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Open Source Usability — Joomla! Vs. WordPress
An anonymous reader writes "PlayingWithWire profiles two open source tools for Web development, comparing Joomla! and WordPress through the lens of usability. The article has apparently upset a few people at the Joomla! forum, but it does bring up a good point. Many open source projects are developed by engineers for engineers — should they focus more on usability? PlayingWithWire makes a bold analogy: 'If Joomla! is Linux, then WordPress is Mac OS X. WordPress might offer only 90% of the features of Joomla!, but in most cases WordPress is both easier to use and faster to get up and running.'" The article repeatedly stresses that blogging platform WordPress and CMS harness Joomla! occupy different levels of the content hierarchy. How fair is it to twit Joomla! on usability?
I don't know if it's still entirely free, but PHPNuke was always relatively simple to set up and always seemed to have the modules I wanted to do what I needed. Granted, this was before "blogging" but as editors we could always post entries (we used it for technology news, writing a quick summary and then posting a link to the story). So it's not apples to apples, but it was a CMS solution and would seem to be at least partly an alternative for either of the mentioned apps.
Bark less. Wag more.
And fucks the internet up.
Public relations, Joomla style. I rest my case.
Idiot. Slashdot style. I rest my case.
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