I’m not much of a website development guy, but I get into building websites. I discovered Joomla a long, long time ago. I had just started thinking about creating a website for my music, and I was looking at solutions. Once I wrapped my head around Joomla, I really, really loved it. It is very powerful – you can display content in just about any way imaginable, and there are some very good companies making templates for it, so it can look really good, too.

I ran this site on Joomla for a while, and then I discovered Wordpress.  Wordpress is blogging software, but it can act as a content management system if you are creative with it. While Joomla is very powerful, it can be a bit difficult to use. Wordpress is very elegant in its simplicity, and it is a joy to use – a lot easier for a person to just jump right in and start building a site. So, I jumped platforms, and I’ve been running Wordpress for quite a while, now.

I’m getting to the point, though, where the versatility of Joomla is something I keep looking for, and Wordpress just can’t do what I want it to, while Joomla can. At least, not with my knowledge of tweaking Wordpress “under the hood”. Both systems are built on PHP, so if you are good with code, you can do pretty much anything with either of them. I’m not a code guy.

If I were to compare the two, here is my brief and uneducated synopsis:

Wordpress is very elegant and a joy to use. With the right template, it can easily act as a content management system and display your content in very creative ways, but you seem to be locked into the confines of your template if you aren’t good writing PHP and CSS code. If you’re running a blog or a simple site, using Wordpress is almost a no-brainer.

Joomla, on the other hand, is very powerful and flexible, allowing you to display your content in almost unlimited ways. If you are looking to build a bit more complex site and showcase different content in different ways inside of your site, Joomla is definitely worth a look.

I’m building a mirror of this site in Joomla right now – I think I might just make the switch. Again. You can view the Joomla site while it’s in development here.

So you might have noticed that my website looks a LOT different.  I just updated the design.  The template I’m using is a bit more complicated than templates I’ve used before, but it has more functionality.  Anyway, I’m still working out the kinks a bit, but things should be working smoothly soon.

I haven’t posted to my blog in a long time.  Usually I try to write about something I find important or moving, but tonight I had a really strong urge to make breakfast for dinner.

Actually, my inspiration for this came a few days ago at Target, when I was thinking about how much I like the the Bacon, Egg and Cheese Lean Pockets breakfast sandwiches, and I thought, “Well I can make these on my own and they will be WAY better”.

It’s true – this was WAY better.

Start with this:

Cook in here:

And then…

Oh yeah.  This was so much better than the Lean Pocket thing.  And actually way better for me.

So that is the story of my breakfast burrito.  And by the way, breakfast for dinner is awesome.