As a new entrepreneur, figuring out how I best wanted to cultivate the space I call home on the internet was a rabbit hole I was not expecting.
With experience in both cloud software and wordpress, and some awareness of what the industry likes to call “front-end app development”, I thought I knew a thing or two. And that the other thing or two could be filled in with the magic wand of AI.
There is literally a new way to build a website every day.
Reg Moore, RegMedia
Then I met Reg. We found each other in the way any good partnership unfolds - at a music festival in the woods.
We got talking web. HTMLs, phps, AI web builders, CMSes (with and without heads). If this is gobbledygook to you - no problem. It is to me too.
I knew little, but what I did know was:
- There’s probably more than one way to make this chicken sing
- I could do it cheaply and not well, or I could light a bale of money on fire and watch a creative agency go crazy
- That the balance between the two dichotomies above was probably just finding the right partner.
Reg introduced me to Joomla
CMS
What’s a Joomla you ask? It’s a CMS
Whats a CMS you ask? It’s a type of software that allows cave-men like me to create a website with text, images and videos without having any coding or technical expertise.
According to data, CMSes are pretty popular. As of writing they are the backbone of 64% of websites, of this Wordpress makes up 43.6%1.
As a relatively new guy in the website scene, CMSes seem like a pretty good way to get my feet wet, particularly as my aspirations don’t currently align me to the path of front-end development, and my experience with the AI coder assistants is at best inconsistent.