What do you recommend Joomla or Wordpress for a simple personal site?

[roney]

Hi,

What do you recommend for easy to use, do it yourself, no html, professional looking websites for my small business and community site?

Thanks

[SharkSpace_Alex]

Hi,

If you want to compare between joomla and wordpress. For a new user, I would recommend the free WordPress - you can always move to a custom domain, and your own host as expertise and need grows. WP has a massive user community, which means lots of templates, lots of plugins, lots of updates and lots of people who can help you if you get stuck.With Wordpress, you can toggle back and forth between your WYSIWYG and html editors for pages and individual posts. Your site will look great in about 5 minutes using Wordpress
Joomla is great if you want a more customised site, but it takes a fair bit of effort to get it setup right. I would only really suggest this for professional sites with specific content requirements. Joomla is the better choice if your site is almost anything but a blog. The tough learning curve is partly a function of the advanced features that Joomla provides. You’ll have to spend some more time with it, if you are willing to trade some extra learning time for a more advanced site, go with Joomla.
If your site is only a blog, use Wordpress. The more cool-looking static content you need, the more Joomla will help you.

Hope this info helps you.