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#1 Joomla
Not the fastest or simplest application ever but tremendously powerful and flexible.
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Not the fastest or simplest application ever but tremendously powerful and flexible.
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Joomla is sooo heavy to manipulate! I don't find it flexible at all. It's full of features, granted but very unpractical to manage or customize anything.
It's a real pain to re-brand, install modules and configure them for instance.
It's a powerful a CMS but the usability is poor.
Do you find Drupal any easier to manage? Or some other CMS?
I find CMSMS is easy. It doesn't provide any version tracking which I recall Joomla does. It has fewer modules but still a nice list. Very easy to work with. Seems easier from a client perspective.
CMS Report gives Drupal #1, Joomla and CMSMS tied for #2.
http://cmsreport.com/b...-tie-second
I am finished comparing Joomla to Drupal and have decided upon Joomla. I am not as heavily oriented toward programming and feel more comfortable with the Joomla approach. Can anyone relate a good word for Joomla?
I'm not a programmer but do consider myself a technically savvy user. I like Joomla a lot but I found the learning curve to be quite steep, at least initially.
I struggled quite a bit in making sites 'pretty' and fully functional until I found this great (commercial) template resource http://www.rockettheme.com/joomla
Joomla is defined here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joomla!
A good word for Joomla would be crowd. Crowds always believe they are going in the right direction. Any signal that the crowd is wrong is often lost in the noise that it is right, such is the wisdom of the crowds.
I wouldn't underestimate MoDx http://modxcms.com/ CMS that gives you the freedom to build sites exactly how you want from ANY template.
http://community.modwest.com/answer/841/MODx
I agree with squiggle. The crowd often suffers from groupthink. I really have no idea why people like Joomla so much.
Seems like the best CMS is judged by its greatest number of contributions and followers. Would you buy the car that has a good engine but not a lot of aftermarket upgrades? Or would you buy a car that has a lot of aftermarket upgrades but a crappy engine?
I lean towards a good engine, and consideration for what is best for the "driver."
One of my sites is based on Joomla and while its nice. I find that if you want to expand beyond the very basics it is a lot of work and a long learning curve. But one project site the owner bought the market speak of the Joomla crowd hook line and sinker. So now we will have to sink or swim with it.
I recently had to learn Drupal in two days and managed to pull it off. I had a similar task with Joomla a couple of years ago and it took me weeks. Maybe Joomla has improved since then, but I found it clunky and incomprehensible. Drupal, on the other hand, had its quirks but was for the most part intuitive enough to figure out the basics in a couple of days. Perhaps not a fair comparison given the different versions I tested, but I am now a Drupal convert.
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