Monday 23 January 2012

WordPress, Joomla, Drupal? An Answer to the Perpetual Conundrum


If you have had a stint with the website design and development, this very conundrum, that is, whether to opt for WordPress Development, Joomla Development, or Drupal development etc must have also given you the sleepless nights. In the present competitive world, with the increase in web services and consistent growth in web site design and development, one is busted with choices up to an extent that it gets too difficult to make up the mind and choose from.

Talking particularly about these content management systems, the choice is certainly a difficult one as each one of the offers a distinct service. These are discussed below -



WordPress Development – What started of as blogging tool and publishing platform has now been actively used as a back end process for the website owing to its highly user friendly and impeccable features that it contains. With the use of apt plugin, the scope of WordPress website can be anytime increased and the widgets allow the users with simple drag and drop options to update their websites.

Pros
  • Web friendly and user friendly.
  • Simple and feature rich CMS.
  • Self explanatory and easy to understand.
  • Simple user interface – does not intimidates the users as Drupal CMS does.
Cons
  • Not as powerful as Drupal.
Joomla Development – Joomla is your answer, if you wish to create a beautiful looking community web sites. The community web sites are very much popular these days, thus if you wish to create a web site, lets say perhaps a niche where different authors can come together and co author a book and etc, Joomla development is the answer.
Joomla supports the development of complex web sites and can be viewed as a intersection between Drupal Development and WrodPress development.

Pros
  • Joomla development is a very friendly solution for different users like the designers and developers and the administrators.
  • Sturdy support from Joomla community, one of the biggest in the virtual world.
  • It is a promising solution and you can expect growth in its CMS design with respect to time.
Cons 
  • Not as user friendly for everyone to understand.
  • Not as powerful as Drupal.
Drupal Development – if you have a king sized website development planned in your ead, go with Drupal. With Druapl module and a wide range of features and additional functionalities that Drupal CMS provides, it is the one stop solution for developing large scale extensible websites.  

Pros
  • Powerful and strong open source CMS.
  • Large scale website development.
  • Highly technically rich website development.
Cons
  • It is too technical for a first time user.
  • The user interface is quite intimidating.
  • Makes the choice of usability Vs Design difficult.
    The Conclusion:

    It is a common notion that each and every developer will go by their own content management system. Needless to say that Drupal developers will favor Drupal CMS, the community of Joomla developers will stand by the content management system of their own choice and WordPress developers will be adamant that there is nothing like the WordPress content management system when it comes for developing the web sites and the suitable choice of the back end process for maintaining and sustaining the web site.

    The reason why we feel that WordPress Development is the best amongst available solution for you, is that it is extremely easy to utilize and customize and has amazing features for search engine optimization. It is a common notion to feel that WordPress development is not as broad and scalable and technically aristocrat as the Drupal Development, but that is certainly not the real scenario. In real, WordPress development is as scalable and broad, as can be and is better as compared to Drupal development as it provides really easy to use features. Unlike Drupal development, you do not need a WordPress developers to make any changes in the content of the website or the CMS design. As told above, with the easy drag and drop options, any sort of up gradation and modification can be carried out without a great deal of effort.

    However, in the end, it all boils down to your own needs as an enterprise. You may use the system you feel like and of course if you wish to create a community website, there is no solution as Joomla development. Thus the conclusion is, though WordPress CMS emerges victorious in the current choices, however if you have a specific web site development need in mind, then go for the specific content management system.

    1 comments:

    Cris Monde said...

    Web developers mostly prefer to use Wordpress in making or creating websites. But i think Joomla and Drupal are also good.

    Wordpress Developer

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