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Joomla, WordPress or Drupal; your best CMS

Published on 20 October 15
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You write a content piece, upload it on the CMS and it promptly gives out a nice page bearing your article plus the menus, sidebars, and all the fixings - now that is CMS. CMS, the Content Management System is the one that makes it a convenient process to update and manage your website. A good CMS, as they say, empowers you to add and manage the content on your websites.

Are you starting a new website? Mind well, the Content Management System you choose, directly affects your costs, visitor experience and personal sanity year on year. Why don’t you take out some time to learn what a CMS actually is?
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Top three content management systems in order of popularity are Joomla, WordPress, and Drupal. However; there are hundreds of others available and used extensively. So the dilemma is to choose one of them.

The TOP Three; Joomla, WordPress and Drupal

The good thing about all three is that they have most of the features that you need your website to flourish and succeed.

  • Free and open source
  • You don’t need to be tech savvy to manage your day-to-day tasks
  • Helpful online community, that is really huge
  • Huge ecosystem of free additional programs for conveniently customizing your sites
  • Large selection of quality developers
  • Mature codebase, with timely security updates
  • Excellent themes

No doubts about the availability of several other CMS, but all those options might be missing one or the other critical feature, mentioned above. If in case you come across a feature in some other CMS you are doubtful about, believe me, you can go ahead to deploy Joomla, WordPress or Drupal and then leverage the same functionalities.

Choose Drupal Over Joomla

We all know that Joomla powers millions of websites today; however, I would suggest you to choose Drupal over Joomla. I personally feel Drupal is equipped with more powerful modules, it also allows you to customize almost anything, and is easier to maintain.

What have you to say about it? Please feel free to share your views and opinions in the comments below.

In a situation if you feel, or are made to feel by your IT teams - if any, that it might be too difficult for you and them to use Drupal; you should be using WordPress rather than Joomla. WordPress is easy, do you agree?

So the good news is that, now you are to choose between; WordPress and Drupal.

Static HTML for Special Cases

If you are a small scale business and looking out to build a small website, which you feel might not need updates too frequently, the easiest way out is Static HTML. However; be aware while choosing this option as updating content on such a site could become one of the biggest challenges for you in future.

Smaller Software: XOOPS, Zikula, concrete5, and many more, why not?

You won’t believe but you can certainly go ahead and narrow down your choices to a holistic family of small CMS options. But I don’t understand why you would want to confuse yourselves checking out a long list of free CMS software before making a final decision. See, I nowhere claim that other CMS options are down market or not feasible. You would have researched a lot for the right kind of CMS, to come across:

Zikula; the advanced version of much admired Post nuke.

XOOPS; happens to be a really strong contender, but is yet to make it to the mainstreams. Why; is a something that we may address separately.

Concrete5
; is the rising star as of now - but need to check out on the longevity of its success.

Some of them are really excellent, but unfortunately, you and your business website need something that is par excellence. The one that you are looking for has to be a mature product, supported by a huge and real community, and loaded with free modules and themes.

It’s your business website, really near and dear to you, so don’t go purely by my words. Go ahead to check out and compare Google search numbers.

So again we are at square one, as your solution happens to be either WordPress or Drupal. And would suggest to not to make CMS hunting your hobby, WordPress or Drupal is the best option that meets all your business needs.
Microsoft SharePoint: Specialized and Closed Source

Fine, I am with you on this as well. Let’s check on this other CMS, Microsoft SharePoint, which takes you to several programs.

See basically, SharePoint has similar content management system to offer, as the top three - Joomla, Drupal and WordPress. This is then supported by a gigantic ecosystem of contributed programs making SharePoint more powerful and option.

Though beginners’ versions are free and hence lucrative; external licensing costs are huge and as good as underlying server software.

For you, I feel, the most significant factor is probably its integration with Microsoft Office that you might be already using. Your employees trained on MS office, and prefer staying with it - SharePoint will certainly work out fine. But hey, I think our focus was on Public website, whereas this is more on the lines of specialized use case and internal company communication.

So I think you are with me in ruling out this option as well, while considering WordPress or Drupal, correct?

To conclude, I strongly recommend WordPress or Drupal

As I said earlier, if you are in the process of creating a new website, you have two evident options to choose from, WordPress or Drupal. They empower you with the flexibility and freedom. You might want to verify some of the industry leaders including The Economist, Yahoo, the Wall Street Journal, and even the White House.

Should you choose WordPress or Drupal? We will choose one of the not so obvious options, together.

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