These are the slides from my presentation in the "Experiences of CMS Selection" session at the MCN 2011 conference in Atlanta, GA

1. Experiences of CMS Selection
Christopher Borkowski
Lead Developer – Balboa Park Online Collaborative
Thursday November 17, 2011
MCN Conference
Atlanta, Ga.

2. 71.5% of websites use a CMS.
In use / Market Share
Wordpress - 15% / 53 %
Joomla! - 2.9 % /9.5 %
Drupal - 1.8 % / 6.4 %
http://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/content_management/all

3. Get something that is easy to use,
powerful, and something your staff
likes
Who should be involved in the selection process:
1) Web Developers
2) IT Staff
3) Editorial/Web Master/Editor
4) Graphic/Design/Photography
5) Marketing/PR
6) Membership/Visitor Services
7) Curatorial
8) Library

4. Joomla! vs. Drupal – Two Examples
Joomla 1.5 Drupal 6.19
http://guggenheim.org http://balboapark.org

5. Joomla! vs. Drupal – Two Examples
Joomla 1.5 Drupal 6.19
http://guggenheim.org http://balboapark.org
Site Design : Pentagram Site Design : Baily Gardner
Development Team (20) – ID Society, Development Team (3) – BPOC – Bill
SRGM, Discouri Desing, Ex Corp Bostick, CB, Linda West
2 year implementation/roll out & on 3.5 month implementation/roll out &
going on going
Hosting: Rackspace VMWare & SRGM Hosting: ASW Amazon /S3
LAMP – RHEL 5/ Cent OS /Win2k LAMP – Fedora 14
Google Mini Appliance
Apache SOLR Search Server
SVN version contoll
SVN Version Controll
1 Staging & 4 sandboxes
1 staging (cal) 3 sandboxes

6. Joomla! vs. Drupal – Two Examples
Joomla 1.5 Drupal 6.19
http://guggenheim.org http://balboapark.org
Reason for selection – Key Selling points
• Selection by committee – Best Unilateral – Other
RFP – IT dept recomendations Organizations - Service
• Past Experience & Success. Software – Babble, CCK &
• Elegant – MVC (Model, View Views
Control – design patter) Rapid Development
• Robust Software & Community Efficient and Small platform
• Stable Platform

7. Joomla! vs. Drupal – Two Examples
Joomla 1.5 Drupal 6.19
http://guggenheim.org http://balboapark.org
Major Features
• TMS / E-museum – Presentation BP CAL – aggregated master
Layer Component. calendar module -
• EAD Finding Aids Presentation Apache SOLR – faceted search
Component. OpenX add server
• Call Out Component
RSS feed – agregated content
• Sketchup / Design it Component
to Iphone App & Kisoks
• Ez-Video Gallery Component
• Arts Curriculum Component