There are three major open source CMS tools today, Wordpress, Joomla and Drupal. They all have their advantages and disadvantages. WordPress is the most popular and has a user friendly administrative tools designed for simple blogs. Creating a large-featured website with Wordpress CMS is very time consuming and difficult.
Joomla and Drupal are much more advanced and falls more properly in the "real CMS". Drupal developers and "Scandinavia's platform", there are other words for those who love to write a lot of code. It is more complicated and time consuming to install, configure and customize Drupal. Even for retail Drupal harder to manage. Because of this, it is often much more development.
Joomla falls between these two by being a very powerful and flexible solution, but still have the simplicity and ease of use in mind. We believe Joomla certainly have found a perfect balance. It is also a fact that the development cycle by creating a website with Joomla (from start to launch website) is significantly shorter than with other CMS tools. In this way we get on WebDay more time to make your website attractive and easy to use without limiting features and capabilities. If you choose Joomla as CMS tools to get more for your money!
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Wordpress vs Joomla vs Drupal
A test is conducted to create the exact same website with all these three CMS tools.
The result is very convincing in Joomla favor. As the table below shows, it takes far less time to get the page created with Joomla. We can allocate more of our time actually making the website attractive and user-friendly. Then as a bonus to get our code much better results by W3C validation tools.
The result:
Wordpress
Timer totalt
90.5
Development of frontend:
36.5 hours
HTML Validation:
Nei (8 error)
CSS Validation:
Nei (21 error)
Number of kilobytes:
154kb
Lines of code written
1808
Joomla
Timer totalt
57.25
Development of frontend:
15 hours
HTML Validation:
Ja
CSS Validation:
Nei (1 error)
Number of kilobytes:
140kb
Lines of code written
30
Drupal
Timer totalt
79.25
Development of frontend:
21.75 hours
HTML Validation:
Nei (8 error)
CSS Validation:
Nei (7 error)
Number of kilobytes:
180kb
Lines of code written
220