Joomla! CMS, Content Management System for the web and your websites = supposedly easy, easy to add components, like a store, a gallery, a blog, a newsletter, new themes, make your own theme.

Huh! Not easy at all! It’s very time-consuming, little or no user support from extensions or theme providers, and they want you to give them money for the support or the theme or the extensions.

I only started this because it was supposed to be open source. I’ve have had many visitors, but no feedback or comments or ratings from users, seems my components don’t work. Or signup or other requires too much effort from users.

Everything looks so pretty and organized, especially in the demos, but, try and get it to work for you. OyVay! Many of the extensions, such as components for online stores and newsletters, do not deliver the features they promise.

You have to do a lot of time-consuming searching of each components’ forums to find fixes or directions for problems, and many answers are not there or are lost in the forum maze.
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