Which CMS is better – Drupal, Joomla or other?

I use Mambo revised version. all seo friendly URLs and HTML generated by php script.

We use the Open Source CMS Typo3 and are very satisfied with it. It has many features coming through plug-ins and extension,is SEO-friendly and you can use html without any problem.

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@splinterfree 158681 wrote:

in terms of vulnerability, every system, site or whatever is vulnerable to attack. …

It’s the same as burglary for a brick and mortar property. Some houses are easy to break into, some are difficult. The burglar will choose the easy one unless he has a specific interest in the difficult one.

Some people have a knack for coding and some don’t. I have looked at it, and I could learn it, but I would hate every second of it. That would make it non-productive for me.

I think people best stick with what they are good at and what they can work up a modicum of enthusiasm for.

Really, the work you love and of which are proud is the work in which you will excel.

Re. joomla etc – we found that some parts of a site change frequently and some don’t. So we are mostly using old school HTML and the sections we update a lot we use a php script for. Works well. I think content management needs to be constructed in a way that allows ultimate uniqueness. If all the sites look and feel the same, none will stick in visitor’s memory.

@Engineer 158609 wrote:

I think that any kind of “off the shelf” content management system will eventually be vulnerable to attack. Search for “joomla exploit” or “drupal exploit” — a lot of interesting stuff comes up. If you have time, learn about PHP and MySQL (or the ASP.NET equivalent) and build your own CMS. If you don’t have time, or if you simply aren’t willing to learn how to do it yourself, I would recommend backing up your data on a very regular basis.

i dont program myself but jsut manage content and the likes. i believe that there is no need for my team to reinvent the wheel and just use whats already available to build a website (sites like drupal or joomla). learning php for me would be a waste of time as i prefer to specialize on other things, while someone else does the actual coding.

in terms of vulnerability, every system, site or whatever is vulnerable to attack. if someone wants to, they’ll crack it and there is nothing you can do about it. cheers for the “exploit” suggestions though…

and yes :3eyes:, we do always run a backup of our sites. the risk is too high to lose all data even if we are not using CMSs…

I personally like wordpress although its a blog software I find with the plugins and easy editing it works great.

I found Joomla much more userfriendly, but I haven’t got that much experience…

I think that any kind of “off the shelf” content management system will eventually be vulnerable to attack. Search for “joomla exploit” or “drupal exploit” — a lot of interesting stuff comes up. If you have time, learn about PHP and MySQL (or the ASP.NET equivalent) and build your own CMS. If you don’t have time, or if you simply aren’t willing to learn how to do it yourself, I would recommend backing up your data on a very regular basis.

Hmm. I always wondered how people who can’t code at all build websites. I mean, you can start with CMS but by default they’re ugly and clunky.

So far I’ve installed and played with PHP-Nuke (my linked website, which was by accident.. never ever use that CMS), Joomla, Drupal and WordPress. I believe that all around, WordPress is the best of the lot in terms of ease of use and customization. I haven’t used it much yet since I just recently bought a website using it, but its downside seems to be pretty average (subpar even) SEO.

Doesn’t compare with building your own from scratch. In one of the websites I built, I managed to get high search rankings very quickly with near perfect SEO.

But admittedly, I couldn’t code an admin CMS if my life depended on it, which is required for any large sized websites.

So I believe that the best trade-off if you can code like me (relatively simple php) is taking WordPress and customizing it. Or, which is more ambitious, I’ve seen someone build a complete, extremely nice website by editing vBulletin!

By customizing one of those CMS, you get the CMS aspect (easy to add articles and news) while getting rid of the limitations.

I looked a bit into Typo3 and it looks interesting, but all of the listed “example” websites looks pretty basic and corporate (simple pages with images and a little text).

Do any of you have a well designed and elaborate Typo3 website to show?

Thanks

Building your own CMS is not cool unless you are as big as http://www.covers.com, http://www.casinomeister.com, etc… where you have the time, money and need for it to warrant hiring a programmer to do it for you. If you did hire a programmer you are putting yourself at risk that the programmer does things their way and if they jump ship you are left with a system that isn’t very useful and you put yourself at mercy to the programmer. I have seen programmers before who know the person who requested the software can’t afford to back out of the deal where the programmer would magically produce problems that would cost more money or give them an unfinished product that required more money to finish.

I am more familiar with Joomla but I hear Drupal is good too, just depends on your needs. Regarding security issues I wouldn’t let this get in the way of doing what you want to do, but be aware of it. I would recommend you find a php programmer whom you can hire from time to time to help with security patches and such.

John