Drupal, Wordpress and Joomla! wins open source CMS award
Ivan | Wed, 2009-11-11 01:58The winners were announced today:
We are pleased to announce that Drupal has won the Best Open Source PHP CMS Category in the 2009 Open Source CMS Award. This category featured a very close contest between the top three, Drupal, WordPress, and Joomla! in which Drupal ended up as the overall choice for the judges and the public.
While Drupal and Joomla! have always consistently featured among the top three in this category, WordPress made its way into the top five for the first time. The fact that it was outranked by Drupal by a very slight margin indicates how popular it has become with users as well as developers over the past year.
Creativebits runs on Drupal since 2005 when we switched over from Google's blogger and phpBB forum engines. So far it served us well because it was relatively easy to maintain and upgrade when there was a need.
I would be highly interested to hear what is your preferred platform of web development and why?
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I struggle a little with Wordpress being accepted as a CMS. It's the best blogging application out there right now, but content management systems generally infer a flexibility to the data they store. Correct me if I'm wrong, but Wordpress lets you store blog posts and static pages. That's not a CMS, that's a purpose built application.
I use Symphony CMS for most of my sites, and can't say enough good things about it. It's still missing a few key features, but XML+XSLT == the best presentation template language I've ever used.
Drupal allows blog posts and static pages as well. In fact, I fail to see how a static page disqualifies any web platform from being a CMS. A CMS is simply a content management application (as the name implies), it shouldn't matter if the content is static, dynamic or otherwise.
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what jim said.
"content management system" implies that you can manage the content without having to code. wordpress fits that definition, it's just not as flexible as the other CMSs.
I am also part of the small but growing group that use Symphony CMS. I love the simplicity of it and just how much of a joy it is to use. Definitely worth the short time it took to learn XSLT.
I'm a pretty noob at CMS and can only speak for Joomla. I made my first website with Joomla last weekend, I was really proud ^^ I'll go check out Drupal as well then.
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I've used all three and while I love Drupal and absolutely dread Joomla, I've found more use with Wordpress. To me, it's the easiest to install, set up and design for, not to mention the thought of bringing a client in to manage content themselves.
Hello - neophyte here... Which of these are popular on the Mac? My PC-loving brother is hot for Joomla - but like Sgt Schultz - I know nothing. Which is good for beginners on the Mac? Just wondering...
I have used Drupal since I heard about it on SpyMac® in 2004. Which is also where I heard about creativebits.org 5 years and 1 day ago.
Wow I just looked up my account and I am member 105 of 34629 :-)
I love all the modules that are out there for Drupal and the community that is willing to help you help yourself. Instead of just giving you the solution most members guide in the direction of finding a solution to your question.
Drupal has blogs, photo galleries, forums, events, and more... I know I sound like I am selling it but it really is that cool.
i think all of these are platform-independent. they're all online.
Honestly, it doesn't matter whether you use Mac or PC if you plan to use Wordpress, Joomla!, Drupal, or any other online CMS. As long as you have a compatible web browser, you should have the same experience. I'm focusing on Joomla! myself.
If you're interested in an easy-to-use website app for Mac and don't need a CMS, look at iWeb or RapidWeaver.
Since iWeb is already on your Mac, you already have a tool to make a great personal website. The one thing to keep in mind is that iWeb is not designed to make commercial sites, so it doesn't create things like Meta tags and other SEO data. But if you grab a free copy of Rage Software's iWeb SEO Tool (http://www.ragesw.com/products/iweb-seo-tool.html), you can easily overcome this obstacle and make some great sites with very little technical knowledge.
(For you skeptics out there, I've built a site at www.conchettahouse.org for a local nonprofit that has everything from scrolling marquees to an online store.)
RapidWeaver (http://www.realmacsoftware.com/rapidweaver/) is like iWeb on steroids. It has the design simplicity of iWeb, with extensibility like higher end, professional apps. At $79 retail, you'll get professional looking results with a short learning curve.
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Open source is evil!
If it were not they would charge for it!
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This might be interesting for reading as well:
http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/01/how-to-choose-the-right-cms/
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I've been learning Joomla! for the past couple of months. I'm amazed at the wide array of extensions that are available. Chances are, if I come up with an idea for something, somebody has built an extension for it.
As many have discovered, Wordpress is the easiest to set up a blog site, while a more extensible CMS like Joomla! or Drupal makes sense if you want to build more diverse sites.
On a side note, I've been doing a lot of investigating into blogging enhancement tools for Joomla!, and there are certainly some great options available. I've decided to go forward with SuperBlogger (http://www.joomlaworks.gr/content/view/56/42/) because it is very inexpensive, easy to implement, and takes advantage of the existing Joomla! article structure. It also uses some really interesting technologies, such as Disqus (www.disqus.com) to turn commenting into a way to build an integrated, social networking tool.
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MODx [http://modxcms.com/] is my personal choice. Actually it is CMF (Content Management Framework).
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