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Free 3d-party CMS.
Official site: http://drupal.org .
Advantages: templates control; system architecture; API; taxonomy; community.
Disadvantages: difficulty of working without preparation.

If you wish to completely control appearance and functionality of your site (level of control depends only on your desire), and thus not using dirty methods (like hacks of initial code of the core and modules) and to work only through API and extremely flexible template system – Drupal is for you.

In general, Drupal is first of all a constructor. The core contains only the most necessary — the lowest level which functions will be used in various modules. Basic Drupal installation already has many modules inside (such as blog, forum, search etc.). All is arranged very reasonably and smartly, and there are at least two ways to make what is necessary almost always. Sometimes this choice itself is a problem — it is possible to make … read more

Drupal, Joomla and WordPress are management systems. It is possible to create functional and easy manageable sites without serious financial expenses on their basis. We have decided to compare these systems among themselves and to tell about it in comprehensible language. We have chosen the most important aspects which most likely will interest the ordinary user.

Versions/Security

Drupal

The 7th version is now prepared for release. It is available for testing as beta version. Now 6.6 and 5.12 versions are used. The line of the 5th version hasn’t died as fast as the 4th one because a lot of exterior modules had been written and some of them hadn’t been adapted for the 6th version. New versions are tested for a long time. A core is stable. Bugs in demanded modules usually get fixed operatively. Now a variety of large corporate sites of the world names companies work on Drupal, … read more

WordPress, one of the most popular blogging platforms (if not the most), is capable of being more than just a blog platform. It’s capable of being a full-blown CMS (Content Management System). As someone who has both written small, custom CMSes from scratch as well as evaluated million-dollar professional CMSes for large corporations, WordPress’ robustness never ceases to amaze me.

The key to many of the unique uses can be attributed to any or all of the following components:

1. Custom theme.
2. Custom code tweaks
3. Custom or widely-available plugins.
4. Custom fields per post.
5. Custom code to use the custom fields.

Why Use WordPress?

Not everyone is for the idea of WordPress as a CMS. Some bloggers point out a variety of technical issues (which I’m not getting into here). True, WP is not a high-end CMS, but it can get the job done, especially for low-volume use. The point is that with WP, you … read more

Joomla is known for not simple user interface.

It is almost impossible to start working without reading the documentation.

Compatible in different browsers.

Site structure is logically divided into several parts, which also makes it difficult to understand the processes at the site.

Very functional visual editor, works well in different browsers, the best in IE6. Supports files downloads.

The design is not separated from the content, templates are the mixture of html and php which is very inconvenient sometimes.

However Joomla is openSource which partly justifies the creators of this cms. You can provide any changes to the system. But I do not think that someone would choose CMS to start changing it. But adding small scripts (PHP for example) is not implemented.

Provides serious overloads on the server when a number of visitors is large, although there is cache.
There is no clear users division.

But a huge advantage, thanks to which this system has gained such … read more