Hi Mike
Thanks for the input.
Actually I already have a simple website and two blogs. One of the blogs is due to expire in a few months. The other is provided free with my host. I have my site and blog hosted by GoDaddy. The website cost $20.00 a year and they throw in the blog and webmail. Cant beat the price. My website is html based from which I can work with using Kompozer and my blog I can work with using windows live writer. Of course I can also use the hosting control panel.
I guess I would like to use my website as a place to express my views. A very tiny whisper amongst the howling winds of the internet. Its very basic and I thought about upgrading it to a dynamic site. I plan on keeping it for few more years or longer. Who knows A light bulb may go off in my head and I'll try to make some cash with it. Its going to have to be a bright light though.
From what I have read a dynamic site is much more versatile and I can have more bells and whistles.
So to answer your question I want to play around with it first. I have Xampp installed and running I also have Joomla and wordpress up and running on my local host. From what I can see wordpress is indeed designed for blogging it also has a large selection of templates to choose from. Joomla seems to be more suitable for website designing. Problem is Joomla is a bit difficult for this newbie. Ive been playing around with the two as time permits. At this point I am trying to figure out how take a website template and incorporate into joomla and then modify that to my personal taste. It seems I may have to do this one table at a time. Also this is the point where I am lost.....lol
I have been looking for a plain english how_to_guide for working with the joomla or perhaps easier software that is free.
The end game is to create a dynamic site and then figure out how to transfer the end product to my website. GoDaddy has MySQL and allows up to 10 databases which should be more than enough for my needs.
Cheers
Wdhpr