I agree....mostly.
written by Cory, February 10, 2007

Hey Q, I mostly agree with you here. I've been working with Drupal recently, and I have to say, I really like it. However, it is not nearly as intuitive as Joomla, IMHO, and creating a theme for Drupal is a nightmare compared to creating a Joomla template. I'm glad to see that you haven't been My disagreement comes in the last paragraph of your post. In it (and please correct me if I'm wrong), I think you are characterizing Joomla as a hobbyist's toy. Granted, Joomla is a great toy for any web hobbyist, but it is so much more than that. It is a great tool for web professionals to develop some outstanding sites. Honestly, I can really see a "web 2.0 gajillionaire" arising out of the Joomla community, especially after 1.5 is released. Here's where I see the "gajillionaire" coming from. At the moment, all the high-end programming geeks in the community are spending their time and efforts developing commercial components to sell to the rest of us to use in our own sites. That's great, but just think if some of these ubergeeks would focus their efforts on developing a truly great application with the Joomla framework along the lines of a del.icio.us, digg, flickr, etc. I believe once that happens, you will start to see some "web 2.0" companies emerging from the community, and I believe that it will really start to take off after 1.5 is released. Anyway, thanks for sharing your thoughts on Drupal and Joomla. Don't feel bad about not being too active recently. It's been a few weeks since I've posted a how-to at HowToJoomla. Cory

million pixel website gimmick site was joomla
written by julz_hk, February 15, 2007

Do you remember the millionpixel for sale website, released by some kid it made a stack of cash and was a very simple joomsite. It made a bunch of cash too IIRC.

I just discovered J!
written by Curtis Earl, February 27, 2007

i recently started a sports site. my goal was to run my own blogging site. i've been posting solid articles which become the property of whatever site i submitted to. i got the idea to start my own site, invite my favorite writers and build a community. Together we could combine and sell our work while remaining true to our purpose. After staring into the software abyss, i settle on WordpressMu. My site is 2 weeks old and i'm knocking it into shape. but WordpressMu is clunky and i spend much of my time staring at code guessing which function does what. i dont mind the work, but i do mind that for all my work, nothing i create will be as dynamic or attractive as these J! sites i see out there. WPMU is 1.0 and everyone appears to be guessing. Is J! a reasonable alternative? can i create a central news site featuring feeds and polls and game, but also allow users to create personal blog spaces?