Drupal, Joomla, Wordpress Comparison
One of the better comparisons of the features and capabilities of Drupal, Joomla! and Wordpress I've run across...
"A comparison of the capabilities and features of the latest releases (as of September 2008) of Joomla 1.5, Drupal 6, and Wordpress 2 with respect to 1) functionality -- multi-user publishing, layout and design, search engine optimization (SEO), mobile device support, and internationalization/localization; 2) extensibility -- the general climate and quality of third-party extension development for each platform; 3) support; 4) specific kinds of websites -- media/publishing sites, community/social sites, eCommerce sites..."
About this CMS Enthusiast
Harry has been knocking around the IT industry since the days of punched cards and magnetic tapes. He has spent most of his career as a network engineer; however, he has also dabbled in software development, and, as a result is quite adept at development in a number of obsolete programming languages.
In the CMS world, he is currently an equal opportunity user of Drupal, Joomla! and Wordpress. In the real world, he lives with his wife and two terrible terriers about 20 miles west of Washington, DC.
Harry is known on Twitter as @harryb_hrpr and also maintains a personal web site at www.hrpr.com.
Comments
#1 Newlocalmedia.com
That link leads to a website called newlocalmedia. This seems to host full version of the story. However it blocks access to browsers below IE7.
Newsflash - we live in a corporate world. Nice and all as IE7+ may be not everyone gets to choose their browser. Some folks have to wait for IT dept rollouts.
Blocking content to those folk is a short sighted strategy. I can't read the article. I'm going to go somewhere else. Pity cos I was interested.
#2 Old Unreliable IE6
I have to agree that it is ironic and it should be recognized that a third of IE users are still using IE 6. For this site, I do my best to make the pages as compatible as I can for all browsers.
Having said that, I personally have little respect for IT departments of companies that still have not moved to newer browsers. In the past, IT departments said it was an issue of time, money, and compatibility. However, IT departments have had more than enough to upgrade from this eight year old dinosaur which even Microsoft recommends for security reasons that users make the upgrade.
Perhaps, if your company still has the need to use IE6 for internal applications they should also consider adding on an alternative browser for better designed sites. Let's face it, we live in a world that is no longer geared toward designing pages as if it was the 2001.