Posts tagged: Content Management System

Joomla on windows?

February 4, 2012, by No comments yet

Joomla on windows platform?  YES! You can now install your favorite CMS on your window based computer, Here is the details;

Install Joomla! for Windows

Joomla! is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla! the most popular Web site software available. Joomla! also runs great on the Microsoft Web Platform. Microsoft is teaming up with the Joomla! community to make using Joomla! on Windows even easier and Microsoft along with its hosting partners is working to make hosting Joomla! on Windows a great choice for everyone.

The Microsoft Web Platform Installer will download any
pre-requisites and then install WebMatrix and Joomla!
for you. Just click Install and we’ll handle the rest.

 

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Microsoft WebMatrix makes it easy for anyone to create a Joomla! site. Joomla! available from the Web Application Gallery is fully tested to run on WebMatrix. Customize your site easily and then publish it on the internet from a wide choice of hosting service providers.

Create Customize Publish
  • WebMatrix makes creating a Joomla! site easy. WebMatrix will download, install and configure the latest version of Joomla! for you automatically.
  • WebMatrix provides everything you need including the web server, MySQL, and PHP. It also includes our URL Rewrite module for “Pretty Permalinks” in Joomla! and WinCache to ensure your Joomla! site runs fast on Windows.
  • By using the same stack on your development desktop that you’ll use on the server that hosts your clients’ site, the process of going live is painless and worry free.
  • WebMatrix lets you customize your Joomla! site. The lightweight editor supports HTML, CSS and PHP and makes you more productive with features such as color coding and tag completion.
  • WebMatrix provides editing capabilities for your SQL Server database allowing you to modify your schema or edit data directly if needed.
  • WebMatrix provides a Search Engine Optimization (SEO) report that crawls your local site. WebMatrix and gives you specific feedback to ensure your site is easily indexed by all the major search engines.
  • WebMatrix makes it easy to publish your site to a hosted server. WebMatrix supports the standard FTP and Secure FTP protocols as well as Microsoft’s WebDeploy protocol.
  • WebDeploy makes publishing even easier by automatically configuring your server first as well as smartly deploying only the files that have changed for any updates. WebDeploy can even synch your development machine with your live site.
  • Best of all WebMatrix includes a Hosting Gallery with great offers for hosting on Windows. Get the best deals for hosting Joomla! on Windows right inside WebMatrix itself.

 

New to Joomla!?

Microsoft and the Joomla! community are teaming up to provide definitive and deep guidance on configuration and tuning of Joomla! on the Microsoft Web Platform. If you are looking for detailed technical information for Joomla! and IIS, visit the Joomla! & IIS page on Joomla! Docs. If you have questions on running Joomla! on Windows and IIS visit the Joomla! on IIS Forums

 

New to PHP on Windows and IIS?

There is a wealth of information for learning more about running Joomla! or any PHP-based website on the Microsoft Web Platform including features and information on FastCGI, WinCache, PHP Manager and running PHP applications in our cloud platform, Azure. Plus links to detailed articles for users who want to get the ultimate performance from their Joomla! sites on Windows. Visit our PHP on Windows page to learn more.

Have questions on WebMatrix or need assistance?

If you have questions on running Joomla! with WebMatrix or are having trouble visit the WebMatrix Forums and connect directly with the community of users using WebMatrix and the Microsoft engineers who created it. We’re always on and ready to help.

Source: Joomla.org

WordPress vs Joomla vs Drupal. What CMS (Content Management System) is Best for you?

August 21, 2011, by No comments yet

When we talk about CMS ( Content management System ), the first thing that pops up in people’s minds are Drupal, Joomla, andWordPress. These three big names are the most well know CMS out there, but which one is right for you? In this article, we compare each CMS, so you can decide on the one that fits your purposes.

When it comes to choosing between Joomla, Drupal and WordPress, there are not many people who are able to make up their minds entirely; as all three are great open source applications and they are to some extent similar in their basic features.

In the end, its up to you

It’s difficult to recommend on CMS over the others without knowing what you plan to do with it. So basically, here’s a very basic outline of what each should be used for. This by no means defines that boundaries of what each CMS can do.

Blogging:
For everyday blogging, I’d say WordPress is the right choice. It’s very simple to use, and requires little configuration.
Communities:
To start a community with multiple users, I’d recommend Drupal and Joomla. Both are built with the idea of multiple users in mind, so you’ll have very nice groundwork for setting up a community.



For Developers:
Drupal has a very extensive API and is well documented. It’s very suitable for the more developer oriented out there.
Most User Friendly:
Out of all three, I’d have to say WordPress is the most easy to use. It’s very user friendly and has a multitude of tutorials and FAQ’s out there.
E-Commence:
If you’re looking to start a online store, I’d recommend using Joomla and Drupal. While both do not function as a store out of the box, with a few modules/plugins, it can become a fully functioning, very flexible, online store.

From http://designmess.com/ here is difference:
WordPress

WordPress is an excellent CMS when it comes to blogging and publishing your brain-work and thoughts. WordPress is currently being used by 202 million websites. This particular CMS is commonly used as a basic content management system. It has many features such as widgets which can be arranged without editing the HTML, Search engine friendly, multiple categories to a blog post can be created and allows tagging of blog posts and articles.

WordPress is developed and predefined as a blog so its set up is not a very hectic process. WordPress also has multiple Blogging options or profiles, in built Comments and Pinging service etc. Integrated with all these supportive features WordPress is not considered as a Developer friendly CMS and this CMS might bring more bugs with its new upgrades but the best part about WordPress is that it is easy to use and mostly people get a hang of it in no time.
Joomla

Joomla CoFounder Brian Teeman
Joomla provides a platform to publish the content on World Wide Web. It’s basic features are:

1. Caching
2. RSS feeds
3. Printable web pages
4. News flashes
5. Blogs Polls
6. Search
7. Language internationalization support

Joomla is Designer and Developer friendly as it offers a wider platform for developers to customize and introduce new features in the system and the capability to improve the look and feel of the website is surely widely accepted by designers all across. Joomla is capable enough to handle a vast community and has been in proper use since past 2-3 years.

As compared to WordPress and Drupal, Joomla still needs to do improvisation in lots of areas. Joomla needs to steal some of the User Friendliness from WordPress and flexibility from Drupal. Joomla is not XHTML Complaint and lacks the option to create multi-sites.
Drupal

Drupal Founder Dries Buytaert
Drupal is used as a back-end system for different types of websites. It can be used for a small FAQ site or may be a large corporate website. Drupal has the ability to incorporate features like:-

1. Registering and Maintaining user accounts
2. Creating and Handling menus
3. RSS feeds
4. Customization of a layout
5. Internet Forum
6. Single or multi User blog
7. Powerful template system

Drupal is every developers heaven as it requires plenty of hard code to be done and a nightmare for designers offering a very few options to improve the look n feel of a Drupal website. Drupal is also not a very user friendly CMS. Websites like MTV UK, BBC, the Onion, Greenpeace UK etc use Drupal.

Versatility

WordPress makes some effort to help you build the site you want, but Joomla is the clear winner here.

WordPress is built for bloggers, featuring comments, tagging, and virtually everything else your blog needs out of the box. Simple. Easy. Straightforward.

Joomla is the better choice if your site is almost anything but a blog. The tough learning curve is partly a function of the advanced features that Joomla provides. You’ll have to spend some more time with it, and Joomla is obsessed with goofy looking contact forms and FAQ pages, but your non-blogging site will thank you.

When it comes to choosing between Joomla, Drupal and WordPress, there are not many people who are able to make up their minds entirely; as all three are great open source applications and they are to some extent similar in their basic features.

However, there are definitely some differences as far as strong and negative points are concerned. One particular application cannot be termed fit for all uses. If we have a look at these applications one by one, we would probably be able to determine as to how each of these applications differ from one another.
What’s good and bad about Joomla?


Joomla – Positives

Joomla is a perfect application if you are looking for a powerful content management system. Joomla is not very complicated as far as the usage is concerned and moreover the installation of the script is fairly easy as well. As far as the administration is concerned, it is very graphical and intuitive. Moreover, the theme selection is pretty impressive as well. If you are looking for a heavyweight general CMS system, then Joomla is the right application for you.

Joomla – Negatives

The negative aspects of Joomla are that the Web 2.0 implementation is pretty archaic and the community focus is less than perfect, meaning updates can be long in development. Some of the more general technical problems are no permissions control, lack of decent scalability, and no multisite options. The categorizing options are very few and the SSL implementation requires further work. Joomla needs SEO and SEF extensions and there are some security risks involved in this if the SEO rules change quite often. The speed of the application is not really a big concern, although it should be noted that Joomla is the slowest of the three applications.

* Related Ref: Best Joomla Hosting.
What’s good and bad about Drupal?

Drupal – Positives

Drupal is wonderful as far as blogging requirements are concerned and moreover the installation is pretty simple as well and one need not be a technical wizard to get things functioning. The SEO capabilities of the application are quite frankly awesome and those who require lots of traffic for their websites could be well off if they use this application. The best part about Drupal is the web 2.0 pure version, SSL that comes as a built in feature, better scalability and permissions which are quite granular.

Drupal – Negatives

The only problem or the only negative with Drupal is the lack of themes. When you compare the themes of Drupal with the other systems, it has lot of catching up to do.


* Related Ref: Best Drupal Hosting.
What’s good about WordPress?

WordPress– Positives

WordPress is an application or system which is well-suited for creating a blog, coupled with different themes and plugins to extend functionality. Like the other two systems, WordPress is also very easy to use and install. Almost everyone will be able to install WordPress easily, and moreover the administration of the application is fairly simple as well. If you compare WordPress with Drupal or Joomla for that matter, the themes are great and the selection of available themes is wide. The SEO potential is good as well. The content upon a WordPresssite have unique pages which are SEO friendly with configurable title and URL as well. If one goes by what the users of this system have to say, then WordPress could be one of the best content management systems that are available for blogging. It has web 2.0 along with permissions control and is entirely expandable.

WordPress – Negatives

The downside as far as WordPress is concerned is that it does not have multi-site and SSL features as standard. Moreover, the scalability is pretty limited as well.

From : http://www.topwebhostreview.net/blog/featured/joomla-vs-drupal-vs-wordpress/

Joomla was created from the ground up as a CMS, while Wordpres was designed as a publishing platform that has developed gradually into a CMS, offering each unique capabilities.
Both platforms work well for managing a website, WordPress is the best option for small to medium business and Joomla is fantastic for a website that requires multiple user privileges or custom database work.