Top 3 options for web designer to design a website

It has been noticed in past few years that the web design industry is entering into a new horizons. Much because of reasons like every business has now got a e-version, cost of owning a website is getting cheaper day by day. Another great change happened in past few years is emergence of content management system. When we hear the term content management system the first name I guess anyone hears is Wordpress. However Wordpress is not the only name in the race of good content management system. Web designers across globe have now got luxury to their preferred CMS from a variety of options out on Internet. Few famous out of those are : ExpressEngine , TextPattern, Tumblr, Symphony CMS, Flatpress and many more. After seeing the day by day increasing popularity of Content Management System. Many Companies have entered into this extremely luring segment of internet business. But still the major portion of this segment is collectively owned by three Monsters of the technology. Namely Wordpress, Joomla and Drupal. Now Lets know bit more these giant big CMS.

Wordpress : Wordpress is the most easy to use CMS as rated by people. Though its the easiest of option yet its stretchability powers its to be used for variety of purposes. Ranging from a simple personal blog to a complex business website of a huge corporate house. Wordpress Pros Simplest thing to use - No need for modifications Best option for blogging or sharing thoughts in a sequential manner Even the non techie users can get the hang of it quickly

Wordpress Cons Not great scope for developer The community seems to like to complain Upgrades bring more bugs than fixes sometimes

Drupal If you are someone who likes to write hand written code rather than using WYSIWYG Editors. Then here you get the best option namely Drupal. It resembles more to a developers framework than a traditional CMS. Though its a heaven for a developer but it is a hell for designers. As it doesn't give great look and feel.

Drupal Pros Extremely developer friendly. Strong community for help. Can make exceptional websites with most complex functionalities.

Drupal Cons Not very designer and user-friendly. Theming of Drupal is a big fail. Costs you more time and money

Joomla

The first choice of designers come out as Joomla because it has got capability to bring imagination on screen. This CMS can be easily handled even by a new user because of constant efforts of more and more developers to create tools which are easy to understand.

Joomla Pros • Friendly for all types of users - Designers, Developers and Administrators • Huge community is awesome for assisting • Has been rapidly growing and improving Joomla Cons • Not user-friendly enough for beginners to understand • Not quite as powerful as Drupal • Recently rebuilt the entire system from ground-up, and so there are still many out there sticking to the old versions (1.0.x)

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