So why hasn’t everyone switched to a Joomla already? There are several answers to that question, with the first and most likely response being inertia. When people become accustomed to a way of doing things—no matter how antiquated—they are often loath to switch. Climbing the mountain of web development from HTML to advanced web application design takes years and a great deal of work. It can be almost painful to minimize those hard-won skills with an automated solution.

Another factor slowing the move to a CMS solution is the existing hundreds of web pages that will need to be converted from their raw HTML format. For a substantial web site, content migration can pose a daunting challenge. Needless to say, the initial time investment of porting to a CMS will pay for itself many times over in maintenance time savings in the future.