Joomla

I have to be honest and say I was a little nervous about this assignment after hearing the complaints from my classmates. I found that using Joomla was a frustrating experience for me. From the beginning of the assignment when I had to watch an almost two hour video before starting. The video was informative and covered what we would need to complete the assignment. However, I found myself having to go back to it when I forgot certain parts. I think it would be better if the video was broken into three or four parts to separated into section like creating Articles.

My actual website turned out fairly well. I don't know if it was just me , but Joomla seemed like a sensitive piece of software. It would slow down and seemed glitchy at times. Other than that Joomla is obviously very complex. I was able to the basics but I don't think it is as intuitive as sites such a wordpress or blogger. I understand that blogs and websites are different but Joomla seems overly difficult sometimes.  I do like that you the ability to customize so easily but was surprised by how users have to mainly look outside of Joomla for what I think is basic content.

Lastly, I think my previous experience in Dr. Yang's information Architecture class also effected the way I approached this assignment. I was mostly positive at first. However, after creating a website with HTML and making my own headers and editing HTML I was bothered by minor issues like  banner not being where I wanted. When I did look at the HTML on the Joomla pages I recognized most of it, but there were parts that I didn't completely understand. All in all it was good assignment. It definitely challenged me and  introduced to me to something that I was not aware of. I liked the final outcome.

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