After reading all about Content Management Systems such as Joomla and Wordpress, I was eager to attempt creating a website. I've begun with Joomla, but I'm going very slow and the process is a bit painful. The thing that bugs me is that Joomla is supposed to be super user friendly and the whole point is that "anyone" can create a website. This is misleading. While I realize that Joomla is probably about 100x more user friendly than it could be, that doesn't mean it's easy for anybody to just sign up and build a site. I think this kind of stuff takes someone who has a lot of patience and who's willing to go through a lot of trial and error. I'm not one of those people.
When it comes to technology, there is such a variety of user knowledge levels. I've been using computers for as long as I can remember. (When I was a baby my family bought a big ol clunky apple.) Older people at work sometimes act like I am some kind of computer wiz. I know that I'm not, but they still think so when they compare their skills to mine. You'd think with my background and Joomla's reputation I'd be going a lot faster...but that's just not the case.
When I first started learning Joomla, I didn't have any database experience, and so none of the terminology meant anything to me. Making a webpage with Joomla means you have to completely redefine the way you think websites work. Even now, sometimes I tell my boss something and he has to get me to restate it another way, because the terminology I'm using has no meaning to him.
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