Joomla Or Wordpress

It won’t be an exaggeration if we say that CMS is the evolution of blogging. In fact it will be the correct phrase. As we see today that all blogging services like blogger, Wordpress and tumblr etc have now developed into Content Management Services. Whether it is the abstract look and feel of tumblr or it is the simplicity of wordpress or the template oriented websites from blogger.

The two major players in today’s world CMS market are Joomla and Word press and thanks to our luck they both are Open source and PHP based Services making them easily customizable and affordable at the same time.

Both of these companies have evaluated from the simple blog management services into major Los Angeles Web Design service providers. But the facts which make these two stands in front row of CMS are –

As discussed above, Both Wordpress and Joomla are Open Source.So there are many free and community created plug-ins and other components vailable throughout the internet giving versatility and flexibility in web designing.
Another great feature present in both of these services is their very friendly user interface. This is derived from the UI used for earlier blogging editors. But now these GUIs are not just limited to blogging or data entry only. They can be used to control any aspect or application related with web designing.Last point has also been discussed earlier, since both Wordpress and Joomla are open source. So they are free of cost also, though you might be charged for some customizations and plug-ins but it will even after these minor charges be very cheap. If you compare the cost of maintaining these services with equally evolved other services then you will see a major difference there.

Now we will discuss separately each of them what makes them distinguishable from each other,

Wordpress: When it comes to facts and numbers then Wordpress is way far ahead from any blogging or CMS service provider. According to alexa’s internet indexing, Wordpress account for 17% of total internet traffic at present. And every 5th website is either created by using Wordpress web designing tool or is a Wordpress blog itself.

The simple and user friendly design is the key of success of Wordpress and being Open source has made is one of the most customizable service.So if you are looking for a blog or some website which will be requiring lots of different and customized component with very simple and user friendly platform then WORDPRESS is your destination.

Joomla: If you are looking for corporate California Web Design and a web site which is going to be very huge and handling large amount of data then Joomla is the best which is out there for you. Similar to Wordpress Joomla also has a huge number of components and plug-ins but what makes it separate from Wordpress is its ability to handle very large web development environment and creating an abstraction between the complexities of web designing from user.

At last we can conclude that both of these platforms are great for web development and it’s up to the web designer’s understanding that which one he is comfortable with.