Drupal, Joomla & Other CMS SHOWDOWN Defend your own!

Hi all,

Specifically, how do each of the products stack up with these requirements? I don't think anyone can answer all of these questions, but I would like details on any one of them. I have asked these questions of professional developers (as I was evaluating these products a few months back) and I was quite surprised that the developers could not provide details, but generally talked in generalities. Any specifics would be greatly appreciated concerning these criteria would be appreciated, particularly security, backward compatibility, and reliablity. Thanks.

1) Good fundamental and symmetrical architecture that allows the functionality to be extended and supports flexible data presentation. It should look like one person developed it instead of hundreds.

2) Good separation between presentation logic and processing logic.

3) Easy to maintain. New versions should be backward compatible so that you do not lose your development investment in your site.

4) Stable and reliable. (Good coding and design techniques will help support this requirement).

5) Secure design. Does not require frequent updates because of new security
holes.

6) Good handling of spam.

7) Easy to upgrade when a new version comes out.

8) Good performance (a function of database and program design).

9) Easy to understand user and administrator interface.

10) Good documentation and support.

 

Thats good to hear vinylrick

 

Okphp Mulitple Blogs - Can be intergrated with phpbb,vbb,ipb..

 

I agree with an earliuer comment that joomla templates look the same, or are easy to tell a site is joomla.
More and more template makers are working to rectify this, which is good news.

 

well CMPs is best i vote for others

 

whats cmps?

 

e107! I've been using it for 4+ years now and a proud sponsor of the project.
It's the greatest CMS I've ever used.

 

favorite CMSs: Subdreamer, Joomla

Blog: Wordpress

Anything not mentioned here is relatively unstable or substandard, at least in my opinion

 

Three thumbs up to Joomla for me. (Don't ask where the other thumb is.)

 

how about when it comes to SEO do people find more success with joomla or drupal? I have never used joomla and i have worked in drupal and been very pleased with the results that i get in search engines.

 

There is no comparison. It can be Joomla vs Drupal, but not these two vs Wordpress. Between Joomla and Drupal, I'll say Joomla because of its interface. For blogging Wordpress takes the cake.

 

Wordpress is simply the best for SEO. Joomla has a SEF url mod, but it seems to have a lot of negative ratings.

 

All o them are absolute great systems, although I've never really use Drupal.

 

Although I'm in the minority, I use DotNetNuke (maybe the only person here). It's still in the early stages, but coming from a Microsoft developer standpoint, it's the most powerful out there.

There are still some bugs to work out, but I can buy a domain name, grab content, and have a 15-20 page website that looks good built in under 2 hours.

Flame away...

 

joomla is the easiest one, it let you focus on your content and not on cms maintenance.
I don't consider wordpress a cms ( at least not a full featured one )
and drupal, well if you know how to work with it and got some php skills - the best !

 

my friend also uses e107 and has been very happy with the results

 

lol...joomla seems to be winning i like joomla as cms, WP is better to use for blog

 

I ve read some comments pointing out that it is very easy to recognize a joomla powered site, can someone prove it false by showing some original designs or it is just true? On the other side, testing drupal hasn t been a very good design experience, not so many themes, lot of them buggy, i d like so see as well some well designed drupal site. Can you comment this themes point?

 

e107 rulez

 

WP can be fully turned into a CMS with ease, plus WP's look and feel are way better than those of Joomla. Don't get me wrong Joomla is still the best CMS around (non-commercial) but I would rather take WP over Joomla if WP was as supported as Joomla currently is.