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I have been spending a lot of time recently playing with Joomla v1.5.x.  It took me a little while to wrap my head around how to create a website using it as I come from a background of coding webpages by hand. I have discovered that using a Content Management System (CMS) like Joomla makes the whole process so much easier.  Once you wrap your head around the concept of sections, categories, modules, articles, etc. I discovered that it was quite easy to get a website up and running.  Of course the hard part is finding the right template or coding /  editing one to get the look and functionally you want.  Once this part is done you just need to organize your content into sections then in to categories (sub-section).  Then you just have to write your content into articles and publish them.  Of course you will need to create menus to make your content accessible as well.  Then add these menus to a module to get them appear. There are tons of other things you can do as well with add on extensions that can add everything from a full shopping cart to a simple hits counter and everything in between.  

So far Joomla v1.5 is a great CMS and I will most likely be using it for all my website in the future.  Unless they are a blog in which case I will continue to use WordPress as I am doing with this site.

I have also decided to try out the “WP Super Cache” plugin instead of my custom WP-Cache plugin. I downloaded the WP-Super-Cache v0.5.4 and made the GoDaddy wordpress fix from site where I found the GoDaddy Fix.  So far I have not been getting any 500 Server Errors.  Let me know if you have a problem with the site and I will switch it back to my Custom WP-Cache plugin.  You can get the WP-Super-Cache Plugin here.

Update: I am currently using v0.9.8 and it works great with no need to edit it.  Just install and activate and it works great.