I've never really played around any kind of cms. Don't plan too either. Joomla is huge and quite widely used, but it's not for me.
I definitely don't envy you. Though I'm caught in an endless logic puzzle atm, trying to expand on some code I've written.
Actually it's worse than that, kind of embarrassing too. I'm trying to understand why what I wrote works. Sounds silly, but I can't build on it until I get my head around what I have done.
Anyway coffee sounds good, I need to look away from the screen for 5 min or so and enjoy my cuppa, then start fresh.
I personally hate Joomla because it is trying to oversimplify stuff that should just be done in code. It's basically html and php torn to pieces and made into buttons and switches and it ANNOYING. I'd much rather be building wordpress templates/themes right now
Oh well, it's not much work so it's alright.
And good luck to you! You will often find this comment in my code or stylesheets.
http://puu.sh/guuTn/ddfa955249.png
// Replaces with spaces the braces in cases where braces in places cause stasis
$str = str_replace(array("\{","\}"
," ",$str);
Also I am currently wasting valuable time trying to navigate this damned CMS to find out how they imported a certain image... I thought these things were supposed to make my life easier.