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Open Source Usability — Joomla! Vs. WordPress

Posted by kdawson on from the apples-and-orange-trees dept.

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?

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  1. Some people still like G'nR by BadAnalogyGuy · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    There was a time a while back when Axl Rose was such a huge star that even when he bailed out of concert tours at the last minute, people would still line up to buy their latest albums.

    Nowadays he's essentially a parody of the coolness that G'nR once was. His latest outing, Chinese Democracy, is nothing to write home about, unfortunately.

  2. I think tha fundamentally this is a case of by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    poo poooooo pooop ass asss assssssss poooooooop

  3. PHPNuke by ubrgeek · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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.

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  4. Re:in our office... by reashlin · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    And fucks the internet up.

  5. Re:Substancial criticisim please. (+5 Interesting? by Qbertino · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Public relations, Joomla style. I rest my case.

    Idiot. Slashdot style. I rest my case.

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  6. Re:Substancial criticisim please. (+5 Interesting? by Number6.2 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Now all we need to do is wait for one of you to compare the other to Hitler an my Slashdot Experience will be complete!

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