Comments on: Do you worship Wordpress? http://www.deckchair.co.uk/blog/2007/11/23/do-you-worship-wordpress/ Inside the minds of the designers at Deckchair Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:36:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: David Airey http://www.deckchair.co.uk/blog/2007/11/23/do-you-worship-wordpress/#comment-698 David Airey Mon, 07 Jan 2008 11:52:54 +0000 http://www.deckchair.co.uk/blog/2007/11/23/do-you-worship-wordpress/#comment-698 Hi Toni, Looking forward to the redesign, and Ollie, thank you for the mention! Hi Toni,

Looking forward to the redesign, and Ollie, thank you for the mention!

]]> By: toni http://www.deckchair.co.uk/blog/2007/11/23/do-you-worship-wordpress/#comment-697 toni Mon, 07 Jan 2008 11:48:06 +0000 http://www.deckchair.co.uk/blog/2007/11/23/do-you-worship-wordpress/#comment-697 Hi David Thanks for stopping by, great to have you back with us again! I too trust that Paul knows his stuff. I didn't write this post though, Probably not made very clear...but Ollie my collegue is the author of this one. We are about to do a redsign of our blog as it looks pretty dull I know and perhaps one of the things we should do is make it more obvious which Deckchair person has written each post. So watch this space :) cheers Toni Hi David
Thanks for stopping by, great to have you back with us again!
I too trust that Paul knows his stuff. I didn’t write this post though, Probably not made very clear…but Ollie my collegue is the author of this one.
We are about to do a redsign of our blog as it looks pretty dull I know and perhaps one of the things we should do is make it more obvious which Deckchair person has written each post.
So watch this space :)
cheers

Toni

]]> By: David Airey http://www.deckchair.co.uk/blog/2007/11/23/do-you-worship-wordpress/#comment-590 David Airey Sun, 23 Dec 2007 10:22:12 +0000 http://www.deckchair.co.uk/blog/2007/11/23/do-you-worship-wordpress/#comment-590 Thanks for the mention, Toni, and I'm honoured you like my blog. As for Paul's recommendation, I'm not very clued up on Joomla at all, but I'm sure he knows what he's talking about. Ciao for now, and I hope you enjoy the festive break! Thanks for the mention, Toni, and I’m honoured you like my blog.

As for Paul’s recommendation, I’m not very clued up on Joomla at all, but I’m sure he knows what he’s talking about.

Ciao for now, and I hope you enjoy the festive break!

]]> By: Paul Enderson http://www.deckchair.co.uk/blog/2007/11/23/do-you-worship-wordpress/#comment-511 Paul Enderson Wed, 05 Dec 2007 14:12:53 +0000 http://www.deckchair.co.uk/blog/2007/11/23/do-you-worship-wordpress/#comment-511 It does have rather a steep learning curve I guess - it can be a bit daunting if you haven't used it before! I guess it's a question of "what works for you". It'd be great if there was a product that offered the best of both applications... ExpressionEngine would seem to do this, but I refuse to pay hundreds of dollars for a commercial product when I can do the same thing with either WP or Joomla! It does have rather a steep learning curve I guess - it can be a bit daunting if you haven’t used it before! I guess it’s a question of “what works for you”.

It’d be great if there was a product that offered the best of both applications… ExpressionEngine would seem to do this, but I refuse to pay hundreds of dollars for a commercial product when I can do the same thing with either WP or Joomla!

]]> By: ollie http://www.deckchair.co.uk/blog/2007/11/23/do-you-worship-wordpress/#comment-506 ollie Wed, 05 Dec 2007 13:56:48 +0000 http://www.deckchair.co.uk/blog/2007/11/23/do-you-worship-wordpress/#comment-506 Hi Paul Thank you for your comment. We have used Joomla and found it to be very full featured. Our issues with it are that it almost has too many features and the admin interface is cluttered so we spend a load of time stripping out things we don't need. I also find it a bit clunky (technical terminology there!). The beauty of WP is that its very simple and you can easily add or develop the plugins you need to expand it. Its also very solid. I think ultimately WP and Joomla have their own merits, but the more I use WP for CMS purposes, the more I like it. Hi Paul

Thank you for your comment. We have used Joomla and found it to be very full featured. Our issues with it are that it almost has too many features and the admin interface is cluttered so we spend a load of time stripping out things we don’t need. I also find it a bit clunky (technical terminology there!).

The beauty of WP is that its very simple and you can easily add or develop the plugins you need to expand it. Its also very solid.

I think ultimately WP and Joomla have their own merits, but the more I use WP for CMS purposes, the more I like it.

]]> By: Paul Enderson http://www.deckchair.co.uk/blog/2007/11/23/do-you-worship-wordpress/#comment-495 Paul Enderson Wed, 05 Dec 2007 10:26:08 +0000 http://www.deckchair.co.uk/blog/2007/11/23/do-you-worship-wordpress/#comment-495 Despite reading otherwise on a daily basis, I'm still not convinced that WP is up to being used as a proper CMS. It's an awesome blogging platform, but if you want truly flexible/expandable content management then you should check out <a href="http://joomla.com" rel="nofollow">Joomla</a>. Despite reading otherwise on a daily basis, I’m still not convinced that WP is up to being used as a proper CMS. It’s an awesome blogging platform, but if you want truly flexible/expandable content management then you should check out Joomla.

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