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Some people think that Joomla
and WordPress
are rivals, made for the same purpose. I don't 
believe that to be true, any more than a Subaru competes with a Suburban. I think that being abl e to use both is a real strength for anyone wanting access to the power of Content Management software.  
Joomla is more sophisticated than WordPress, and at this point can do more things. Joomla has a more active, some might say, fanatic, user base. However, WordPress is able to do many things more easily than Joomla. For instance, inserting a sound file is more difficult in Joomla, and probably involves finding a Plug-in to store and play the sound file, such as .mp3. It is a much simpler process in WordPress. One the other hand, themes in WordPress are almost impossible to format. If you have a theme with a column on the left, you probably are not going to be able to move the column to the right.
BREAKING NEWS: RocketTheme
is, in my opinion, the best theme developer for Joomla. In 2008, RocketTheme
talke d about developing their themes for WordPress. In August of 2009, I inquired whether they would be coming out with WordPress themes, and got a carefully worded reply, suggesting that they would do so in the near future. On October 7, 2009, RocketTheme announced that they are now making WordPress themes . Click here for information on their themes for WordPress. They immediately released six themes, based on recent Joomla themes. I like Replicant 2, with a number of different color styles built in. Since then, they have added more, some of which will work better for a typical professional practice website than others.
December 18, 2009 -- WordPress 2.9.
The new release of WordPress, version 2.9, includes some really nice features, including easier embedding of links for video or other content, and editing and placing images in pages. This is really nice, and WordPress promises that it is a preview of what will be coming, presumably in release 3.0. Don't take my word for it -- here is the official WordPress video. NOTE: if I had been using WordPress 2.9, it would have been faster and easier than with Joomla!
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Contact Details
Contact: H. Edwin Detlie
303 East Second Street
Ottumwa, IA 52501-3001
Tel: 641.682.8119
Fax: 641.682.8110
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