New to Joomla. Learn 1.0.13 or 1.5?

[nosleephotel]

Hello,

I'm new to Joomla.  I've done a little reading on the Joomla and understand its basic functions and structure.  I was wondering which I should spend time on to learn.  1.0.13 or 1.5?  I'm looking to make sites for my web clients in the next month or so.  Is it better to learn 1.0.13 and then when the stable version of 1.5 comes out learn that?

Any input would be much appreciated.

Houston Graham

[uweD]

Hi,

I can only say go for 1.5. It is pretty reliable. I have not experienced anything so far stopping me being enthusiastic for Joomla 1.5. Why spending time on 'yesterdays' technology?


Cheers,
Uwe

[nosleephotel]

Thanks, Uwe.  Appreciate the input.  Anyone else agree or disagree?

[smallvoice]

I was wondering which I should spend time on to learn.  1.0.13 or 1.5? 
Any input would be much appreciated.

Hi Houston,
I'd agree with Uwe here. I've been working (learning) with 1.5 for the past month or so. It's much more standards compliant, which is important to me. Allowing building of sites wthout tables and separating structure and content. I understand it can be set up to run in legacy mode if you need to use 1.0 templates or extensions. After looking at 1.0 and 1.5, I just decided since I was going to spend a lot of time learning a new technology, I'm going to invest that time in a more forward-looking product. I've been impressed by the energy and excitement about 1.5 I see out there on the web and 1.5 just seemed to be a lot more flexible.
Depending on your needs, there might be a shortage of extensions at the moment; I guess I'm trusting that will improve fairly quickly.
HTH
Bill

[Urme]

Personally I decided to go for 1.0.13 for now, I will use 1.5 when it's out of RC, even though it might be stable in it's current release and alot better than 1.0.13. There are more components, modules etc for 1.0.13 as well atm, and just take a thing like the JCE editor, doesn't work with 1.5 afaik yet.

[nosleephotel]

Hi Houston,
I'd agree with Uwe here. I've been working (learning) with 1.5 for the past month or so. It's much more standards compliant, which is important to me. Allowing building of sites wthout tables and separating structure and content. I understand it can be set up to run in legacy mode if you need to use 1.0 templates or extensions. After looking at 1.0 and 1.5, I just decided since I was going to spend a lot of time learning a new technology, I'm going to invest that time in a more forward-looking product. I've been impressed by the energy and excitement about 1.5 I see out there on the web and 1.5 just seemed to be a lot more flexible.
Depending on your needs, there might be a shortage of extensions at the moment; I guess I'm trusting that will improve fairly quickly.
HTH
Bill

Bill,

Thanks for the input, Bill.  What documentation (manuals, tutorials, etc.) have you been reading for 1.5, if you don't mind me asking?

[smallvoice]

Thanks for the input, Bill.  What documentation (manuals, tutorials, etc.) have you been reading for 1.5, if you don't mind me asking?

Houston,
Besides the info at these forums, I picked up the book, "Beginning Joomla! From Novice to Professional," by Dan Rahmal.  I have no background in CMS development, so I've found it pretty helpful. There's also a lot of helpful stuff over at Barrie North's site, http://www.compassdesigns.net/tutorials/joomla-tutorials/. Barrie also has a book scheduled to release later this month that I've been waiting to see -- Joomla 1.5, a User's Guide. Other than that, I've been stumbling through some templates, looking at the code (which is pretty close to Chinese-looking to me!) and trying things out on a site I set up on my local server. It is pretty challenging, but that would be the case whether I was doing 1.0 or 1.5, so I decided to go with the latter.
Cheers,
Bill