Casey's IT Blog: Drupal vs. Wordpress vs. Joomla

For the group project section of my web development class we were asked to pick a CMS to use. Our three choices: Drupal, Wordpress, and Joomla. So the hunt began to find the best information on which one to choose! Here is what I found.

Drupal
Is great for advanced developers or people that love to hand-code their own websites! This CMS system is very advanced and many say it very much resembles a developer platform more so than a CMS system.

Wordpress
Many people instantly think that wordpress is only for blogging. But recently it has become one of the easier CMS for users to make websites, etc. Good web practices states "Since WP is already developed to work as a blog, though, it can be setup to do so without any hesitation. Comments are already built into the system, as well as pinging services, multiple blogger profiles, trackbacks and more. Most of the time nothing needs to be done to those systems either, because they already work the way that the user would want them to." However there are some cons. Wordpress is hard to setup a shopping cart on your site because Wordpress was set up to be very simple and easy to use. Adding advanced features using wordpress can be very difficult.

Joomla
"If Wordpress is more for end-users and Drupal is more for developers, then Joomla! must be more for designers, right? If that's the conclusion that you came to then you're on the right track, but I would venture to say that Joomla!" states Good web practices. Newcomers to the website have found that it is getting easier and easier to use because developers have added more tools to the website, making it easy to customize a great website! There are downfalls though, it is not as easy to manipulate the code as drupal. There are still parts of the system that you cannot customize as well as drupal.