After several failed attempts to keep my Joomla installation running I have given up and am now going to back to the tried and true WordPress. This means, of course, that I have lost all my stories again, but because WordPress is so stable and easy to use I should be able to add articles much quicker.
Joomla was an experiment in the Web 2.0 future. Content management software is the wave of the future, but Joomla is a bit harder to use than I innitially expected. All-in-all I think the application has lots of great features, but my issue was time. I did not have enough time to dive into the program and learn by trial and error. Because Joomla was an open source application, documentation was sparse. The idea of being able to turn on and off articles seemed appealing, but for a personal home space, I think the blog format will work just fine. Besides, I have four other blog sites I am writing for already, all using WordPress, so this way I can keep everything consistent.
Sorry for all the confusion and I’ll get the Yellowstone trip and my family’s recent visit to Portland online very soon. Thank you for being understanding.
