Joomla, Drupal, Wordpress - which?

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I'm about to start a new site that, while new content will be updated daily, I want to give it the feel of a regular "website" and not a blog. Looking for the right CMS to start it up.

I've heard great things about Joomla and that it's easy for newbs. I've also heard great things about Drupal. Wordpress is too "bloggy" as is but perhaps you know of plugins that would improve it's functionality in this regards.

Just looking for some honest reviews to help point me in the right direction.
 


You haven't really given us an idea of what you specifically want. They are all good.

What do you want to do with them is the question.
 
Wordpress. Just get a custom template made that looks more like a website. There are plugins out there for just about anything you'd ever want to do with it.
 
Wordpress is easy to use as a CMS. Wordpress is easy to customize and work with over all.

I just downloaded Joomla, because I want to give it an honest try and I think for some applications it would just work better, but, let me tell you im fucking lost, if your going to dig into the source, its much more complicated than Wordpress, there is nothing easy about making a custom template for Joomla, at least thats how I feel right now, though I havent had much time working with it.

If its a simple site, go with WordPress!!!!!!!!!!!

Its simple, its straight forward and its highly extensible.
 
Which would do best for a "daily videos" type of site? Wordpress maybe? I once tried drupal, it looked good, but how the coding was done I didn't like, everything's procedural, maybe they've changed that now..

Wordpress has a nice admin. You can try out all of these at opensourcecms.com
 
Wordpress is a good CMS for a daily videos site, I personally have to give Humor Software a 2 thumbs up, great to work with and the owner helps a lot with errors and stuff
 
I've used WordPress and like its ease of use.

I just started trying out Joomla, and I've found it confusing and only so-so templates--and most of the better ones are not free.

Anyone know: What is Joomla supposed to be better for, compared to WordPress?

(I was hoping for joomla to have a user portal/home page functionality, where the user can customize what shows up on their page, etc. Maybe drupal, have to try that next.)
 
Joomla was made to be a cms, and can be converted into a blog...

Wordpress was made to be a blog, and was converted into a cms (or can be)...

Drupal I just could never figure out how to skin (and thus gave up on).
 
I'm pretty hardcore about WordPress. I have been experimenting with Joomla for a new site and am kind of lost. Seems like a lot of hassle to change simple things.

Also, one that doesn't get talked about much is Expression Engine. There aren't really themes for it, but if you can build an HTML page, it is really cool. You just build your page and drop in little code snippets for what you want to have happen in your various content areas. You can do just about anything with it. The full version costs money but there is a CORE version that's free. Also, the support and community is really good. pmachine.com.
 
I've used all three fairly extensively:

1. WP is obviously a great blogging software and I agree that it's the easiest to use. If you just want to post content, this is the way to go. The only reason I would use the other two is if you want a community site (other people register, create profiles, etc.). Drupal and Joomla handle this better than WP in my opinion.

2. Joomla is shit. Half the extensions (or whatever they're called) don't work properly and alot of the templates are shit, and alot of the extensions look like shit in certain templates. I made a site with Joomla, got pretty far along, and then scrapped it because I thought it was shit.

3. Drupal is awesome if you know PHP and really have the desire to learn something. If you need to build a community site I would highly recommend learning Drupal's framework over Joomla's. It may be a little more confusing at first, but you'll be happier in the longrun.

The bottomline: if you just want to post content, go with WP. If you want to allow people to register, go with drupal.
 
Wordpress - hands down.

Drupal - gives me feeling that it could be very powerful but could never went beyond basics. The documentation team of drupal make every attempt to prove that they are some PHD shitheads making everything read super complicated.
I use it on two sites and its been in pain in ass

Joomla - I hate its heavy editor.
 
I use drupal on all of my personal and clients sites as well.

I used to work extensively with Wordpress, but drupal is just way more powerful, can do more out of the box, very easy to customize (even if you don't know php). I don't plan on ever using anything else again for small to mid-size projects.
 
aim- car to give us some examples of any of your drupal sites in action? I've also been debating on taking the drupal plunge.
 
Drupal hands down. The learning curve is well worth it in the end. Framework is much more powerful and therefore easier to extend and scale up when needed.

Also you may check out plone. I've heard good things - especially for larger sites but haven't given it a spin yet. It's based on Python.
 
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