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Which CMS is best for your needs

Which CMS is best for your needs?

The revolution, content management systems have caused today, has resulted in a non-technical or a nerd can equally update any website with this tool. While the basic necessities of an ecommerce website, as in having responsive websites/responsive web designs for web development and mobile friendly websites for the best conversions always hold good, it’s not to be missed that having a user friendly CMS is necessary to have the content managed quite independently.

WordPress, Drupal, Joomla are the most popular Content management systems worldwide; picking one of them to choose the specific business profile is the need of the hour.

CMS Comparison chart goes below:

Having seen the basics and goodness of each of the CMSs above, let’s talk a bit on features and stats related. WordPress holds the biggest of the 3 in market shares with 65%, while Drupal and Joomla hold the 3rd and the 2nd most popular CMS respectively worldwide. Free themes and free plug ins are available for all three of them. Frequency of updates is good for all of them being from 30-40 days whereas the choice should depend on the need as per the facts mentioned in the smart art above.

To talk on the skill level needed, Technical expertise is not a necessity and text paste from MS word to a WordPress site is easy while Drupal needs the highest expertise technically also it is the best to produce advanced sites and Joomla is in between WordPress and Drupal where there’s a less effort to understanding it and the best for fairly complex sites.

Having spoken a lot about the 3 highly prevailing CMSs, WordPress, Joomla and Drupal, hope you must have a really fair idea of what your need is and what is the best for you. if you are looking for the best service provider to do this for you, just ask us.

Most Important Factors to be considered before choosing a CMS

The growth of hand held devices and the respective users today have necessitated businesses to use responsive websites or responsive web designs in web development because having a mobile friendly website is very important to broaden the customer base. In addition, having the content at par with the trends and technology is extremely important if you wish to stand apart, as an ecommerce service provider. Having a lot of Content management systems today, WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, CMS Comparison to choose the best and the most user- friendly CMS has become a big challenge.

Eye-alluring CMS doesn’t mean the best-for-use one; let’s go through some of the factors to be considered in studying the systems and the top 5 CMS prevailing today.

What is an open source CMS? A content management tool built on a platform built on a code easy for anyone to use and distribute is termed an open source CMS. To mention on popular CMSs, it is WordPress for blog build and growing ecommerce sites; Joomla for appreciably established ecommerce companies; Drupal for big enterprises. To mention on the ease of learning, WordPress is the easiest of all and Drupal is the toughest while the rest are moderate.

To know which is the best for you, consider,

  • Functionality in crux: Managing a website, that’s creating it, adding, deleting, editing and maintaining the webpages should be accompanied by a few other functions that’s necessary for the core stability of an ecommerce website. Check if the CMS you choose suffices it.
  • Editor capabilities: Editor being one of the core elements of CMS, used by publishers for provision of heading and lists should let the editor have an access to handle images, files and whatsoever is required for the web design.
  • Asset management: A bad CMS design affects the usability. CMS providing for the images are preferred along with the capability of image editing, pdf uploads and more.
  • The best Search option: Users mostly look out for the search option in a website. Make sure your CMS does this at the utmost perfection.
  • Flexibility in customization: The CMS should be easy enough to retrieve and show the content customized for the device/pc. Make sure you check upon this.
  • User feedback: CMS enabling user communication via a chat or comments or ratings is a must, with the necessary plug in or 3rd party interfaces. Check it.
  • Role maintenance: CMS should be capable enough to let the blogger lend permissions of add/change/comment over the blogs or manage the functions/accesses as necessary.
  • Versioning: Having a CMS that controls versioning to get you the last saved state in case of an erroneous move, is an advantage though not a mandate need
  • Multi web support: Driving more than one website with a single CMS installation sounds attractive. Isn’t it? It is useful too.
  • Multilingual possibility: CMS supporting multiple languages is not something to be ignored, even if you are a domestic business today. It eases the future expansion, make sure to have it.

In short, to choose a CMS, consider the below: Adaptability, Manageability, Scalability, Security, User friendliness, Plug ins connected, HTML CSS support availability, Social media & SEO compliance, the ease to migrate and internationalization capability. To get the best of CMS services, don’t hesitate to give us a call or visit our website.

Drupal 6 : End Of Life!

Drupal 6 : End Of Life!

Drupal is the content management software or content management platform for creating integrated digital frameworks with any number of add-ons to customize your content presentation.

What is it about drupal versioning? Of Feb 24th 2016, Drupal 6 is at EOL (End Of Life). What this means to you?

=> Drupal 6 would no longer be supported on a larger note; not used for creating new projects or documentations or modify the existing projects for bugs.

=> Core commits on Drupal 6 would be nil

=> Security advisories or support for Drupal 6 would be nil

=> Drupal 6 releases on project pages would be flagged as not supported

=> Update for Drupal sites would go antedated any sooner

Upgrading Drupal is definitely necessary but to which version you would want to upgrade depends on the complexity of your website and the modules contained in it. A lot of modules have been built in Drupal 8, as in Views and WYSWYG editor. Migration can be done as an experimental step from Drupal 6 to Drupal 8 directly so upgrading would be simple using an interface or using Drush which is the command-line shell and scripting interface to make life easier for those who spend their working hours hacking away at the command prompt. Upgrading to Drupal 7 is as well possible using the core update aspect and this would be supported till Drupal 9 comes in.

Upgrading is a must; for sites that aren’t upgraded by now it is only the paid support that’s available from vendors for Drupal 6.

To mention on the support for the version upgrades, the community initiatives to support Composer is available on Drupal.org, taking the help of the community members and the maintainer of Composer and Packagist.org.

Support for the 2 Composer end points, which is for Drupal 7 projects and for the Drupal 8 projects is available with Drupal.org. These separate endpoints enable Drupal.org to translate Drupal-style version numbers into the true semantic versioning as per the expectations of Composer. Additionally supporting a transparent movement to a better semantic versioning for contrib projects on Drupal.org is also being aimed at. A beta of this Drupal.org Composer support in March might come up soon.

Drupal.org provides support allowing users to follow more content types, as in Forum Topics, Posts, Case Studies, documentation Book Pages and more. But then, email notification for any activity on a wide variety of content on Drupal.org is very much getting possible for the users, which forces us to provide some better tools for managing those notifications.

Having said these, we assure we are up to date with the software updates and the implications they have at any scale for any kind of business or website. If you are looking for the best content management system provider to handle your website content and system upgrades, feel free to contact us.