http://sixrevisions.com/web-development/how-to-evaluate-what-cms-to-use/
Make an informed decision on what CMS is right for you.
Here are eight characteristics that a good CMS should have:
1. Intuitiveness: easy to understand and use
2. Flexibility and Ease of Customization
* make sure that you’re not obligated to use their design templates.
3. Extensibility via Plugins and Modules
4. No Need for Programming Knowledge
5. Optimized for Performance and Speed
6. Security
7. Documentation and Community Support
8. Emphasis on Web Standards and Best Practices
comments 1:
one important missing feature for many of us in Content Management:
The ability to maintain with ease a multilingual website, i.e. exactly the same website in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
Some systems like Joomla or wordpress have plug-ins but in the end it becomes so difficult to manage a ML website with them.
comment 2:
I have used WordPress and Joomla. From the two i think Joomla is more easily editable via admin menu with modules, plugins and components. But it has some serious problem with code, it contains TABLES and other dirty stuff, not SEO friendly.
Wordpress is more clean organized, more “modern” and SEO friendly. I like everything about it, the only bad thing is that you can only add widgets and modules to the sidebar when you are in admin menu.
comment 3:
After becoming acquainted with WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal I have come to a couple of conclusions with them.
WordPress is a fantastic Blog CMS. Not a full featured website CMS. For full feature websites I like Drupal over Joomla. Joomla was a great place for me to start understanding how larger CMS systems work as it provided most of my needs out of the box, but now I like the variety of options and updates that the Drupal Community puts out. Drupal can be daunting to someone new as there are quite a few contributed modules and some that tackle the same problems. This can confuse and annoy those new to the game.
Comment 4:
Good article. We use Joomla and WordPress. Still have not had the need to look for something else. But it’s always fun to experiment, so I may try a couple of the above. Thanks!
Make an informed decision on what CMS is right for you.
Here are eight characteristics that a good CMS should have:
1. Intuitiveness: easy to understand and use
2. Flexibility and Ease of Customization
* make sure that you’re not obligated to use their design templates.
3. Extensibility via Plugins and Modules
4. No Need for Programming Knowledge
5. Optimized for Performance and Speed
6. Security
7. Documentation and Community Support
8. Emphasis on Web Standards and Best Practices
comments 1:
one important missing feature for many of us in Content Management:
The ability to maintain with ease a multilingual website, i.e. exactly the same website in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
Some systems like Joomla or wordpress have plug-ins but in the end it becomes so difficult to manage a ML website with them.
comment 2:
I have used WordPress and Joomla. From the two i think Joomla is more easily editable via admin menu with modules, plugins and components. But it has some serious problem with code, it contains TABLES and other dirty stuff, not SEO friendly.
Wordpress is more clean organized, more “modern” and SEO friendly. I like everything about it, the only bad thing is that you can only add widgets and modules to the sidebar when you are in admin menu.
comment 3:
After becoming acquainted with WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal I have come to a couple of conclusions with them.
WordPress is a fantastic Blog CMS. Not a full featured website CMS. For full feature websites I like Drupal over Joomla. Joomla was a great place for me to start understanding how larger CMS systems work as it provided most of my needs out of the box, but now I like the variety of options and updates that the Drupal Community puts out. Drupal can be daunting to someone new as there are quite a few contributed modules and some that tackle the same problems. This can confuse and annoy those new to the game.
Comment 4:
Good article. We use Joomla and WordPress. Still have not had the need to look for something else. But it’s always fun to experiment, so I may try a couple of the above. Thanks!
