Joomla

A little off-topic but why do you intend on using Joomla? I recently built an eCommerce website with Joomla because that's what my client wanted it built in, but there are far better CMS out there such as Magento.

From what I gather, Joomla was once top of the list when it came to CMS but due to it's recent decline in popularity, I cannot see treehouse investing time in it any time soon.

It would make more sense to have a Drupal course at this point.

What are the main differences between these, I have only really seen the Joomla interface. Are there any good sites that can give me guide to using any of these suggestions. Would like to start using one correctly from the beginning.

I would say that is important to know about joomla too, recently while applying for a job, many of them asked me if i knew joomla... i would love to see a track or something like it about joomla.

Anthony Gomez Yes, IMHO it's important to know at least the basics of Joomla. I've been working with Joomla since the times of Mambo and the majority of the CMS involved projects I accompanied since then where build with Joomla ... but maybe that's just a German/EU thing and Joomla isn't that important in the US?

In the markets I watch, there are at least 5 Drupal jobs posted for every Joomla job.

Importance of CMS by downloads (March 2014 / pixxeldesign )

• Typo3 > 7.560.000 Downloads
• Joomla! > 50.000.000 Downloads
• Wordpress > 61.000.000 Downloads
• Drupal > 5.000.000 Downloads
• Contao > 800.000 Downloads

Most people are here because they want to learn skills that will get them a job. If more professional organizations are using Drupal, and hiring for Drupal, then the overall number of downloads is irrelevant.

I believe you guys but I still need Joomla to take on a task on editing websites. So many websites were done in Joomla and it would be more costly for many to shift to another CMS and rebuild their website. Right now, I need to learn Joomla to work on a job on editing existing joomla sites. So I hope teamtreehouse will do something about putting something here on joomla instead of dumping it. Anyone who can point me to a similar learning site that teaches joomla?

The reason Drupal is more lucrative for job opportunities is simply that Drupal is used by companies who have an entire department/team for web development and it is more suited to the enterprise market in my experience. Web development firms tend to run the gamut of Wordpress, Joomla and Drupal but do not pay as high as Drupal would on the enterprise IT scale, at least not with publicly advertised positions. That's just demographics of cities with organizations large enough to have enterprise-level sites having a higher cost of living and pay scale.

This is my experience having been a Joomla full stack developer for 8+ years but working with enterprise level companies.

Treehouse would be best served by starting with Drupal first, then Joomla, even though I'm heavily biased toward Joomla as a platform for most site purposes. Drupal is overkill unless you can maintain a web administrator who is tech savvy enough to keep it up. (Most businesses I work with cannot afford even a dedicated IT person, let alone a dedicated webmaster, and therefore must stick with the more user-friendly interfaces of Joomla or Wordpress.)

I Still Believe that most of us ( Developers ) need to know about every CMS or at least the most used ones.

1- Wordpress

2- Joomla

3- Drupal

i've seen job requirement that ask you if you have a decent knowledge about these 3.

(right now trying to tame Wordpress.)