over the role Joomla played and with so many themes and plugins it's quick and easy to get a good looking very functional site live in a very short time.

The scope is there to edit themes using CSS or go full PHP for plugins, can't see anything to beat it at the moment unless you want to go eCommerce although it can do that too.

[LondonManc]

Did several sites using Joomla back in the day and it served a purpose. WP has largely taken over the role Joomla played and with so many themes and plugins it's quick and easy to get a good looking very functional site live in a very short time.

The scope is there to edit themes using CSS or go full PHP for plugins, can't see anything to beat it at the moment unless you want to go eCommerce although it can do that too.

Funnily enough, I'm just about to embark on a private project to convert a couple of my old websites from Joomla to Wordpress; there are few things that I cannot do these days with Wordpress that I can do with Joomla.

[woohoo]

I've had a play with Wordpress. That's kind of what got me into wanting to learn a little more about HTML/CSS and the languages. Never gonna be a web developer, but I have to do something on these long cold nights

If you are just wanting to learn for fun then I don't see the point of WordPress. Get a template, learn about hosting, configuring web server software, IIS, Apache etc, even setup a free account with Azure cloud hosting or whatever, learn something new.

Look at the template and change it to add your text, move things around, experiment. Add the code so someone can contact you, so perhaps learn about sending email. Throw in a slider or a bit of fancy functionality to learn about Javascript.

[davidbieder]

Hi Worthy,

Is it a static website or a web-application? In the later case, did you consider the mean stack:

home - Mongo Express Angular Node

Furthermore, I suggest have a look a Twitter Bootstrap the most popular HTML, CSS, and JS framework for developing responsive, mobile first projects on the web. Allows to get around hand-written CSS and the websites look quite neat from the beginning.

getbootstrap.com

Cheers,
David