Joomla is like chess. It’s easy to learn the basics. Doing it properly and well is another story.
After a recent email rant to a friend about how difficult it is, as a web developer to make money, in these stringent times, I was told that it was because I use Joomla CMS. This is very easy for anyone to learn how to use!
My friend knows ordinary non-technical people who do this, themselves. I was sent a URL of a mutual acquaintance’s new Joomla web-site as an example of what just about anyone can do.
What totally amazed me was my underestimation of how bad it can be, when an amateur tries to do the work of a professional. I was expecting a decent, but not brilliant site. It turned out to look and feel much worse than that.
In fact, it is an unlocked, undesigned, home-made primitive
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