An artist asked, on a forum, for advice about template creation and plugins that would be helpful for an artists portfolio site, built using the Joomla! CMS. He said that he doesn’t know HTML or coding, but would like to build it, for the most part, himself.
This is my brief reply to him:
You don’t need to know HTML thoroughly, to use Joomla. The only place, where some knowledge would be needed, is for the construction of articles or modules that contain text and images. Even there, there are tools to help you.
I recommend the ‘Joomla Content Editor’ (JCE), which can replace the primitive editor, that comes with Joomla (MCE).
N.B. In case you don’t know, the editor is the software that allows you to write pages in a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) window, whilst it constructs the HTML, behind the scenes, for you.
With a bit of study, you can make JCE, to a great extent, write all the HTML for you.
I would also recommend buying a license to use the advanced version, which has great tools, such as ‘Image Manager Extended’. This could prove very useful to you, as an artist. It allows image editor right on the server.
It also comes with an extra plug-in to easily add light-boxes (those pop ups which darken the background to highlight a new area on a page containing special content, such as has been utilised extensively, in the Joomla back-end). This is very useful for image galleries among other things.
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