WordPress, Joomla and Drupal have become the main tools of Content Management System (CMS) in recent times. They have helped to develop various kind of websites and made their maintenance and updating much easier than the old, static and HTML based websites. Let us discuss various features of all three of these monsters that have made CMS the God of website development and especially website maintenance world.
WordPress was released back in 2003 by Matt Mullenwegg while Joomla came in 2005. Drupal is surely their front runner as far as launching date goes because it was launched in 2001. Number of times WordPress was downloaded is way more than Joomla and Drupal. As far as cost goes, all three of them are free of cost. Some of the famous websites that utilize these tools include Forbes, CNN and Sony (WordPress). Harvard University and the Hill website use Joomla whereas Linux, White House and Warner Brothers use Drupal to run their websites.
Not only in number of downloads but WordPress also outshines Joomla and Drupal in matter of free plugins and free themes. WordPress is mostly used for blogs, corporate websites and small-medium sized websites. Joomla is utilized mostly for e-commerce and social networking sites. Drupal is used mostly for the purpose of fitting one size for all the possible resolutions.
Now when we look into the performance side of these CMS tools, we find out that WordPress is an easy to install tool whose customizable traits help any website administrator to handle the updating and maintenance with much more ease. As WordPress has millions of users across the globe, it provides you with a community to sort out issues and advise you at times when you find it hard to work with WordPress.
Drupal is technically more advanced as compared to its other two rival CMS. Enhanced performance of Drupal also helps it loads its website more quickly. Joomla is easier for those who are looking to develop their own social networking website or e-commerce based websites. Not much technical expertise is required to run a website with the help of Joomla.
Whitehats professional website developers have expertise of setting up website CMS in any of the preferred tool for their clients. WordPress, Drupal or Joomla, you can rely on our technical geniuses to develop a website with CMS of your choice in line with the plugins and themes that you wanted to use.