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Migrating a massive legacy CMS to WordPress without losing your mind

Monday, March 7th, 2011

 

This has not been the best few days for WordPress. Despite the challenges that WordPress.com is currently dealing with — a massive distributed denial of service attack is never fun — the WordPress ecosystem is going strong.

For the record, I doubt this week’s DDoS was an attack aimed at WordPress itself. Usually, these sorts of attacks are political and aimed at a site hosted by a service. The rest of WordPress.com sites are probably just collateral damage.

WordPress.com, itself, is huge. It’s one of the top sites on the Internet. WordPress.com is differentiated from WordPress, the software. WordPress, the software, is an open-source environment that powers WordPress.com. While I wish the folks running WordPress.com well, what really interests me is the open-source PHP-based software.

That’s where my own connection with this story picks up.

A little over a year ago, I decided to migrate the ZENPRESS content management system, a system I first started coding back in 1997, from UserLand Frontier to WordPress. I chose WordPress for many reasons, not the least of which is that it’s the system that runs both ZDNet and CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360, two sites I write for.

When we started ZATZ Publishing (my day job) back in the late 1990s, there were only a few content management systems, they cost millions of dollars (and weren’t terribly good). PHP was a 1.0, Bill Clinton was President, Matt Mullenweg and Mark Zuckerberg were both 13, and the term “blog” had barely ever been used. It was a long time ago. Since then, ZATZ has published nearly 70,000 articles, linked to more than 150,000 URLs, and fed almost 2 billion Web pages.

Frontier, developed by Web pioneer Dave Winer, was itself a pioneer ahead of its time. Frontier ran the earliest blogs, the earliest RSS feeds, and the earliest podcasts. But time has taken its toll and Frontier hasn’t aged well. Although it was open-sourced in 2004, it had a number of problems, relatively low community support, and suffered from one fatal flaw: a key module was available in binary only, licensed code from a company no longer in business.

I never expected the ZENPRESS code to grow and evolve for 14 years, and it’s definitely outgrown Frontier’s capabilities. Tables in Frontier that should handle only a few tens of thousands of records have been asked to handle millions of records. Frontier crashes regularly on my servers, and I can’t move to 64-bit because Frontier fails on 64-bit environments.

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More: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/government/migrating-a-massive-legacy-cms-to-wordpress-without-losing-your-mind/10123

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A Look Back at Web CMS in 2010

Tuesday, January 11th, 2011

 

Web content management continued to be an interesting space in 2010 — from shaker acquisitions to the pivoting role of open source, not to forget SharePoint 2010 and a slew of new acronyms and debates. Let’s review the highlights of what’s happened.

1. WCM and WEM

The historical value proposition of web content management has been around ease of use for non-techies. Since then, the web has graduated from simple HTML and swirling graphics to a more multi-dimensional channel. Many organizations are starting to ponder not only how to manage their web presence, but how to manage user engagement more efficiently.

Brochureware days are over. The notion of a marketing campaign has changed. Web Engagement Management (WEM) is not a replacement for WCM, but rather an supplemental area of practice that includes many of the tricks for marketeers to do their jobs better.

Vendors jumped on the WEM bandwagon and started sprucing up/re-inventing their Online Marketing Suites, Website Marketing Acceleration solutions and Web Experience Management tools.

While WEM as a discipline is valuable, beware of vendor marketing and positioning messaging that doesn’t carry the weight behind it. If looking for WEM capabilities, be sure the tools are truly able to provide targeting and personalization, and tailored, relevant, localized, actionable content.

Consider larger scheme of things and the notion of the umbrella term of CEM – Customer Experience Management. Whether these acronyms are mere buzzwords or the real thing time will tell. But we’ll hear as much about them in 2011 as we have in 2010.

2. SharePoint 2010 and .NET CMSs

One of the biggest events of 2010 is the release of SharePoint 2010. Many held their breaths expecting a galore of new features. Some saw a lot of improvements, while others came to the conclusion that SharePoint 2010 (to put it mildly) is not the best technology to manage external web sites.

Many of SP’s shortcomings contributed to the rise of mid-market .NET CMS alternatives. While the Java vs. .NET debate will permeate the technology landscape for as long as both are alive, .NET shops are expressing more interest in CMSs that are not coming from Redmond, but can work on their Microsoft-centric infrastructures.

Let’s not forget that there’s also a set of vendors with mixed technologies under the hood. One of them, Alterian, discontinued their Immediacy CMS this year and dropped the Morello brand. The only standing product Alterian CM has a .NET delivery and APIs, but still is very much Java under the covers.

3. Day is Now Part of Adobe

In the spirit of market consolidation and CEM-for-all movement, Adobe has acquired Day Software. Following the Omniture acquisition, Adobe now has the needed bits and pieces to offer a set of tools for the customer experience management journey (online, offline and around) – if the integrations go well.

Technologically, there seems to be a lot of traction with LiveContent, LiveCycle, ES, CQ5, CRX and JCR in the play. The mélange of predominantly European and mainly American DNAs may present a cultural clash at some point, but which acquisition goes without some blood being shed, especially when a smaller company is trying to fit into the software giant that Adobe is?

Ever since Day broke its three years of WCM silence with the release of CQ5 in late 2008 and overhauled the upper echelons, we saw promising things coming out of Basel. How will things change with "now part of Adobe" in the tagline?

4. EPiServer: From Failed IPO to Acquisition

Quite quietly, Web CMS vendor EPiServer tried to set out an initial public offering, kept it under wraps when failed to do so and then got acquired by a company that has not been active in the technology space prior to this buy. The acquisition itself is not that interesting. The buyer is. With a myriad of technologies in EPiServer’s basket, let’s see next year which ones will be the good eggs.

5. Open Source Web CMS

Open source had a great impact on the Web CMS market. Market view of the open source continued to change from unknown and scary to "Hmm, let me take a look at this thing." While it still costs money to implement an open source Web CMS, there are several advantages weighing heavily in favor of OSS.

There’s been no lack in activity from vendors like Drupal, Liferay, dotCMS, Hippo, Magnolia, Jahia, Alfresco and many *many* others.

6. WordPress as a CMS Debate

Yes, the wildly popular web publishing and blogging tool (that is sometimes used as a simple tool for managing content for simple sites) has been on the minds of many this year. The debate on whether it’s a CMS or not has gotten to theological depths. Some started covering WP in their Web CMS reports. Others rebelled. Countless tweets and blog posts were exchanged fighting for the Holy Grail of the only truest truth. Turns out, there isn’t one.

7. WCM and Open Standards

2010 is the year of CMIS — the spec that was officially ratified in May. While CMIS is not as prevalent in the WCM space as it is in ECM and DM, there’s no indication that the standard will not evolve to the state of being truly applicable to web content management. With many organizations looking at interoperability and avoiding vendor lock-in, WCM vendors should exhibit more interest in this area in 2011.

The speed of adoption for CMIS is remarkable. Within the past several months we saw several reference implementations, including the xCMIS Project and OpenCMIS, which then merged with Apache Chemistry.

The JSRs didn’t see much action in 2010. JSR-170 was outranked by the long-awaited JSR-283 — Content Repository for Java Technology API Version 2.0 — late 2009, leading to the release of JCR 2.0. The next JSR spec JSR-333 (aka JCR 2.1) is in the making.

With the recent departure of the Apache Software Foundation from the JCP, there was a concern about the future of existing and new JSR specs. But it doesn’t look like there will be any impact at this time.

8. Web CMS Quilting Hobby of OpenText

OpenText, as usual, has been buying things for its quilt of Web CMS and other technologies. One of the reasons for that is to compensate for the lack of organic growth, as some financial analysts note. OTEX Q3 license revenue dropped 5% despite the Vignette acquisition from the year before. What used to be RedDot has taken the Web Solutions back seat in the orchestra, and Vignette was given the Web Experience Management flute to play.

Nstein was another acquisition with bets on their Text Mining Engine (TME) — now known as OpenText Content Analytics.

9. Oracle + Sun Debacle, (My)SQL Alternatives, Rise of NoSQL

Some hearts were bleeding when the Oracle + Sun deal was finalized. We looked at the acquisition from the perspective of the impact on the content management industry and saw some troubling signs.

Former MySQL founders and employees from the original, pre-Sun, pre-Oracle MySQL era didn’t lose much time to launch their alternative solution (SkySQL) for all ya’ll MySQL fans.

With the rise of NoSQL, Web CMSs like Lily may be getting more attention in the near future.

10. WCM and Social + Mobile

The iPad has changed the world. The iPad set a new direction for web content and website design. Gartner predicts tablet sales worldwide will hit 54.8 million units in 2011. With the whole world going mobile it would be not sensible for Web CMS vendors to up the mobile channel delivery game for mobile phones or tablets. And many have done so in 2010.

The mobile trend was about as popular as the social one. As "likes" are becoming one of the driving forces of today’s business world, software vendors turn to incorporating social media publishing/management features into their products either natively or via integrations. Tweets are starting to go through workflows, and your social graph can now be used by marketeers to dig into your personal preferences, as well as those of your friends, to upsell you the products "you may also like."

Source: http://www.cmswire.com/cms/web-cms/a-look-back-at-web-cms-in-2010-009450.php

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Tips to Decide Custom CMS Web Design Budget

Thursday, January 6th, 2011

 

An increasing trend has been seen in the Content Management System which has brought a revolution in the world of web designing. Deciding a custom CMS web designing budget at this stage of highly competitive online industry can really pay you rich dividends. With the increase in the pace of the CMS demand, the number of CMS web design service providers also increased significantly. But planning is the very first phase of carrying out any project. Budget planning at this stage provide you with an extra edge which enables you to develop all your strategies well in time so that you are ready to face any kind of future challenge. In this article you will find some basic guidelines which will help you to prepare your CMS web design budget in an efficient way.

PLANNING WELL IN ADVANCE: This is the very first stage of deciding anything for your budget. Before starting with anything you are advised to surf the internet and gain as much information as possible about all the service providers and their working patterns. This will give you an idea as to which sections are to be emphasized more.

QUALITY NEEDS TO BE PAID: This has become a fact that if you need a quality product which lasts for sometime, then you need to pay some higher amount for that. To establish a design budget our advice for analyzing web design prices may help you avoid the mistakes others make. If you have a light budget for the project, then you may look for the reputed ultra-affordable web design company so that you can be assured of the quality.

LEVEL OF EXPERTISE: It is an obvious thing that if you are opting a professional to design your site, then he will definitely charge you higher amount and if it is a freelancer then you may get some rebate in the charges. Therefore, it is advisable to decide your priorities that what kind of a service do you need and whom to hire for that.

TYPES OF FUNCTIONALITIES: This is another important factor which decides that how much it is going to cost to you. The more functions you will ask for your website, the greater amount will be charged by the service
providers. So, you need to plan accordingly that what is the scope of your business and what functions you will need to fulfill those needs. Moreover, CMS web development is not a one-staged process, but incorporates multiple steps to prepare a fully-functional and user-friendly website.

Keeping these points in your mind will definitely help you up to some extent and you can use your money in a more efficient way.

Source: http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/6069324/tips_to_decide_

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Keeping Control with CMS Web Design

Thursday, December 23rd, 2010

 

Having a website built is all well and good – until the content needs changing. Right? Isn’t it true that an employee can ruin a good website in minutes just by trying to change the news on the home page, or upload a new picture? Surely you need web design experience to do that kind of thing? Not at all. With CMS web design – which, after several years of refinement, is in the first flush of its prime – anyone can do anything to a web site without so much as making it stutter.

CMS (which stands for Content Management System) works like this. When the site is built, it is linked to a user friendly "back end" programme that allows individual items of content to be uploaded or removed. The content can take the form of text, images, media files – anything, in other words, that one would expect to find on a normal website.

A CMS web design links the content management programme to the actual coding of the site. Effectively, the CMS does the uploading "on behalf" of the person trying to add a file, or publish some text. The content management system slots that file into the exact right place in the web site’s code and programming – which means it pops up in the right location on the site, even though the person that put it there has no prior experience or training in web design.

The back end of a site built using CMS web design is usually set so it looks like a programme the user is familiar with: a popular word processing programme, for example. There is nothing to worry about – no positioning, no framing, no nothing.
The user simply types text as though he or she were typing it in a word processing programme; or drops images and media files in with a cut and paste tool. The site does the rest, and presto – everything is up to date.

This is clearly ideal for businesses where content changes frequently. Estate agents, who must update listings and particulars on a daily basis, are able to do so with no website design experience whatsoever – ensuring that the properties listed on their site are as accurate and up to date as possible. The CMS web design even allows them to link their own in house databases to the site’s content so things like availability and price changes take effect automatically. Whenever an entry is changed in the database, its information filters through to the website.

Bespoke content management systems, like the estate agent’s system mentioned here, are also able to link a company website with the other places on the web that company has regular dealings with. In our example of the estate agent, a bespoke CMS is able to drill a nightly data feed through to all the independent property sites in the UK, updating listings, particulars and prices without anyone needing to do so manually. Bespoke CMS web design will let users set up reports and upload parameters so tasks like this are performed every night without fail – no one needs forget because the site does everything for them.

Make life easier and keep the website running smoothly. Let a content management system do the work.

Source: http://business.ezinemark.com/keeping-control-with-cms-web-design-16ac2d3af30.html

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CMS Web Design – Joomla CMS – Web Designer Getting Started

Thursday, December 23rd, 2010

 

Joomla! is a content management system for publishing content on the World Wide Web and intranets as well as a Model-view-controller (MVC) Web Application Development framework. The system includes features such as page caching to improve performance, RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, news flashes, blogs, polls, website searching, and language internationalization. It is written in the PHP programming language and uses the MySQL database system to store information. Joomla is the result of a fork of Mambo. Released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Joomla is free software.

This is the Wikipedia definition of Joomla, not bad, but also maybe not so clear. In layman’s terms, CMS provides you or your clients with a very easy to use and manage system of adding, editing and creating content. That, is CMS in it’s most basic form.

Great for your client as it means they don’t need to pay someone $60 an hour to manage their sites content anymore, they can do it themselves. Might seem like a disadvantage at first, until you realize it’s an amazing sales tool!

From a web design standpoint Joomla is an amazing piece of work. One of the greatest features of Joomla is the ability to provide your clients with thousands of free plugins, modules and components for their sites. These things all extend the basic functionality of Joomla, allowing you to create anything from a small business website to a fully functioning corporate website with an integrated backend. The majority of these can be downloaded for free, offering your clients feature rich and interactive tools for their site bound to keep their customers engaged and coming back for more.

Others do have a fee but are often times more reliable as well as more feature rich.

Web Design has never been so easy! Not only are you able to develop amazing websites, Joolma extensions also allow you to do some great things when it comes to SEO (Search Engine Optimization). This way, you can add on an extra service for Marketing Related work as opposed to just Web Design. Are you sold yet, and want to know where to get started? Stay tuned for the next article that will help you get on your way!

Source: http://business.ezinemark.com/cms-web-design-joomla-cms-web-designer-getting-started-4f29f258b82.html

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Report Finds WordPress Leading the Web CMS Market

Monday, December 13th, 2010

 

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water&stone has released the 2010 Open Source CMS Market Share Report. PHP-based systems WordPress, Joomla! and Drupal continue to dominate the web content management space. But, while the Big Three remain unchanged from last year, the Report concludes that WordPress has re-taken the overall lead from Joomla!.

“WordPress had a phenomenal year. Our research shows downloads up over 100% and page views for the project site up nearly 200%. Publishing and developer support also increased dramatically since the 2009 Report,” notes lead analyst Ric Shreves. “While many of the other systems had good years, they were simply outpaced by the strides made by the WordPress CMS.”

Though PHP-based systems remain the populist choice, the survey places two .NET and three Java systems in the Top 20. DotNetNuke remained the market leader in the .NET space. In the Java WCM space, Liferay leads the market for the first time, with Alfresco trailing closely behind.

The findings in this year’s report were based on a survey of more than 5,000 CMS users, together with research into a wide variety of measures of market share and brand strength. “In addition to having a much larger survey set this year, the Report benefits significantly from the historical data we’ve accumulated across the last three years, allowing us to place the trends into context and reach more meaningful conclusions,” adds Shreves.

The Open Source CMS Market Share Report was launched in 2008 by digital agency water&stone. The Report is non-commercial and released under an open license. Since its inception, the Open Source CMS Market Share Report has become the industry standard for purpose of defining market share and adoption rates in the open source content management system market.

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Why You Might Want to Know About Joomla!

Wednesday, December 8th, 2010

 

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From a brewery to mental health therapy to cloud technology, all kinds of small businesses in all kinds of industries are using Joomla! software.

But you might be wondering, “What’s Joomla?”

“Joomla!” (that’s how it’s written, with an exclamation point), is a content management system (CMS) for creating websites. It’s become a popular system.  At least one source claims that millions of sites use Joomla! globally.

I’ve never had the chance to use Joomla! myself, but I’ve wondered about it.  So when we had the chance to catch up with Kevin Rice, who is a Joomla! enthusiast and developer, we jumped at it.  Kevin is co-founder of Hathway, a digital media agency and custom site designer that uses Joomla! to build sites. Dive into the super-quick interview below and learn a little more about this platform.

Question:  Joomla! has been described as an open-source software.  We hear the word “open-source” and many of us benefit from it, but in layman’s terms what does it mean?

    * Kevin Rice, Hathway: Open Source literally means that the code is released openly and viewable to everyone, as opposed to being encrypted and un-editable.  It is more of a way of thinking that involves the concept that knowledge should be shared in order to stimulate progress. In other words, Joomla! developers, leverage other developers code as building blocks for our projects, and make enhancements or modifications as needed to satisfy project requirements.

Question:  Would you suggest Joomla! to a small business owner who is an Internet novice?  In other words, is it a do-it-yourself option for building a site?

    * Kevin Rice, Hathway: It is critical to employ a Joomla! expert regardless of your technical capabilities for any size web project. There are  many options when it comes to software plugins to extend Joomla! functionality.  So it is important to work with someone who can guide your project in the correct direction and select extensions based on experience.

Question: Today WordPress is a popular content management system and perceived as easy to use. What is the main difference between Joomla! and WordPress?

    * Kevin Rice, Hathway: WordPress is a great platform. It is very simple and accomplishes its function to be a blogging system which could be adapted for small businesses. However, it is the Joomla! developer community and all of their add-ons that make Joomla! the most powerful open source CMS platform. Joomla! is incredible for small businesses because it is a platform for growth which will scale with their business as they grow.

Question: What types of sites do the best on the Joomla! Platform?

    * Kevin Rice, Hathway: Joomla! allows you to segregate various functions by departmental needs.  For example, a Human Resources Department can be limited to only have access to manage the careers page, or the sales team could log in and gain access to a password protected directory of sales resources. Joomla! is also incredible for web sites that rely on “user generated” content, such as directory web sites (think Yelp), or social networking sites (think FaceBook), or multi-vendor e-commerce sites (think Amazon).

Question: You said once that “Some small businesses shy away from Joomla! because it is such a powerful platform, but that should only be more reason to choose it.” What is the most basic way Joomla! is used – say, for a simple site use that can grow into something more robust?

    * Kevin Rice, Hathway: Joomla! really is a platform for growth that will scale with your business. Maybe you start with an informational web site. Then you add an online storefront. Then you modify the template to be mobile compatible to accommodate mobile shoppers. Then you integrate it with your fulfillment provider once your operation becomes too big to handle the orders. And so on.

Thank you, Kevin, for that quick interview.

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Open source Drupal takes Gardens path to big business

Wednesday, December 1st, 2010

 

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Open..and Shut Even as we rapidly approach a future where most software lives on the web, with acronyms like HTML5 and SaaS pointing the way, it’s easy to overlook a primary building blog of yesterday’s web, Drupal, and its effects on the future web. Drupal founder Dries Buytaert claims that Drupal already powers one per cent of the web. Could it do more?

Drupal, at the most basic level is an open-source content management system. But this belies just how expansive it has become, with thousands of add-on modules and millions of developers. Drupal is not a product. It’s a community. A massive, ever-growing community.

This has led to explosive sales figures at Acquia, Buytaert’s company that sponsors a fair amount of core Drupal development. But it also suggests huge potential for the Drupal community to extend Drupal from yesterday’s simple framework for building brochure-style websites to tomorrow’s web application framework.

Buytaert is clearly thinking along these lines. In a recent conversation we had on the possibilities afforded by HTML5 and web application frameworks like SproutCore, Buytaert suggested he sees Drupal becoming a useful framework for building mobile applications, in addition to all that Drupal already does. But I think he meant more than that. I think he believes Drupal can become the framework for building mobile applications and, hence, for making Drupal the common development environment for applications whether they live at "http://www" or on your Android device or iPhone.

Knowing Buytaert, I wouldn’t bet against him. He’s a nice enough guy when eating frites and drinking beer off Grand-Place in Brussels, as I was fortunate to do a few years back, but he’s a dogged, determined competitor, as Jive or other Acquia competitors could tell you.

And he’s got an army of developers behind him.

Does Drupal and, by extension, Acquia, have its challenges? Of course. As Gartner’s Larry Cannell points out, Drupal still has its work cut out for it in the enterprise market, and faces an array of low-cost competitors who are increasingly adept at competing with open source’s disruptive appeal. Buytaert claims 100-plus enterprise customers already, including the BBC, Sony Music, FedEx, and a range of others.

But more must be done to marry the power of Drupal’s open-source web framework approach with the relative ease of an application in order to seriously catch fire in enterprise accounts. Fortunately for Drupal, this is exactly what Acquia has been building with Drupal Gardens.

For all the power the Drupal community offers, it may well be Acquia’s Drupal Gardens that decides the battle. Drupal has widespread adoption but remains a bit difficult to use and to scale. Ironically, a few years back Drupal was criticized for being too lightweight for truly "enterprise-class" websites. Such projects were said to require something like Interwoven to manage. Now the inverse is true: Drupal is considered grown-up and almost too enterprise-y.

To truly make it a standard, Drupal must become as easy to use as a template-driven build experience, coupled with a SaaS-powered deployment experience.

More like Drupal Gardens, in other words.

Importantly, getting into Gardens doesn’t mean enterprises give up the security of open source. As Forbes’ Dan Woods articulates, Drupal Gardens allows users to enjoy the safety of a hosted, configurable Drupal experience but also the possibility of hitting the "eject" button to export code and move to another provider, if necessary.

This isn’t solely about portability, either: as much as enterprises may want to avoid mucking in the code, at some point they may have to, and Acquia’s open-source SaaS model gives them the chance to both configure and code as much (or as little) as they’d like.

Acquia and Drupal won’t win the enterprise overnight, and must overcome significant, entrenched competition like Squarespace (growing fast), Automattic/WordPress (blog tool increasingly used to build websites), Jive and others.

But Acquia has something none of these others has: a booming community, coupled with the chance to "curate" that community into an easily managed web experience through Gardens.

This could accelerate Drupal adoption further which, in turn, makes Drupal ever more likely to become the essential platform for all of an organization’s web publishing needs, from brochureware-style websites to mobile applications – and everything in between.

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Joomla Development and Customization

Wednesday, November 24th, 2010

by Indiadiary @ YouSayToo.com

Joomla CMS is an award winning Content Management System which is gaining popularity in the online industry as most of the website designers and developers are using this CMS to develop websites for their clients. It provides you with a wide range of applications which ranging from simple to complex websites and available in various modules with different upgrdation options. It is basically written in PHP script and supported by MySQL database. Joomla! provides an easy-to-use graphical user interface that simplifies the management and publishing of large volumes of content including HTML, documents, and rich media.

Joomla Web Development

Joomla is the best choice for website development. It allows you to manage and update the content very easily. You can easily use different joomla functions to manage your website. It provides you with the alignment of the best resource depending on your website requirements to fulfill the job with faster turn around time.

Features of Joomla

-Database driven site engines;
-You can edit and manage the sections like News, products and services;
-The contributing authors can add topics sections in it;
-You can customize the layouts including left, center and right menu boxes;
-Provides you with browser upload of images to your own library for use anywhere in the site;
-Dynamic Forum/Poll/Voting booth for on-the-spot results
Runs on Linux, FreeBSD, MacOSX server, Solaris and AIX;
-Allows you to manage third party components and modules.
Making search engine friendly URL’s.

Customization services

One of the reasons people go for Joomla is that it is free of cost as it can be downloaded from the internet, so that always leaves more resources on customizing it. Joomla customization offers you both customizing its built-in features and customizing the 3rd party components and modules. Whether you have a ready commercial script that requires modification or need modifications to the source code, Joomla Developers can provide you complete functionality in your website.

With the growing cut-throat competition and the increasing demands of the online visitors it has been very challenging for the online entrepreneurs to fulfill their needs and requirements. This is where Joomla has made its own stand in the whole online industry whether it is online shopping applications, site maps, community portals and micro site management, Joomla brings it all for you and it will keep on increasing its facilities for its users so that they gain maximum out of it.

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Deja Vu: WordPress defeats Joomla, Drupal again in CMS wars

Wednesday, November 24th, 2010

by Darnell Clayton

The results for the 2010 Open Source Awards are in and it looks like WordPress has once again defeated both Joomla and Drupal as the preferred CMS among the masses (at least those who voted).

Perhaps Joomla isn’t better than WordPress after all?

I was just informed that WordPress, in head-to-head voting against Joomla and Drupal, has won this year’s Open Source CMS Hall of Fame award.

We have to be careful because if this trend continues people might think WordPress is a real CMS, useful for more than just a blog. This would ruin our stealth campaign and might bring dozens of new users to the WordPress community. If you could keep this on the DL we’d appreciate it.

We don’t want WordPress to develop a reputation. (WordPress News)

Truth be told I am not surprised by the results, despite the fact that WordPress was never initially designed as a CMS while both Joomla and Drupal are (the latter which is about to release version 7.o).

With the exception of OnSugar (which is more of a cult of Drupal), both Joomla and Drupal are very difficult for users unskilled in HTML, CSS, etc. to use without geek assistance.

This probably explains why many of my non-geek friends have switched away from other platforms to WordPress, as they do not have to hire a geek in order to perform the simplest of tasks (or harass me for that matter).

Ironically BuddyPress (which allows bloggers to build their own social network) also made the list this year, although unlike its big WP brother it only took the bronze in the “Most Promising Open Source Project” category.

It will be interesting to see if WordPress is able to hold onto the crown in the future, as last I check the Drupal community is working to make their CMS much more user friendly.

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