Giving an informative comparison between popular open source Content Management System (CMS) - Drupal, Joomla and Wordpress.

1. Comparing
Open Source Content Management Systems
DRUPAL
JOOMLA & WORDPRESS
Presentation By: ADMEC MULTIMEDIA INSTITUTE
www.admecindia.co.in

2. 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?

3. 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. It’s a software tool that is installed
on a server. ”

4. 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

5. 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

6. Brief Info about Popular Open Source CMS
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
Wordpress
It’s 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.
Wordpress is the most
popular and user friendly
open source blogging
system currently
available, having global
and vibrant
user, developer, and
support community

7. Comparison Between Popular
Open Source CMSs

8. Developer and Support
Drupal
Drupal is developed
by Dries Buytarert and
supported by
Acquia(.com)
Joomla
Joomla is developed
by Leadership team
and doesn't have any
support of any big
authority.
Wordpress
Wordpress is
developed by
Mattthew Charles “
Matt” Mullenweg. and
is supported by
Automatic(.com)

9. Maturity
Drupal
The Drupal CMS
solution came into
existence in the year
2001
Joomla
Joomla CMS solution
officially came into
existence in the year
2001 and got split
from Mambo Fork in
the year 2005
Wordpress
A Wordpress CMS
solution came into
existence in the year
2003

10. Abilities
Drupal
High performance (20K
request per second).
This CMS solution was
praised by developers.
Joomla
Good output
(design, printability, fon
t sizing). This CMS
solutions was praised
by designers.
Wordpress
Wordpress has simple
startup. Comprises of
practical CMS, but
growing at a faster rate.
The solution was
praised by beginners

11. Complexity
Drupal
High
Joomla
Medium
Wordpress
Low

12. Plugins Library
Drupal
Low
( Plugins in Drupal are
referred to as “
modules”)
Joomla
Medium
(Plugins in joomla is
reffered to as “
extensions”)
Wordpress
High plugin library

13. Basic Features
Drupal
Drupal is widely used
for creating instant
websites or web
applications with
users, articles, blogs, c
omments, and a
forum. It offers high
scalability , organizes
complex
content, powerful
taxonomy, tag
facility, etc.
Joomla
With Joomla one can
easily create and
manage the contents
of a website.
Specifically designed
to create community
platforms with strong
social networking
sites.
Wordpress
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.

14. Ease of Content Administration
Drupal
Low
Joomla
Moderate
Wordpress
High

15. Appearance of the Website
Drupal
Entirely depends on
the skills of the
developer.
Joomla
Entirely depends on
the skills of the
developer.
Wordpress
Allows creation of
simple and pretty
websites.

16. Usage
Drupal
Joomla
Wordpress
5 lakhs active sites
Unknown number of
sites
25 mm sites, total (12
mm on word
press.com)

17. Website Examples
Drupal
1. Louvre
2. Zynga
3. Hurley Medial
Centre
4. X. Commerce
5. Team Sugar
6. ADI
(www.animationdegr
eeinstitute.com)
Joomla
1. Harvard University
2. IHOP
(Restaurant chain)
3. Outdoor
Photographers
(Magazine)
4. Citibank
(Financial Institute
Intranet)
Wordpress
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
Entyce
Bluelounge
Design the Planet
Harvey Nichols
PlayStation Blog
CNN Political Ticker
NASA Ames
Research Center

18. 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 as1. Type of website you want to build,
2. Resources required (Both technical and
personal) , and
3. Available alternative
Which one to choose???

19. 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

20. 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
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UI is too difficult.
It provides a middle way ground to the designers.
Joomla offers relatively simpler installation and setup than Drupal.
One doesn’t 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

21. 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
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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

22. “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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