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Joomla. good or bad?

by killua
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Hi everyone!

I am wondering if Joomla CMS is good or not?

or is there better CMS out there?

#bad #cms #good #joomla
  • Profile picture of the author Hendry Lee
    I answer yes, because obviously Joomla is useful if you know how to use it.

    I'm a Drupal fan, so yes there is a better CMS.

    Drupal recently just won (again) the best CMS award by Packt too.
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  • Profile picture of the author wayfarer
    I agree, Drupal beats Joomla hand over fist. It has a better community, is more developer friendly, and the templates created for it are generally of higher quality.
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  • Profile picture of the author killua
    hmm.. so drupal is better in every aspects over joomla?
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  • Profile picture of the author wayfarer
    Drupal is more powerful, has more tools, and more add-ons. Joomla might be a bit easier to learn, however. I'm not saying Joomla is bad, just that I think Drupal is better.
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  • Profile picture of the author Hendry Lee
    wayfarer is spot on.

    There is a slightly steeper learning curve with Drupal. If you are ready for it, you will have a powerful content management system in your hands.
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  • Profile picture of the author tdpubs
    Joomla! has a learning curve for my clients. I distribute a few how-to-videos to help them along. I use it as my favorite CMS, but I tend to do my own sites in manual PHP pages these days.
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  • Profile picture of the author designbuyers2007
    Joomla is good but need good server to handle it.
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  • Profile picture of the author Aaron H
    I'd say it's good but it still needs a robots.txt file chucking in with a site to control a couple of its duplicate content issues.
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  • Profile picture of the author killua
    designbuyers2007, why does it need a good server?

    Aaron H, what is robots.txt file? Maybe you may want to briefly explain to me?

    Thanks! =)
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  • Profile picture of the author Hendry Lee
    Joomla demands good server specification, I think that's what he's trying to say. In shared hosting, you may risk hogging the resources if you don't know how to optimize your installation.

    I run Drupal on a VPS with 512MB memory without any problem, and it is lightning fast.

    Btw, you may want to check the benchmark for those two CMS in Google. One of them would be

    Drupal vs Joomla: performance | Dries Buytaert

    You mileage may vary, but Buytaert is Drupal's project lead.
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  • Profile picture of the author bekkinz
    yeah, loading time is an issue if your server isn't the best. but joomla has some great features
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  • Profile picture of the author stoica
    I really like joomla it's very easy to use and to install, you should try Drupal and then Joomla and see yourself.
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  • Profile picture of the author Richardo
    Drupal Powerful templating system. Any XHTML or CSS template can be easily converted to Drupal.
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  • Profile picture of the author ChristianM
    Personally prefer Drupal and actually find it easier to use. Never did get into joomla
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