http://www.e-x-e.dk/2009/12/09/why-joomla-sucks/ Programming, Internet security and ballroom dance Sun, 04 Jul 2010 12:43:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc http://www.e-x-e.dk/2009/12/09/why-joomla-sucks/comment-page-1/#comment-125 Linford Fri, 28 May 2010 02:43:45 +0000 http://www.e-x-e.dk/2009/12/09/why-joomla-sucks/#comment-125 Joomla sucks. Joomla is smoke and mirrors. It promises a lot, delivers nothing. Joomla is a time-sink–it takes up whatever time you have and you’re still left with nothing. I spent three months trying to get Joomla to perform, knocking myself out, results: 0. Joomla is unstable, vastly buggy, comes with no support, generates crappy code, is largely undiagnosable. When I saw Joomla generate 25 nested divs, I knew Joomla is a horrible endeavor. If you think you have it hard now, it only gets worse. I returned to Dreamweaver. I’m a web designer and have no interest becoming my own programming consultant. If you want to create or maintain a website, do it the old-fashioned and time-tested way using the likes of Dreamweaver. There are no shortcuts. Joomla’s reason for being is that “it’s a shortcut”–but really, Joomla is a longcut. An analogy is you want to travel from San Francisco to New York–Dreamweaver gets you from SF to NY by way of Chicago competently–Joomla gets you from SF to NY by way of China–actually Joomla never reaches NY–it strands you in China–you’re left standing scratching your head asking how the hell did I get to here to China? Joomla is the worst software I’ve ever encountered. Learn the likes of Dreamweaver! Joomla sucks. Joomla is smoke and mirrors. It promises a lot, delivers nothing. Joomla is a time-sink–it takes up whatever time you have and you’re still left with nothing. I spent three months trying to get Joomla to perform, knocking myself out, results: 0. Joomla is unstable, vastly buggy, comes with no support, generates crappy code, is largely undiagnosable. When I saw Joomla generate 25 nested divs, I knew Joomla is a horrible endeavor. If you think you have it hard now, it only gets worse. I returned to Dreamweaver. I’m a web designer and have no interest becoming my own programming consultant. If you want to create or maintain a website, do it the old-fashioned and time-tested way using the likes of Dreamweaver. There are no shortcuts. Joomla’s reason for being is that “it’s a shortcut”–but really, Joomla is a longcut. An analogy is you want to travel from San Francisco to New York–Dreamweaver gets you from SF to NY by way of Chicago competently–Joomla gets you from SF to NY by way of China–actually Joomla never reaches NY–it strands you in China–you’re left standing scratching your head asking how the hell did I get to here to China? Joomla is the worst software I’ve ever encountered. Learn the likes of Dreamweaver!

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