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| Title: Joomla vs Drupal vs WordPress |
| Date Added: August 18, 2011 11:01:28 AM |
| Author: Vishal Arora |
| Category: Arts and Literature : Graphic Design |
| Which is the best - Joomla, Drupal or WordPress? This is one of the questions that cross the mind of every webmaster and business owner while developing a website. The truth is all these content management systems are equally good in their own right. Drupal, Joomla and WordPress developers swear by their platform. Let’s take a look at the strength and the weaknesses of each of these platforms. Joomla • Strength – PHP is the soul of Joomla which is the most common scripting language on the planet and its installation takes only a few minutes. There are a wide range of extensions available which help you in developing highly customized websites. Joomla developers have a huge close knit community to offer you support in times of need. • Weakness – Joomla is good for small business website but the user interaction features isn’t as good compared to WordPress and not advisable for corporate blogs. It requires prior coding knowledge and has some issues with the security. Joomla development is expensive compared to others due to the cost of some of its basic plugins. Drupal • Strength – Drupal is ideal for large website thanks to its clean code. Drupal developers perform better from their counterparts when it comes to forums, e-commerce website, intranets, social networks, news aggregators and photo galleries among others. Drupal for more advanced coding requirements that scale better when developing a complex website. • Weakness – Drupal is built on PHP and MySQL and is meant for serious web developers in mind. It requires you to be tech savvy and is not meant for beginners. Drupal development doesn’t have ‘What You See Is What You Get’ feature which makes the visual design harder especially for amateurs. WordPress • Strength - It is the most popular CMS in the world. WordPress development offers a wide variety of plugins and is very flexible making it the preferred choice of many. Thousands of plugins allow you to have an absolutely unique website. It is easy-to-use and works well for all genres of websites. The huge community of WordPress developers acts as a constant support for your website. • Weakness – The open source version of WordPress that is Wordpress.com does not allow you to include advertisements of any kind. This acts as a deterrent for small websites which want to host their website in the WordPress domain. WordPress can be complicated to backup and restore unless you use a third-party application which helps you backup and restore WordPress database. Overall it is difficult to choose a perfect CMS among the three as they have their advantages and disadvantages. You can easily outsource all these to an offshore development center and get your customized website developed. WordPress however continues to be the market leader as it is the most user-friendly among them all and can easily be used with little coding knowledge for your custom development. |
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