THE BORE
General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: radioheadrule83 on January 17, 2014, 12:11:55 PM
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I'll probably ask this elsewhere too, but I figure some of you probably do this sort of thing...
Our current website uses Joomla, along with a bunch of crappy plug ins like DocMan and others... I think Joomla is okay for me, but my colleagues just aren't up to using it for uploading files and updating pages. Its looking a bit out of date these days so I want to give it a bit of an overhaul, maybe make it a bit more responsively designed. Is there a decent CMS out there that I can properly template, but that also has a decent user-friendly dashboard?
I'm half thinking wordpress might be better... any CMS / plugin suggestions considered!
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The devs at my place of employment seem to prefer WordPress over Joomla.
I personally have never used Joomla before so I can't really say if it's crap compared to WordPress.
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I've never felt the need to use anything but Wordpress but I've never had to do anything really super-CMS-y either.
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Wordpress here at our office.
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What kind of website? I'm not a big fan of Joomla, myself, but I haven't really dived into any of these different softwares.
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I've only used Joomla and WordPress, but WP is definitely the easier to operate for end users.
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Wordpress is just as flexible as Joomla, minus the convoluted backend.
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You're definitely looking for WordPress. Easily the most user friendly + capable CMS you can deal with. Not idiot proof by any means, but as close as you're going to get.
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I think Drupal is pretty solid and has a great community.
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What kind of website? I'm not a big fan of Joomla, myself, but I haven't really dived into any of these different softwares.
We do social housing and other work in the local community... So it's basically a site that explains who we are and what we've got going on. We tend to do a lot of updates about community work, and they like to have pictures or scanned news pieces up about that. We post new job vacancies, update forms related to the housing side of things etc. The easier to update the better really. They're hounding me about social too, and our current joomla setup isn't sharing or communicating in any way with our Facebook or Twitter accounts - I might try and do something about that too.
As I say - joomla seems straightforward enough for me, but I think the taxonomy they use for categories and pages confuses people. There are a lot of clicks involved... I forgot about drupal. I used that years ago on another site, I imagine it's probably better now too... Definitely leaning towards wordress though
Thanks for the input!
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That sounds simple enough that Wordpress would be what you are looking for. Plenty of (responsive) themes -- even the pre-installed ones -- and mods that will help you with social, and the like.
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Wordpress.
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I think Drupal is pretty solid and has a great community.
I don't think it's too great for what he's going for, but yeah: I haven't had issues with Drupal.