The top open source CMS in the market is Joomla, Drupal, and Plone. Joomla is easy to use, set up, and maintain. Joomla can be installed in basic shared hosting. Its installer looks much like the simple desktop software. The administrative interface looks much like a desktop program as well.
Drupal has the combination of power and ease of use. It is built in PHP and can be hosted in a basic shared hosting. Drupal needs more more of a learning curve than Joomla, but offers more functionality for sophisticated websites.
Plone can be used to create a powerful world-class applications. However, the learning curve for web developers is substantial. Plone also needs special hosting requirements. Plone can be a great choice for meeting sophisticated website needs.
Im summary, Joomla is the easiest to use, and plone is the most powerfull. Drupal stands between them.
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Although the article doesn´t claim to be all covering there are a lot of very powerful websites running on Drupal – look at Harvard Science, FastCompany or SUN learning sites. I wouldn´t say that Plone is necessarily more powerful – it really depends what you want to accomplish. In terms of user interaction and collaboration I would go for Drupal. You might guessed it – we use Drupal a lot
I realize you haven’t tried to go into too much detail here and provide a quick overview, but I don’t think it gives Drupal credit to just say it’s somewhere between Joomla and Plone.
All of these systems have something going for them, and are suitable for different tasks. Drupal is an excellent choice for user based web apps like social networks or social media type of sites. As the previous commenter said, it’s in use on some very high profile sites.
Drupal has it’s quirks, but as a developer I find it an excellent platform to build on top of as it has a very solid set of APIs for a lot of the common web development tasks.
thank for the comment Darren. It sure add more knowledge to people reading this blog.
Thank you for such an useful post
You're welcome :)
I’m definitely a fan of Joomla! It’s just so easy to use, and I wish I’d started using it years ago (instead of messing around with Dreamweaver for so long). I haven’t had much experience with Drupal or plone, but I’ve heard positive feedback about both of them.
Great post! Thanks!
Hi, LOL - Forget Dreamweaver - It's the era of CMS, and Joomla is one of the best :) I personally prefer Joomla over Drupal, as it's more user friendly.
I am joomla lover also.
I agree its ease of installation, use and management. simply rocks!
Thanks for the info.
Hi, Yes - it's very powerful, too - You can make virtually any kind of sites you can think of.
CMS is definetely the king when it comes to website development these days. There are some excellent examples of large companies using Joomla and Drupal for their intra and internet sites.
With the right template design, you can achieve excellent looking sites that are easily extensible going forward.
Another difference:
Most joomla modules are paid. drupal modules are almost all free.
Great article! I’m mostly developing websites for small to large business and I’ve discovered that CMS Made Simple fullfills my needs. Mind you, you can’t build any portals with or communities, but I can develop 95% of the websites I’m asked to do with this system.
I think Joomla is a good content management system, but honestly it’s not my favorite. It’s laid out nicely and pretty easy to understand once you get used to it. I get annoyed at some of the verbiage it uses because I don’t think it’s very straightforward… for instance “Articles” really refers to Pages, so why aren’t these just called Pages in the first place? This can make it hard for non-web savvy people to learn Joomla since its not as cut and dry as other CMS’s.
Any feedback from you?