Which CMS is right for you?
Debates have gone on which CMS is better for the best web development experience. Some would say Drupal, others would say Joomla! and a few others would say Wordpress. We here at Hangad use all three and we have tested these CMSs and found out the following.
Wordpress – for corporate “billboard” sites, wordpress is the most apt. If there’s less interactivity and more browsing and information dissemination, we’ve found wordpress to be the best for such sites. It has a friendly backend panel with all the tools you need to run a small site/blog and has a few added extras to keep things interesting. It is a powerful CMS don’t get us wrong, it just doesn’t have everything you need for long term/heavy development.
Joomla! – Joomla! we would say is the most client friendly of all the CMSs. The backend panel is soo friendly with all the “managers”. Article Manager, Category manager, Module manager. It’s a bit difficult to grasp at first since even menus are modules and you would think of using Menu Manager to add a menu but apparently you do that in Module manager. However, if you have a client who wishes to only add articles and other content once in a while, this CMS is perfect. Just don’t give them 100% access to the back end. Content management only.
Drupal – Drupal is the most powerful of all the CMSs we here at Hangad use. It has very impressive community backing and you never have any questions unanswered in the long run. However, it is not the CMS for people new in the field. We highly recommend Drupal only for extensive web development particularly web applications and very dynamic websites. It’s not friendly for clients as well since the backend is quite a doozey to operate.
We will discuss these CMSs at length at another post.
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