Well, Joomla! has certainly been interesting. I watched the video first, but without having Joomla! open, it was a bit hard to follow. Last night I set my self up with coffee a second monitor and followed along with the tutorial.

After I got into it, it was really easy. I even had some time to whip up a banner and logo while I was watching it. They are not the best, but I would imagine that a lot of libraries already has images on hand they would use for banners and logos.

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I like the way the site can be built without a lot of mess that is not needed. It takes a bit of learning to figure out the difference between modules and extensions, but with regular use I imagine most users would become very familiar with Joomla!

I am very impressed with Joomla! My first use of website making software was Dreamweaver. It was a glitch filled WYSIWYG graphic editor. Very odd, and functionality could not really be added. Joomla! allows for a clean design up front, and added functionality if the user wants to add it. Having different modules is a strength, allowing the user to change a part of the whole, or constantly adding news or updates without changing anything else. I can see the appeal to libraries for use of Joomla! for a content management system.