I started using Joomla 3 years ago.<\/p>\n
First year,<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n I decided using Joomla, the main reasons were: the community behind it, the capacity to have modules on top of a core engine that worked in a very stable way.<\/p>\n It took me a while to understand how it worked, how to manage it and how to live with the evolution of the different versions that they were coming.<\/p>\n Second year,<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n I had to upgrade from 1.5 to 2.5, as so many people of the community, I decided to build the new web page from scratch and take the opportunity to enhance things. Good things: better look&feel, real multi-language, less touch on the code, and the community grew-up.<\/p>\n This was easy, the challenge during this year was to try to implement VirtueMart on top of the Web. 4 months trying to do it, but we found that some of the functionality still does not cover the requirements we want for our on-line store. So we decided to use Prestashop.<\/p>\n Positive thing: I learned a lot about how Joomla works, and I started to investigate about the next generation of templates.<\/p>\n