{"id":19,"date":"2008-03-22T10:48:58","date_gmt":"2008-03-22T03:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.iwayvietnam.com\/tuanta\/2008\/03\/22\/is-drupal-the-best-cms-or-is-it-joomla\/"},"modified":"2008-03-27T14:51:12","modified_gmt":"2008-03-27T07:51:12","slug":"is-drupal-the-best-cms-or-is-it-joomla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.iwayvietnam.com\/tuanta\/2008\/03\/is-drupal-the-best-cms-or-is-it-joomla\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Drupal the best CMS or is it Joomla?"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I read forums, sometimes I see people asking for advice on which CMS would be adapted for their particular project, and often there are replies of what looks like Joomla fanatics who answer without any argument that Joomla is the best CMS.<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t stand it because I know it\u2019s wrong, but then I\u2019m not paid to promote any particular CMS nor am I paid by the original poster to convince him to choose the best solution for his project. Because let\u2019s be real here, for most common uses, from people who have no experience of CMS, Joomla will do the job as well as a number of other CMS solutions!<\/p>\n

\"DrupalI say that Drupal is the best CMS and I can back it up, but anyone who had first hand experience with both CMS can state the same as me: Joomla (and previously Mambo) is not as good a work of art as Drupal, it is less efficient and is less flexible. The positive thing about Joomla is that the graphic design part of their user community is clearly more developped than Drupal\u2019s and probably even the total user community is larger than Drupal\u2019s because when you look at both projects from an untrained eye Joomla look far better out of the box. Joomla also have tons of modules\/add-ons to add features and so has Drupal. In fact there are some \u201ccontests\u201d organized on the web and sometimes Drupal wins, sometimes Joomla wins. But honestly if a contest has public vote, then what? You have the biggest user community who can go to a website and vote and then you win? OK, this is lame. The next one in line is the Packtpub Award<\/a> with voting closing on october 26th and if you vote you could win a\u2026.. yes a stupid iPod, of course what do you think? It\u2019s not christmas! The award has a total fund of $20 000 in prizes you get to win a stupid iPod, life\u2019s cruel sometimes\u2026 And if Joomla wins, then life can be really cruel sometimes! Because, come on! Drupal is clearly better, even a canadian recognizes Drupal is the best<\/a>! Although finally he says that he would recommend Joomla over Drupal for an \u201corganization looking for a CMS to merely manage the pages and content on your website\u201d. In fact to merely manage the pages and content on your website, clearly any CMS would do the job, hopefully. But Drupal can do it too \"-)\"<\/p>\n

So the user community is more vibrant on Joomla, but the code of the CMS isn\u2019t as clean and efficient as Drupal. In Drupal the administration panel is part of the website, it\u2019s based on user\u2019s rights to see or not to see the administration menus. On Joomla it\u2019s more classic, you access the admin panel and manage things from here. The admin panel looks nicer on Joomla too, so you understand why many people believe it is the best CMS, it attracts the eye.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s is something that will change things a little, it\u2019s that Joomla will very soon have a major update with the 1.5 version, and Drupal will continue to improve with Drupal 6 before the end of the year. The major update of Joomla is worth installing and try out. But for sure Drupal 6 is the CMS to install to base your future projects on.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s simple, several years ago I had one Drupal and one Mambo (before being called Joomla) sites, and after that most of my projects have been done with Drupal, it\u2019s so versatile, so flexible, so clear and works like a charm, I never had anything to complain about, it can do so much more than what I have time to implement!<\/p>\n

OK, Joomla fanatics can say exactly the same thing as I said, but for me Drupal is the best CMS, if you\u2019re new to CMS and want to start a website, you cannot make a mistake by choosing Drupal and start to learn it. Anyway it doesn\u2019t hurt to install both CMS and start 2 websites instead of one, but if you have that kind of motivation and time in your hands, then you can learn deeper and deeper about Drupal, you\u2019ll love it!<\/p>\n

To rest my case I\u2019ll send to you to more reading dealing with Drupal vs Joomla:<\/p>\n