My reply was originally in response to apad’s comment.  Your site, http://aventhusiast.com/, shows compressed pages which is really helpful. See here: http://www.gidnetwork.com/tools/gzip-test.php.

one of the other tools I use is the yslow plugin for the firefox addon called firebug. It will show areas that can be improved like page caching, compressed files, etc.

Need your opinion on this, maybe you can detect the problem that make it slow w w w w.

Go sit on the beach and drink something with lots of rum in it for all of us here in colder climes.

Merry Christmas

There is a new version of Askimet, maybe that will deal with this spam pingbacks in a better way..

After looking at all the various CMS software, I do think that Joomla offers the most, especially when you take the Joomla community into consideration. There are a lot of people making templates and writing plugins, and a lot of places to go for help if you need it. That’s one of Wordpress’ strengths, and Joomla shares it.

Ultimately I wrote this article because it would have been useful to me a couple weeks ago when I was getting ready to do this. I hope that these two articles will be of some use to someone using Wordpress now who has been thinking about trying a CMS.

Best of luck :) Waiting for a second part of your adventure.

I think that the main reason for many of us NOT using Joomla but sticking to Wordpress is the fact that Wordpress is pretty straight forward, and easy to understand. I still wonder in Joomla how to make a logical setup for articles, sections, categories, components, modules and plugins. But it is starting to make sense. The learning curve for Joomla is just more steep, but in the end it offers great functionality, and finally Joomla (as of 1.5) also uses table-less design.

I am currently waiting for the final release of Joomla 1.5, but I’ve already started work on a new theme, and the gap analysis.

So far, the only drawback is that there is no integrated commenting system, so if you’ld like to have a blog-style section, you will need a plugin. In my opinion, yvcomment (http://yurivolkov.com/Joomla/yvComment/index_en.html) is sofar your best option.

Any other thoughts on this? Any other gaps?

I hope these will help you overcoming some of the tasks your facing.

Only thing missing in Joomla is a good free trackback functionality, the rest… there are fine components to handle some of your WordPress options into Joomla

It was hosted on godaddy

it would be bad if people come to your blog and always getting a 404 page. even you can redirect it with 301.

i wish you luck.

The wysiwig editor does take a long time to load on Joomla, but I can forgive the third party one I use because it’s superior to any other content editor I’ve had my hands on. So far I’m pretty darn happy with Joomla.

I have one gripe with joomla: it’s so sllllooooow. The front and and especially the backend takes forever to load.