Before we begin I would like to state that I am not an expert in Wordpress or Joomla. I have made custom sites in both and have set up plenty of installations for clients but caveat emptor
I feel like I know what I am doing but I might be delusional…
Over the course of the last couple of weeks I have read many comments, articles and tweets about how Wordpress is the bomb and Joomla sucks or Joomla has the best plugins and why would I pay 200+ for a CMS or Wordpress can only do blogs well. You get the idea right? I understand that we all have our favorite CMS. For the record ours is ExpressionEngine (duh!). But I can so appreciate what Joomla and Wordpress bring to the table so I wanted to try and do is take an objective look into the bowels of each of these CMSs. Basically we will be looking at the following:
Additionally if I see that the comments are bringing up a subject over and over again then I will try and include it as well. We won’t be able to cover all of the details and I am sure I will make a few mistakes (and I know you will correct them) but I really want to put together a resource for why you might want to choose one CMS over another.
Housekeeping: it bears mentioning that you can find each of these CMSs at their respective websites: Joomla, Wordpress and ExpressionEngine. At the time of this writing Joomla has 2 different versions 1.0.15 and 1.5.10. Wordpress has a single version 2.7.1 and ExpressionEngine has a single version 1.6.7.
Steven Grant says:
Looking forward to these installments. EE should smoke most in terms of ease and flexibility.
I made a choice picking a CMS last January for a project I was working on. Too many I’d used in the past had such a high learning curve.
EE was was the first I’d looked at (can’t recall how I found it) but I haven’t looked back. Once I got my head around the basic tags the rest fell into place.
Still learning of course.
04/20 at 09:02 AM
Neil H. says:
A comparison of CMS software on a site called EE Templates. I wonder what your conclusions will be.
04/20 at 11:52 AM
Marcus Neto says:
If it is any consolation Neil I still use Wordpress, Joomla, ExpressionEngine and build static websites as well. I really do believe that they each have their place. But I do acknowledge in the entry above that ExpressionEngine is my preferred CMS. I hope you will continue checking in and correct me if I get too biased…
04/21 at 10:18 PM
tinar says:
i like opera as i recently updated my version of it to test sites in. its relatively smooth. the truth is, at this point, i don’t care about which browser i use in the sense of rendering a site. i care about which is going to mess up my standard method of operation. i don’t want my browser to auto-fill the search bar with sites ive never been to trying to guess where i am going. i do not go to that many “new” sites.
06/15 at 03:27 AM
dpev says:
We recently ran a poll comparing Joomla, Drupal and Wordpress and found an overwhelming 75% of users prefer to use Joomla.
My personal opinion is if your trying to blog; use wordpress, if your building a site that requires anyone to update it Joomla, if you know your web coding, go for Drupal. Never tried expression engine.
06/17 at 06:59 PM
Magnus says:
Joomla is also an favorite of mine, but always remeber: Joomla has no real user-rights levels. That means, that you cannot define a group witch can also see a special sites. You always need core-hacks to solve this.
07/16 at 01:13 AM
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Joomla is a content management system that has to be installed on the machine with the web server.You access Joomla by logging into that web server machine on powweb using the Joomla application that is installed on their machine, not your machine.
01/12 at 01:13 AM
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Once you’ve installed wordpress you have a basic functioning web site. At this point you can easily download free (and paid) themes and plugins.
01/13 at 05:26 AM
It is awesome to see the amount of attention and opportunity that is coming to the EE community. Between the recent blog entries over at SmashingMagazine and SixRevisions and the recent addition of some Blogs that are aimed specifically at the
Freelance Folder just wrote up a great article on 12 businesses that were started by freelancers. Of mention were ActiveCollab (used by Ellislab and many in the EE Community), Duoh with Veerle Pieters and Geert Leyseele (whom are avid EE users), and
OK so all kidding aside YAML is probably my favorite CSS Framework of all time!
I have not, in the past, been a big fan of CSS Frameworks. I did an analysis of 4 or 5 of them about a year ago for our internal usage. I found them to be massive and
Every once in awhile we run across a resource that we have found handy. In this blog entry I wanted to provide links to some of those resources.
Fine Icons has some excellent icons available for download. They are free so have at it!
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