Day 2
Wow. I’ve actually enjoyed posting on this site - wordpress seems to be, according to look and feel, more conducive to blogging. I installed wordpress yesterday at this domain (idigitall.com) and wrote the first blog post. I’m still getting the hang of it, but from the first day, I already prefer it over Joomla!
Joomla definitely isn’t a blogging tool, there are hardly any blog modules, few blog themes even! Joomla’s a brilliant, and like wordpress, simple CMS (content management system) but it’s not a blog CMS. Joomla also has a higher learning curve, and unless you’ve used a CMS before, it takes a while to get around the idea that articles belong to categories, and categories belong to sections, and deleting sections can’t be done without deleting all the articles in all the categories that belong to that section. Which is really all just a schlep if you just want a blog. Joomla does however have a multitude of settings and tweaks that one can play with; It’s great for content management of small to medium size sites. And I’m sure you can forge a blog out from it but it would be like blowing up your house to kill rodents when all you need is the exterminator.
Installation-wise, both are equally quick and simple: joomla has a web form in which you fill out your database’s details, and wordpress has that stored in a file which must be manually edited. - that was practically the only step there was. Also, Joomla has a nice control panel that allows you to add a lot of features - but it’s not like you’d need those features if all you want is a blog. Wordpress is definitely simpler. I must also add that this wordpress blog displayed perfectly on my cellphone’s browser (LG KU 990 - Viewty) whereas Joomla didn’t.
Of course it’s still day 2 and I’m not saying that wordpress is the be-all and end-all of blogging. I still want to add more features to this blog - like a calendar feature and add new sections. I’m keeping my mind open on this - I’ve got a backup of my joomla installation if I want to go back. And there’ll definitely be changes on this site in the near future. I think this blog would have progressed much further had I installed Wordpress when i first registered the domain (about 5 months ago) instead of using Joomla. Anyhoo..
Today, I intend to work lots, we’re busy with eclipse rcp and osgi stuff (more about that later), as well as squeeze in some masters thesis writing stuff. I’ve got a chapter on Gabor filters (more later) due at the end of the week. I’ve also got some SVM (support vector machines) (more later) experiments - which have been running since Saturday morning - running on a very interesting parallel dual-processor (2 dual-core processors) machine, for which I’m expecting results, soon, hopefully. And I’ve got
pavers paving our back yard (more later). So I’m in for a very busy day.
Cheerz.
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