mrp2049
Senior Member
Alright lets get into this...
Wordpress can be great, but it can also be a nightmare! Some of the plugins are amazing! Tubepress and gigpress have actually saved days of my life more than once recently. SEO is also incredible. But that doesn't change the fact that it is a Blogging platform that has been forced into a full CMS. Building a theme from scratch can be a nightmare.
Joomla...oh how I hate Joomla! So rigidly annoying and generally stupid! I've wasted enough of my life trying to build and add stuff to a joomla site, I could have built a new site in the time it took!
Concrete5, I used to love it, but a recent upgrade has taken some of the shine of it recently. Still it is an easy CMS to theme up and it is also super easy for clients to manage if done right. They can change it (sort of) inline, click edit on an area, bang, they are editting the content of that area.
Drupal...oh drupal...probably my favourite of them all. So gloriously powerful, so editable, so intuitive....but I am a geeky web developer, give it to a limited knowledge client, be ready for the never ending phone calls.
Wordpress can be great, but it can also be a nightmare! Some of the plugins are amazing! Tubepress and gigpress have actually saved days of my life more than once recently. SEO is also incredible. But that doesn't change the fact that it is a Blogging platform that has been forced into a full CMS. Building a theme from scratch can be a nightmare.
Joomla...oh how I hate Joomla! So rigidly annoying and generally stupid! I've wasted enough of my life trying to build and add stuff to a joomla site, I could have built a new site in the time it took!
Concrete5, I used to love it, but a recent upgrade has taken some of the shine of it recently. Still it is an easy CMS to theme up and it is also super easy for clients to manage if done right. They can change it (sort of) inline, click edit on an area, bang, they are editting the content of that area.
Drupal...oh drupal...probably my favourite of them all. So gloriously powerful, so editable, so intuitive....but I am a geeky web developer, give it to a limited knowledge client, be ready for the never ending phone calls.
I'm always wary of using something that everyone and their dog uses, for no other reason than that. I used Joomla a year or so ago, not particularly relevant but I didn't find it particularly intuitive then, don't know if it has changed much since.