Content management system

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Comparing Open Source Content Management Systems

• Drupal
• Joomla Wordpress

Presentation By ADMEC MULTIMEDIA INSTITUTE

www.admecindia.co.in
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Highlights

• Providing brief information about the popular
  open source CMS frameworks and comparing them.
• Content management system and its features.
• Popular Open Source CMS
• Brief info about open source CMS
• Comparison between Open Source CMS
• Which is Highly Recommended?

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What is Content Management System?

• Content Management System (CMS) is the powerful
  open source
• solution used to manage and control the
  content of a website and
• to create a dynamic website. Its a software
  tool that is installed
• on a server.

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What it can do for you?

• CMS solutions allows the web designers,
  developers and the users to
• Adjust the content management space
• Creation of high quality and highly interactive
  Multilanguage websites.
• Permits non-technical authors and editors to
  easily publish their content.
• Faster publication of the content
• Facilitates better content security
• Increased control over the website
• Creation of SEO friendly websites
• Lowers operating cost
• Minimizes web maintenance cost

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Popular Open Source CMS

• Following are the three most popular and widely
  used open source
• content management systems or frameworks
  across the globe.
• Drupal
• Joomla
• Wordpress

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Brief Info about Popular Open Source CMS
Wordpress Wordpress is the most popular
and user friendly open source blogging system
currently available, having global and vibrant
user, developer, and support community
Drupal It is a free open source CMS
that manages the content of and builds websites
and web applications. It is a modular framework
written in PHP scripting language and distributed
under the General Public License (GPL). Drupal is
a powerful tool for building complex,
professional and highly customized sites.
Joomla Its a semi user friendly
open source CMS platform for publishing content
on the site as a Model View Controller (MVC) web
application framework. It has extensive
capabilities of Drupal and generally used to
build complex sites requiring an easier learning
curve than Drupal.
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Comparison Between Popular Open Source CMSs
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Developer and Support
Drupal
Joomla
Wordpress
Joomla is developed by Leadership team and
doesn't have any support of any big authority.
Drupal is developed by Dries Buytarert and
supported by Acquia(.com)
Wordpress is developed by Mattthew Charles
Matt Mullenweg. and is supported by
Automatic(.com)
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Maturity
Drupal
Joomla
Wordpress
Joomla CMS solution officially came into
existence in the year 2001 and got split from
Mambo Fork in the year 2005
The Drupal CMS solution came into existence in
the year 2001
A Wordpress CMS solution came into existence in
the year 2003
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Abilities
Drupal
Joomla
Wordpress
Good output (design, printability, font sizing).
This CMS solutions was praised by designers.
High performance (20K request per second). This
CMS solution was praised by developers.
Wordpress has simple startup. Comprises of
practical CMS, but growing at a faster rate. The
solution was praised by beginners
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Complexity
Drupal
Joomla
Wordpress
Medium
High
Low
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Plugins Library
Drupal
Joomla
Wordpress
Medium (Plugins in joomla is reffered to as
extensions)
Low ( Plugins in Drupal are referred to as
modules)
High plugin library
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Basic Features
Drupal
Joomla
Wordpress
With Joomla one can easily create and manage the
contents of a website. Specifically designed to
create community platforms with strong social
networking sites.
Drupal is widely used for creating instant
websites or web applications with users,
articles, blogs, comments, and a forum. It offers
high scalability , organizes complex content,
powerful taxonomy, tag facility, etc.
Wordpress is highly user friendly. It offers
great support and tutorials- which enables the
web designers, developers and non technical users
to easily and quickly create simple sites. It
offers an extensive selection of themes.
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Ease of Content Administration
Drupal
Joomla
Wordpress
Moderate
Low
High
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Appearance of the Website
Drupal
Joomla
Wordpress
Entirely depends on the skills of the developer.
Entirely depends on the skills of the developer.
Allows creation of simple and pretty websites.
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Usage
Drupal
Joomla
Wordpress
Unknown number of sites
5 lakhs active sites
25 mm sites, total (12 mm on word press.com)
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Website Examples
Drupal
Joomla
Wordpress

• Harvard University
• IHOP
• (Restaurant chain)
• 3. Outdoor Photographers (Magazine)
• Citibank
• (Financial Institute
• Intranet)

• Louvre
• Zynga
• Hurley Medial Centre
• X. Commerce
• Team Sugar
• ADI (www.animationdegreeinstitute.com)

1. Entyce
2. Bluelounge
3. Design the Planet
4. Harvey Nichols
5. PlayStation Blog
6. CNN Political Ticker
7. NASA Ames Research Center

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Which Open Source CMS is Highly Recommended?

• Having looked at above comparison, we
• can say that all the three CMS enable you
• to manage your website in a concise and
• precise manner, but differ in their usage
• and specifications.
• Generally choice of an optimum CMS
• solution depends on the factor such as-
• Type of website you want to build,
• Resources required (Both technical and personal)
  , and
• Available alternative

Which one to choose???
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Why USE Drupal?

• Drupal is highly recommended when site focuses on
  community and user generated content.
• One can create high quality platforms for their
  website.
• It supports multi-language and multi-site
  features.
• Greater flexibility
• Has a great Application Programming Interface
  (API) , a number of hooks and tool kit
• overrides for extending.
• It offers powerful templating system, greater
  taxonomy, easy integration with other sites
• (Open ID), and changing the site without
  coding which makes it more reactive and special.
• Sites based on Drupal formats enable designers
  and developers to form any kind of user group and
  user permissions alongwith membership and
  community sites.
• Clients prefer Drupal formats when they need the
  CMS to bend anything they want.
• Examples www.animationdegreeinstitute.com
• www.drupal.com

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Why USE Joomla?

• Joomla is considered as one of the market leaders
  of open source CMS solution.
• It is widely recommended when Wordpress is not
  enough and application of the Drupal admin UI is
  too difficult.
• It provides a middle way ground to the designers.
• Joomla offers relatively simpler installation and
  setup than Drupal.
• One doesnt need to have the technical knowledge
  of the format.
• It permits creation of Multilingual Candy sites
  with a moderate investment of time and efforts.
• All sizes and kind of websites can be built using
  Joomla formats.
• Its renders more intuitive administration user
  interface, numerous of polished modules with
  add-on facility.
• Clients prefer Joomla over Drupal as a part of
  their technology portfolio or when website
  features can be accomplished or achieved with
  ready-made extensions.
• Examples www.joomla.com
• gsas.hardvard.edu
  

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Why USE Wordpress?

• Wordpress is regarded as a leader in both
  installations and brand exposure.
• It is highly recommended for the creation of
  small and medium size websites focusing primarily
  on blogging.
• It is best suitable for site which does not
  require several community features or the
  requirements which do not specify a lot more
  features than Wordpress can provide.
• Its administration panel is very flexible.
• The whole Wordpress system is easy to configure
  and edit with integrated editors for CSS and
  template files.
• It offers simple interface, several themes along
  with customization facility, full control over
  templates and, support forums without any ads and
  with limited space only.
• The major benefit of using Wordpress is that it
  makes the site cheaper, allows faster setup and
  reduces the maintenance burden.
• Examples www.wordpress.org
• www.entyce-creative.com

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I would highly recommend you to create a
startup website in each of the CMS first. After
that you would be more comfortable in deciding
for the best CMS for your needs.
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