Joomla and CMS Made simple systems comparison
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Often times it would be more than enough just to code a plain, couple page HTML & CSS site, however people decide to use something like Joomla as its back-end.
Joomla is a great platform, powering many websites, portals, and online communities. Although it seems that it has been loosing grounds to Drupal recently. However, for all the intents and purposes of this article, let’s compare using Joomla vs CMS Made Simple (CMSMS) for small to medium business site.
Small business site would normaly have a few pages such as contacts, about us, services / products. Medium business site would probably include a couple more pages such as team etc. and would have more in-depth content as well as some fancier bits and bobs such as maybe a contact form, product catalog, gallery, etc. Now that is not to say that all small or medium business sites look alike. Some tiny companies have sites that are fancier than sites for major corporations. However, once again, let’s just do it for comparison purposes.
Both: Joomla and CMS MS are quite easy to install, if you at least know how to connect to FTP and also set up a MySQL database. Both systems also come with quite nice default themes and preinstalled core modules. So where do the differences start?
Well, let’s start with templating. Some people have built entire businesses around creating templates for Joomla and there are tons of them, both: free and paid. CMSMS does not have so many pre-made themes, however do you really want to use a standard template if you want your business to stand out?
OK, so we have a site with a nice template. How about adding content? That’s where Joomla fails in usability for your average Joe Shmoe. In CMSMS you have a hierarchical list of pages, so basically a menu tree right away, where as in Joomla every page is a news article belonging to a section and you also have to create menus separately by hand.
Number of available modules definitely brings a big plus to Joomla. Just like with templates, you can choose from a variety of free as well as commercial modules whereas CMSMS module development has been stagnating recently. However, if you ever need to write your own module, writing one for CMSMS will be so much easier because it’s a much smaller and less complicated / confusing system.
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Often times it would be more than enough just to code a plain, couple page HTML & CSS site, however people decide to use something like Joomla as its back-end.
Joomla is a great platform, powering many websites, portals, and online communities. Although it seems that it has been loosing grounds to Drupal recently. However, for all the intents and purposes of this article, let’s compare using Joomla vs CMS Made Simple (CMSMS) for small to medium business site.
Small business site would normaly have a few pages such as contacts, about us, services / products. Medium business site would probably include a couple more pages such as team etc. and would have more in-depth content as well as some fancier bits and bobs such as maybe a contact form, product catalog, gallery, etc. Now that is not to say that all small or medium business sites look alike. Some tiny companies have sites that are fancier than sites for major corporations. However, once again, let’s just do it for comparison purposes.
Both: Joomla and CMS MS are quite easy to install, if you at least know how to connect to FTP and also set up a MySQL database. Both systems also come with quite nice default themes and preinstalled core modules. So where do the differences start?
Well, let’s start with templating. Some people have built entire businesses around creating templates for Joomla and there are tons of them, both: free and paid. CMSMS does not have so many pre-made themes, however do you really want to use a standard template if you want your business to stand out?
OK, so we have a site with a nice template. How about adding content? That’s where Joomla fails in usability for your average Joe Shmoe. In CMSMS you have a hierarchical list of pages, so basically a menu tree right away, where as in Joomla every page is a news article belonging to a section and you also have to create menus separately by hand.
Number of available modules definitely brings a big plus to Joomla. Just like with templates, you can choose from a variety of free as well as commercial modules whereas CMSMS module development has been stagnating recently. However, if you ever need to write your own module, writing one for CMSMS will be so much easier because it’s a much smaller and less complicated / confusing system.
Rest of article can be found on Host1Plus Blog
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