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CMS (Content Management System)

The Basics of Drupal v. Joomla, Part 3: Themes and Templates

Posted by laryn on Sep 21, 2009

In the "old days" of web development, you had separate files for each page on your website which contained a variety of information -- the design of the site, a menu system, as well as the content of the particular page. As the web has evolved, we've begun to try to keep some of these things separate (you may have heard discussions about separating presentation and content). Since most sites are now driven by some kind of a database, the content of each page doesn't have to be kept in a separate file.

The Basics of Drupal v. Joomla, Part 2: Modules v. Extensions

Posted by cedc on Jul 30, 2009

This is the second in our series comparing the basics of Drupal and Joomla. As mentioned, both Drupal and Joomla have active communities that support the projects and produce add-ons which integrate with them for added functionality. In Drupal, these are called "modules" and in Joomla they are called "extensions" (a term which encompasses three sub-types: components, modules and plugins).

The Basics of Drupal v. Joomla, Part 1: Introduction

Posted by laryn on Jul 20, 2009

As we usually tell our non-profit partners, both Drupal and Joomla have their pluses and minuses. We recommend each of them for particular types of websites and for particular functional and content-related requirements. That said, we thought it might be worthwhile to start a new series on our blog describing some of the parallels between them as well as highlighting in more depth some of the differences.

Comparison report: Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal and Plone (by Idealware)

Posted by laryn on Apr 6, 2009

If you're considering a site revision or complete site redo, you may be interested in this recent report by Idealware, comparing four major CMS systems: Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal and Plone. (We implement sites in Joomla and Drupal at present, depending on the functional requirements of the site at hand).

What is a 'content management system?'

Posted by laryn on Jan 12, 2009

Most of the sites we develop are built under an open-source content management system (CMS) after they've been designed. We use either Drupal or Joomla! depending on the site requirements, since they are both suited to particular types of sites. Here are a few benefits that they both offer, in laypeople's terms: