Joshua I feel you need to slow down a little and decide what it is you want your site to look/feel like then go off and research each system BEFORE implementing. I understand exactly where you are and have spent more lost hours than I should have chasing on-line rainbows that never have that crock of gold.
As far as flash pages in LR I would say avoid as you almost certainly bar a certain amount of the browsing population from seeing your work properly. Better to use javascripts imo.
Wrapper implementations in Joomla are very simple, just make sure the template offers suitable widths to accommodate what you require.
The whole Section / Category thing in Joomla is about how you want to display your material. For simple sites you will find you create categories and sections with the same name. To display content in Joomla all "articles" require a Section and a Category to be entered before it will display.
You can add users into your Joomla system to help. Oli has had a look at my Joomla backend (ooer!) on one of my sites which helped him see how content was being used. Happy to help if i can.
Joomla would certainly meet those requirements. In particular, the writing about site updates part is a bit of a forte with Joomla, as it's a case of creating a new 'article', assigning it to your 'Site Updates' category that you'll have already created. Then it automatically appears in a predetermined 'module', that you've placed on your homepage - in the Header perhaps... or in a box on the left, or right in the middle! - Sounds a bit complicated, which it kind of is, but once set up, it'll all run smoothly, and everything will actually be so much easier in the long-run.
As for a gallery, I think Joomla comes with a few built in options which may cover you, but if not, that's where the wrapper comes in, where you build a separate gallery, like your current site, and then place it within a page on your Joomla site. Another option is to use something like Gallery2, which is a pretty versatile gallery program, again server and database based. If you don't want purchase options, it works really well in a wrapper. If you want to integrate with PayPal, you run into problems though
Contact pages are particularly good with Joomla.
And with the right template, it can definitely have a clean and simple look, and be very easy to navigate through
Phewph!
I'm hoping that's the answer! Although you would just move them, rather download, and upload
If you look again now www.olivercoats.co.uk
That's the another of the built in templates.
The third has lots of bees on it??? Not quite my thing
I like that template it looks cleaner, but the buttons aren't so swish
I've downloaded the joomla files now, do i just upload em all to the same folder?
yh perhaps, I think it needs to be made less wide and centrallised as well so it's less "sprawling" if that's possible. thats just my opinion though, what do i know
yeah, that's really neat, like it a lot
Hmmm... it ends up squidging the boxes on the right, into the middle. Nothings ever simple
