Choose the Best CMS

Since a majority of people are discussing Wordpress, Joomla and Drupal as the three best Content Management Systems, now the next step is to judge which is the best. Luckily, KITS team has got the opportunity of working extensively with all the three. Here we'll discuss the brief.

Only within the last year has Wordpress actually begun to step up as a true CMS. However the other two, Drupal and Joomla, have seemingly always been fighting for that top spot in the community. Both are open source, and both are widely developed with thousands of members in their community helping to develop and extend the possibilities of use for each. While Wordpress is considered the underdog in the CMS war, it is most definitely the king of blogging software (something that Joomla and Drupal struggle to do efficiently).

However, even where each has its flaws and each has its strengths you can build any kind of website with either one. I have built blogs with Joomla and I have built shopping cart websites with Wordpress. It just depends on what you need it to do, your familiarity with the system, and how long you have to work on that program. In fact, that is something that is misunderstood by many people - if you don't like using Drupal, that doesn't make it less valuable, it just makes it less useful to you!

Take a look at this Comparison Chart:

CMS

Pros

Cons

Wordpress

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  1. Simple to use - No need for modifications
  2. Excellent for blogging or sharing thoughts in a sequential manner
  1. Not developer friendly
  2. Upgrades bring more bugs than fixes sometimes

Joomla

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  1. Friendly for all types of users - Designers, Developers and Administrators
  2. Has been rapidly growing and improving itself for the past three years
  1. Still not user-friendly enough for everyone to understand
  2. Not quite as powerful as Drupal, and can be a bit confusing for some to jump into

Drupal

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  1. Extremely developer friendly. If I loved code more I would almost always pick this system.
  2. Can be used to create some really awesome websites that can outperform a majority of other sites out there.
  1. Not very designer and user-friendly. It's hard for someone with little code knowledge to make the leaps required

    to do the very cool things that Drupal is becoming known for.

  2. Getting a Drupal website published could cost you more time, and thus more money, than Wordpress or Joomla
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