I’ve used Joomla! a few times in the past to deliver community based sites that need a CMS but can’t justify having huge amounts of time spent on developing the site. It’s taken a few goes, getting more comfortable every time (I’m too lazy to RTFM) but I might be starting to get it.

As with many things on the web, it’s not quite like anything else and there’s a critical mass of knowledge you have to accumulate before you really understand what’s going on and make good decisions.

I’ve been asked to help out with a site for a school - in theory Joomla! should be ideal.

My biggest challenge is deciding when to use static content and when to use the section/category com_content or whatever-it’s called. Ideal for blogging, news stories etc., but not so good for more brochureware type sites.

And then there’s the menu (navigation) - there seems to be a very tenuous link between the menu and the content - often you have to duplicate a content object with a menu item, then sort it, and if you want to change the type of object a menu item links to (Link - category item for instance) or the specific object - you have to delete it and make a new one.

It’s also a shame that the core user functionality can’t restrict users to specific areas of the site - you can’t have one group edit one area and another group manage a different one.

Anyway, I’m sure there are mods and bots that can address this, but I’ve been too lazy to find them - I’m managing to get it doing what I want now.