[TYPO3] Joomla! vs. Typo3

[virgil huston]

My two cents/Euros, etc. I have technical skills, but am not a techie, if
that makes any  sense. Being a sys admin is not the same as being a TYPO3
guru. I have been trying to learn TYPO3 for many months, off and on as time
permits. It is very dififficult for a newbie, that is for sure. I do mainly
political candidate sites and issue sites. Right now, I am using Joomla, it
does the job for the most part, but lacks all the features and flexibility
of TYPO3. Joomla is OK for the interim, but I am convinced that TYPO3 is
what I need. It has every feature that I could ever want. I just have to get
through the learning curve and, if I get a big contract (a couple are in the
works), I will hire a TYPO3 expert to help me. My point is that I know that
TYPO3 is the answer to my dreams, I just have to figure out how to use it. I
am determined to do so. So, do what I do. Use Joomla/Drupal, etc, but use
your spare time to learn TYPO3. That is what I am doing and I know I will be
rewarded when I finally get there with TYPO3. And, I will say, I have
received incredible help from the typo lists. Maybe they realize that I am
not looking for the easy solution and am serious about learning TYPO3. I
will also say that I may be an extreme case in that I am having a harder
time with it than most. But, TYPO3 is the promised land, I am convinced of
that, and that is where I want to be.

Virgil

On 7/20/06, Ryan Off <ryan at ryanoff.com> wrote:
>
> Dave, you shared my thoughts exactly. I used Mambo for just over a
> year (and still using it for my personal site until I switch it over
> to Typo3). I've even thought about going back to it recently as well.
> I like the simplicity of Mambo. Lot's of plug-and-play extensions,
> etc. It's quite easy to configure a nice site with a lot of added
> functionality (gallery, front end users, document management,
> newsletters, etc). The problem is that as you mentioned, it is hard
> to customise the extensions. As my PHP skills are much better than my
> Typoscript skills, I don't mind going in to the source code and
> changing around the PHP files. For me that was a lot less time
> consuming than struggling with Typoscript.
>