The Debate

One of the big debates lately regarding comparisons with Joomla! CMS, Drupal and WordPress is; Which works best for Government web sites? Well there is not really a definitive answer since each of these tools has their place and you should carefully consider the dynamics of the client and use of the system to determine this. However, since we have worked with all three systems and overwhelmingly prefer Joomla! as the solution we most often recommend to our customers, I wanted to share a list of Governments around the world that are committed to using the Joomla! CMS solution. http://docs.joomla.org/Government_Websites_Using_Joomla

This list is still incomplete since it is rather hard to track but it does give a pretty good slice of types of Government organizations using Joomla right now all around the world and I think the pendulum is leaning very heavy towards Joomla as a solution that Government agencies can use with the greatest easy and confidence. With over 7000+ extensions, a global development community and an open source architecture the flexibility and capabilities are simply unmatched.

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Joomla! CMS is the best platform for building your business online!

If you are building a web site for your business it is easy to get excited about all the things that Joomla! CMS can do with its 7000 plus extensions and long list of core features built in. Joomla! CMS is an open source code base offered as a FREE download and relatively easy to install on any web server. There is one of the largest collections of world-class design templates available to build from and quickly brand to your specifications. Since Joomla! CMS is easy to use and offers flexibility to expand over time it is no wonder for the growing popularity of this robust content management system. According to CMS crawler, Joomla! CMS is the top web publishing tool (CMS) in Europe and captures over 2.6 percent of all websites worldwide (http://cmscrawler.com/cmsinfo?cms=Joomla!). Joomla’s only other close contender is Wordpress which has nowhere near the options for practical business use cases.

Sounds incredible! So where do I get started?

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I have watched my son’s fascination with Lego’s grow over the past year and I remember back when I was a kid and how much I loved them too (I confess I still enjoy helping my son). Back then we only had a few types of Lego’s but managed to build many things that let our imaginations wonder. Today they have much more refined building blocks and a much more sophisticated collection of worlds you can explore. They even have digital games and animated films etc. around this whole culture of building blocks. Essentially it has grown into a whole new dimension much like technology has evolved.

When I found Joomla CMS, 5+ years ago they were cutting a new pathway that started a global initiative unmatched in the current webosphere. A collaborative open source culture has emerged with Joomla! CMS now used on over 2.6% of all web sites on the internet. Joomla CMS has evolved as a platform and now has well over 7000 extensions  or what I refer to as “building blocks” for creating just about anything you can imagine for the web.  One of the great things I like about Joomla is that it is actually as fun as Lego’s not only for geeks like me that like to build cool stuff and integrate interactive webs of passing and associating data relationships but it is easy to understand and use for the non technical users as well.

I remember in the Joomla 1.0 days there were fewer components and goodies and they were not as refined but since Joomla 1.5 this has grown to be a powerful collection of tools on top of a stable and secure environment (When you keep up with your upgrades). With Joomla 1.6 this promises to only get better in so many ways. When Joomla CMS is compared to Drupal, Wordpress and other CMS systems you cannot match the depth of the community supporting Joomla! CMS nor the magnitude of building blocks and template designs available for this exciting technology platform.

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Measure twice and cut once!

This is good advice for building a Joomla Portal especially when comparing components.

Comparing Joomla! CMS extensions can be a real challenge and very time consuming but it is an essential step in the development process. You are going to want to make sure you choose the right components for the right job and make sure that they will be easy to support for the long haul. If you do not this can drive your (or your clients) support costs through the roof and leave you and your customers very frustrated.

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One of the most powerful and popular capabilities of a Joomla website is the ability to deliver robust ecommerce solutions. While there are a growing number of options for ecommerce in Joomla, the pioneer and still the most popular shopping cart option is the Virtuemart shopping cart extension. It has been exciting to watch how a great basket of ideas has grown to become one of the most popular engines for ecommerce on the web.

Small businesses like it because it is FREE to download, it is easy to implement and maintain and it is scalable to meet the needs of their business as it grows. Shoppers like it because it looks great, is intuitive to use and is secure for handling their transactions. Developers like it because there are many extensions, accounting systems integrations and it is open source code so they can deliver real world business results and be the hero. Yippie everybody wins!

Let’s start with a quick overview of the core features and then I will get to some real exciting stuff that I like about this solution.

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