The Blog Hole!
I've been working on and off on getting a stable server up and running. My poor wife has had to re-do her site several times now because of hardware failure or something I did to the applications that brought the server down.
The last server had a pretty major hard drive failure (I use very old hardware; most of it spits out errors in one form or another; especially the hard drives).
So until the next hardware crash I want to play with the three most popular applications for CMS I have used. Joomla, Drupal & Wordpress. This site is running Joomla and I really like it, but getting the backend figured out well enough to produce the front end content I want has proven to be difficult.
We've used Wordpress by far the most. Not because I like it best; but because themes, editing and creating content is just dead simple. Joomla for a long time seemed too strict on how it looked and the layout stype and Drupal was the one I really wanted to know best but didn't have time to figure it out (enter loads of YouTube tutorials here).
With the latest update of Joomla they've really improved the backend portion by leaps and bounds. I would LOVE to learn how to theme it myself, what the backend needs to create content like I want etc etc..
If you are interested in seeing the Drupal and Wordpress versions of our sites just replace the www portion with drupal or wordpress respectfully.
Beginners
If this is your first Joomla! site or your first web site, you have come to the right place. Joomla will help you get your website up and running quickly and easily.
Start off using your site by logging in using the administrator account you created when you installed Joomla.
Upgraders
If you are an experienced Joomla! user, this Joomla site will seem very familiar but also very different. The biggest change is the new administrator interface and the adoption of responsive design. Hundreds of other improvements have been made.
Professionals
Joomla! 3 continues development of the Joomla Platform and CMS as a powerful and flexible way to bring your vision of the web to reality. With the new administrator interface and adoption of Twitter Bootstrap, the ability to control its look and the management of extensions is now complete.