Is a .net domain good to be develop?

[loredan]

Draggar, Joomla seems to be easier than Wp

The hardest part of the story is to get one site done while you learn all the tricks.

Just upload Joomla on a crappy domain and play with it for a while...you'll see how easy it is

 

[Sonny Banks]

Draggar, Joomla seems to be easier than Wp

The hardest part of the story is to get one site done while you learn all the tricks.

Just upload Joomla on a crappy domain and play with it for a while...you'll see how easy it is

I've used Joomla too but WP is more easier!

 

[loredan]

I've used Joomla too but WP is more easier!

I won't debate which one it's easier to use...both of the platforms are suitable for pretty much anyone.

As I said before, I prefer WP over Joomla for some SEO and indexation reasons...

 

[HomerJ]

I've used Joomla too but WP is more easier!

I have to agree. I found joomla to be very non-intuitive. spent a lot of time scratching my head learning. whereas w/ WP I found it fairly intuitive and quite an easier learning curve

 

[draggar]

Draggar, Joomla seems to be easier than Wp

The hardest part of the story is to get one site done while you learn all the tricks.

Just upload Joomla on a crappy domain and play with it for a while...you'll see how easy it is

I've decided to take you up on your offer. Too bad it took 10 minutes to unzip the package and it will take a lot longer to upload it.

 

[loredan]

I've decided to take you up on your offer. Too bad it took 10 minutes to unzip the package and it will take a lot longer to upload it.

Sorry to hear that...my host have Fantastico , so it's a few clicks installation

 

[Sonny Banks]

Sorry to hear that...my host have Fantastico , so it's a few clicks installation

HostGator the best lol

 

[Gerry]

Sorry to hear that...my host have Fantastico , so it's a few clicks installation

I am a big fan of fantastico now. All the stuff that is already pre-loaded?

Amazing.

Definitely worth considering exploring other CMS and open source programming.

I have heard that Joomla has a much steeper learning curve over WordPress and Drupal. But very happy with my Joomla experience now (and the head scratching at first was so true.)

I hear Drupal has some great offerings as well.

The key to getting sights up is becoming familiar enough with any one format and getting organized ahead of time. This cuts down on a tremendous amount of frustration and cussing.

I too used hostgator.

How would you recommend Joomla to someone who has the most basic understanding of PHP / CSS but is OK w/ HTML?

You have just described me perfectly. If you have the basic PHP/CSS, you are already ahead of me. Honestly, I was totally green and raw.

Perhaps I should have started out with Wordpress. But I think now after being a Joomla only person, WP and Drupal I understand would be much easier now.

HTML? Zilch comfort level but can figure a few things out.

Plan on taking some online course in HTML, XHTML and then Dreamweaver.

Draggar, Joomla seems to be easier than Wp

The hardest part of the story is to get one site done while you learn all the tricks.

Just upload Joomla on a crappy domain and play with it for a while...you'll see how easy it is

In all seriousness, starting out doing a .mobi with joomla is a snap and expanding beyond that is simple.

For that matter is does not need to be a .mobi.

I did a simple, very simple, tutorial for this located at iJoom.net.

Even the site it is built on is Joomla.

This tutorial is so basic in dealing with install templates, modules, mambots and what they do.

I tried to make it in a very easy to follow format and but it in a chronilogic sense to make it easy.

With more than 3500 free extensions and thousands of free templates, it has to be one of the most versatile formats out there.

Feel free to check it out.

You can even print it out without images for a nice little follow along.

 

[HomerJ]

case in point. i decided to return to a site i started in joomla to try to get it finished, prompted by this thread. within 10 minutes i've managed to make the main menu disappear and I'm completely clueless as to how i did it or how to get it back. its nothing obvious to say the least. :upset:

 

[Gerry]

case in point. i decided to return to a site i started in joomla to try to get it finished, prompted by this thread. within 10 minutes i've managed to make the main menu disappear and I'm completely clueless as to how i did it or how to get it back. its nothing obvious to say the least. :upset:

pm me the log in and I'll what, if anything I can do.

You can change the login when finished or whatever.

 

[HomerJ]

thanks doc, just pm'd


EDIT: had Doc stumped too ... a cms should not be like this. no way. say what you will. a pox on joomla

 

[radioz]

If there is an extremely well developed, very dominant name, I would imagine that you would have trouble going up against it regardless of the extension. In my searches I have seen cases where there was a very well developed .BIZ or .US site such as for a city or other niche. Usually, of course, the dominant extension is the .COM but not always. Sometimes a bunch of domainers own everything and some renegade develops what we consider a 'no-no' extension rather than buy the domain that he's 'supposed' to buy! In our metro area, the .COM name hawks junk jewelry from out of state. Only the .ORG, the municipal site, has responsive content. Our other main site is the horribly named 'PersueCharlottesville.COM' but through promotion, it is a serious site. These are our two main portals.

.NET is the best alternative in the USA, especially as people are very familiar with it. I certainly run across may seemingly successful and responsive .NET names especially where the .COM is owned by a 'never seller' or someone who wants a lot for it and has nothing responsive on it. As sort of an example in reverse, I recently bought an excellent niche, true keyword .COM domain name that has never been used for anything of value. Many, many other extensions are developed with responsive content and do have significant traffic. I have just decent .US and .BIZ names that do much better than this name does as a parked domain.

 

[draggar]

You have just described me perfectly. If you have the basic PHP/CSS, you are already ahead of me. Honestly, I was totally green and raw.

Perhaps I should have started out with Wordpress. But I think now after being a Joomla only person, WP and Drupal I understand would be much easier now.

HTML? Zilch comfort level but can figure a few things out.

Plan on taking some online course in HTML, XHTML and then Dreamweaver.

In all seriousness, starting out doing a .mobi with joomla is a snap and expanding beyond that is simple.

I threw up two Joomla sites last night, one with the "beginner content" (it fills up the site with Joomla related articles so you can see what goes where) and one with nothing. It is like Wordpress but a lot more (I'm starting to sound like Spinal Tap, aren't I? "Mine goes to eleven!").. You have more control over categories, subcategories but, as stated, it has a steeper learning curve plus not as many (free) templates available.

If you want some good books, the "Visual Quickstart Guide" series (by PeachPit press) are great. They're basic and make great tutorials and reference guides. I'd say start out with the one on "HTML, XHTML, & CSS" (by Castro) then either go to the "Php and MySQL" by Ullman (great author, BTW) or "CSS, DHTML, & Ajax" by Cranford & Teague (that all depends on the direction you want to go). The books are also inexpensive, I think only one or two are over $25 (US) and most are available internationally.

 

[staffjam]

You may find this post of interest.

http://www.namecake.com/is-the-com-really-that-important-how-about-a-nice-org/

 

[Gerry]

EDIT: had Doc stumped too ... a cms should not be like this. no way. say what you will. a pox on joomla

Si, I was stumped. But I am far from a Joomla expert. To me it did indeed look like everything was set properly. But obviously I am wrong.

There are many Joomla nuts on this forum. You may want to post it there. I would be curious to know also. It was this forum that turned me on to Joomla a couple of years ago.

Joomla is tricky. It does have a steeper learning curve. But I figure once I know all the ins and out of Joomla then WP and Drupal and anything else that comes along will be a snap.