When and Why Joomla or Drupal??

Joomla vs Drupal which way to go??


Lots of emerging communities of Drupal and Joomla are rocking the social media network. The community members are increasing every day. Don’t get overwhelmed which to choose; first you need to keep your vision clear, look for your general and specific requirements, and move ahead keeping in view that success and quality is the bottom line of the website development. You need to be very focused on your goal and objectives should be very transparent. I have done lots of research on internet and played putting combination of keywords, key phrases in the google search, delved into the matter which to choose, also read forums, blogs and discovered few important facts, which I am going to discuss in my post.

Joomla has proved to be the best to work providing rich and colorful templates, customization option, extensions and components available really boost your website functionalities but these are true for web designers; web developers are not so happy working with Joomla; Drupal is preferable for web developers.

Drupal provide flexibility to SEO executives as it is more search engine friendly, because it provides SEO friendly URL re-write module. Drupal’s feature to install several sites with one set up in comparison to Joomla one set up for one site installation and multiple set up for multiple site installation is really tedious and you need to update components one by one. Also the same login detail can be used for different sites in Drupal. Granting access permission on Drupal is fine tuned. Distributed network approach of Drupal makes is best CMS for online community development. Drupal supports ensemble of inbound feeds, supports blogging, non-exclusive tagging, ubiquitous outbound RSS feeds. Drupal has developed distributed community features for community networking, content creation and distribution.

When Joomla?? If the user is non-technical Joomla is better choice, no need to have earlier knowledge of the tools. Easy installation and set using mouse can be done. If you are least bothered about Joomla users of your website and access permission is not at highest priority, Joomla is best. Again, if you do not need SEO out of box, Joomla is preferred.

Drupal Solutions India

Drupal was a bulletin board system that became an open source CMS in 2001. Drupal is a modular open source CMS written using a programming language PHP. It is environment friendly and is well off with all operating systems; runs well with both the servers (Apache, IIS); MySQL database is used for storing the content. Complete content manipulation is in your hand. The basic functionalities available in default configuration are of great help to developers, designers; they can extend the functionalities using plug-ins. It provides a modular approach for developing your website, you can add, edit, and delete content. Content may be a computer file or other audio/video files, web content or an electronic document that can be managed easily by the owner himself/herself – no need to hire a technical person if you have the basic knowledge, a user friendly interface.

Drupal originated from a Dutch word ‘druppel’ which means a drop. Offshore Drupal development and outsourcing of these services have provided bigger opportunities for Drupal developers to outsource their work to global IT players. Also, open source nature of the software makes it user-friendly. Content can be customized as per individual need. Drupal kernel callbacks allow modules to insert functions into Drupal’s path of execution. Drupal 5.3 was released on 17th Oct 2007 and a month ago in November beta version 6.0 was released with featured freeze feature.

The modular approach provides Drupal with greater flexibility. It provides with the ability to categorize content, post and review comments, custom search is also provide, build multi-level menus, can actively participate in forums, blogs, RSS feeds, grant user access and access control, caste polls, add new content, updated existing ones, can re-write search-engine friendly URLs, generate reports.

Drupal community has contributed by providing many free modules that can be shared among the Drupal and other users of the community. Few successfully developed and most widely used modules include workflow features, organic groups, Google sitemap, Integration with CVS, e-commerce, photo galleries, and mailing list management. Icreon Open Source Development is a leading Drupal Consultant and provider of Drupal solutions in India and to offshore clients too.

Drupal Solution Provider

Enjoy the power of Drupal at WWW level by using Drupal solution for application development, ecommerce stores and portals.
Drupal is an open source framework or a platform and content management system for developing dynamic websites with plethora of features.

Drupal solution providers plan, implement, co-ordinate, provide consulting, training and support for maintenance of all interlinked segments for best result. Performance tuning, optimization, upgrade and migration, plug-ins development, websites hosting services using Drupal CMS, module development, customized groupware development solution, workflow management solutions, document management system development, are other services that a Drupal service provider in general assures to provide.

Drupal important features are: wide range of templates available to choose from, then after finalizing the design template you can customize the template and change the look and feel of the website. Design integration, configuration and module installation are another important feature of Drupal. User can customize the website according to client’s requirement and can add and modify contents. This helps to increase productivity, improve operational efficiency, and minimize risk.

If you desire to develop a dynamic, liscense free website at minimal investment and that too easily manageable then Drupal is the best solution. If you wish to change the look of your static website to an interactive website Drupal provides easy migration services; you can also customize the existing Drupal by improving its functionalities by incorporating plug-in. For any kind of information on Open source technologies, Drupal consulting please visit our website Open Source Development.