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With this article we continue to share our experience of implementation the websites with free popular engines like WordPress , Drupal , Joomla etc. After delivering hundreds of such projects to the clients we collected number of tips/solutions which we think may be useful for other developers or clients. If you are interested in solutions to some problems you faced with please feel free to contact us - we’ll try to cover them as well.

If you ever tried to develop the WordPress sites you most probably faced with the problem we are describing. When you develop a WordPress site there is 99,9% chance that after development you need to move it from one server to another and even not just once. At the first glance there are no issues for more or less experienced developer - you … 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

The final results of the Open Source CMS Award 2007 competition, hosted by the famous British publishing house Packt Publishing were announced.

According to the results of three months voting Drupal won against Joomla, the winner of last year which was recognized as the best CMS with open source in the main competition category. 18 thousand users voted for it on the Packt Publishing Web site, expert committee also supported this decision.

Netbridge developer Cristian Darie, author of the CMSReport.com project Bryan Ruby and OpenAdvantage analyst (the first British open sourse Development Center which is not under the influence of any vendor) Elliot Smith were in the jury last year.

We would like to remind that Joomla and Drupal occupied first and second place respectively on the basis of a similar contest in 2006. Joomla has remained in the top three, but this time ranked the second place, Made Simple CMS occupied the … 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