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In the interest of trying to add some minor relevance to my blog posts (this is supposed to be a Web Dev blog as well as a Personal Blog…..we’ll debate the intelligence of this choice some other time), I’ve decided to create a few posts on the pros and cons of two amazing Open Source CMS/Blogging applications: Wordpress and Joomla.

This first post will be basically an introduction to my criteria and my experiential background that is leading me to write these posts…..

First, why I’m talking about these two apps:

I really want to refine the process and time it takes for me to roll out client sites. My time is a commodity and I can’t afford to spend every hour I’m not at my day job implementing sites for my “Wired Serf” Clients. That being said, I’m currently in the process of doing re-designs for two clients and I’ve chosen to implement one of them with Joomla and the other with WordPress. Conveniently, both sites are both relatively small and my clients flexible enough to allow me to experiment in this way.

So for the last month or so, I’ve been hammering away into the wee hours of the morning (and many hours of my weekends) with both of these applications in a scramble to learn both apps and launch both sites in a timely manner.

My Criteria for Judgement:

Next I need to outline my criteria (loose…likely to be refined) for determining the affectiveness and future Wired Serf - Usability of these two apps. Of course, you have to bear in mind that both of these apps were originally designed to serve different purposes (Wordpress being strictly a CMS for creating Blogs and Joomla a CMS for larger non-blog websites), and it is interesting to see how similar in approach these two apps end up being in the end.

Criteria:

  • Ease of implementation- Templates
  • Ease of implementation - Content
  • Ease of implementation - Plugins/Mambots etc.
  • SEO compliance
  • Usability
  • User Access Control
  • Speed of App - Front and Back End

My next post on this topic will start the comparison and grading process…..let the sweating begin Joomla and Wordpress….

Realistically though, there are likely going to be a whole bunch of Trip posts before I get back to this one…..Keeping in line with my habit of posting personal stuff way more than Web Dev stuff.