Comments on: Google Strongly Supports the Joomla! CMS

By: Ehab

Ehab — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 02:20:05 +0000

Yes indeed Jonathan. And James, right indeed. Comparing the two, were the last thing we were doing. Its just that, both serves different purpose.

For me, WordPress is a much quicker thing to learn and execute.

A good wordpress theme designer can take about one day to finish off a good theme. And without much hard work, a good designer can bring out great results. Look at this theme for example, I simply love the markups and the way Jonathan is displayed in the comments ! Gotta love that CSS inside.

Anyway, have fun out there everyone.

By: Jonathan Dingman

Jonathan Dingman — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:42:36 +0000

James,

That’s also true. It is was hard to compare the two, but exactly like you suggested, the definition of a CMS has changed and evolved over time.

They have morphed into more of just general group-ware now instead of “this is a CMS” and “that is blog software.”

By: James Logsdon

James Logsdon — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:23:46 +0000

In my opinion, you can’t really compare WordPress and Joomla. WordPress is Blogging software while Joomla is a full-blown CMS. Different roles.

Then again, the role of a CMS has changed a lot over the past few years to more of a group-ware role.

By: Jonathan Dingman

Jonathan Dingman — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:16:33 +0000

Ehab,

I completely agree with you. I have been extremely happy with the WordPress platform. The community powering it has made it extremely flexible to use — for any reason.

I’ve built a number of various websites using WordPress simply because it’s so easy to use. Joomla and Drupal have a larger learning curve for the theme development. I feel WordPress knows how to do it right.

I have a new site that I’m getting ready to launch soon called StudenTools.com, which is all WordPress-based. I’m still playing around with some different things, but it’s really coming along and it’s exactly what I needed.

I had tried other CMSs out there like Joomla and Drupal, but I couldn’t get any of them to work exactly how I wanted them to. It took a bit more hacking, but I can manipulate WordPress to do what I need it to.

By: Ehab

Ehab — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:37:29 +0000

Hi.

Joomla is excellent, when it comes to sites for organizations or companies – they do really well. The custom templates and the whole templating system is awesome – a designers dream to mold.

However, WordPress, is nothing short of it. Being much easier to use, WordPress would be my choice.

Its just that, Joomla comes out of the box with a lot of options that lets you setup like a pro.

But for wordpress, there is still a lot of css and html to do – in order to personalize your site properly.

Regards.