On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 3:03 PM, gajendra khanna <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi Debasish > > I'm planning to create a website and confused between joomla or drupal > > I knnow PHP but none of those. Please suggest > > > I was faced with a similar dilemma some years ago. all CMS are content > management systems. You can probably make most of the common websites > in any of the CMS available. My concept has always been DIY (do it > yourself) and decide. I did the same at that time. > There is this website www.opensourcecms.com which provides demos of > various CMS to try out which refresh themselves periodically. > I have used both joomla and wordpress for some sites. They're all > wonderful to use as is drupal with some learning curve. I have found > the IRC channels for these also quite supportive. Plugin wise I have > seen that joomla has very good support. There is a plugin for almost > everything and is easy to use if the site is going to be managed by a > non-technical/lazy person. There is lots of documentation, books etc > available for the leading CMSs. > Suggest sitting a weekend with these different options on the site, > choose demos of any of the nearly 141 CMS on the site and see which > one you like the most. ALL can be used to make sites. choose what you > like. period. > Gajendra > > I think that has to be the best reply. Thanks Gajendra! I already fiddled with Wordpress for sometime and now after fiddling with drupal and joomla, I find joomla is very similar to wordpress with added features. As I am more skilled in java based technologies (JSP, Servlet etc.), I think joomla is good for me. I will check out the website you suggested before taking a final decision. -- Debasish Ray Chawdhuri http://www.geekyarticles.com/ [A collection of advanced articles on java] -- Mailing list guidelines and other related articles: http://lug-iitd.org/Footer
