On Dec 21, 2010, at 8:43 AM, eckinator wrote: > from what I've seen so far, the man competitors are drupal, joomla, > typo3 and wordpress in alphabetical order. can anyone comment on which > is the easiest to learn and maintain? I would probably have the web > site designed by an agency but want to maintain it myself once it is > online
I'd recommend Wordpress. We build quite a few Wordpress sites at work and it's good enough that our designers can handle it without getting me involved. The only thing I hate about it is that it's a pain to change domain names (eg moving from a test environment to production). Joomla is harder to learn but is very flexible once you know what you're doing. I like it much more than Wordpress but I've had a few years experience with it. Regarding security you only need to keep two things in mind: 1. Keep the system up to date. Security patches come out fairly regularly for any of the popular CMSes and once an exploit is known then it's only a matter of time until they find your site. 2. Be careful which themes / extensions / plugins you install as the coders aren't always competent. Keep them up to date as well. I've had to clean up hacked installs of both Joomla and Wordpress. Two instances were due to external password breaches, the rest were just out of date software. BTW Wordpress is very good at notifying you of updates for both the core CMS and its plugins & themes. You can see what's available when logged in via your admin area and if your server is appropriately set up, upgrades are just one click away if you're not too concerned about making backups. I did once have a theme update break a site so be warned :) As for the others, I won't go starting a flame war with my opinion of Drupal ;) I've not used Typo3 so I'm not qualified to comment on it. Cheers, Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
