January 19, 2008
Drupal vs Joomla
I’ve had conversations a few times in the last few months about open source content management systems. The top ones people usually look at at Wordpress, Joomla and Drupal. Wordpress is great – this blog is powered off Wordpress and some bigger sites run off the platform – although as a development platform I’ve moved away from it. I’ve developed a number of sites using Joomla and thoroughly enjoyed using it, as long as nothing too complex was attempted. There’s even a Joomla South Africa community! It’s easy to install and has a lot of add-on components, so lots of people use it. I’ve moved away from Joomla too now in favour of a more powerful and flexible system: drupal.
mydrupal.com has a great overview of drupal vs joomla.
Roger Saner is a web platform developer (using 
