Blog entries tagged joomla vs drupal

Alternative Joomla Administrator Templates and Dancing Bears

Jen Kramer — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:17:27 +0100

Dancing Bear Syndrome is a term coined by Jared Spool and Alan Cooper (among others in the usability community). Someone says, "Look! A dancing bear!" And you are amazed! The bear is dancing! How cool is that?

Of course, bears don't dance well. It's just amazing that they dance at all. The novelty of it all is what catches our attention, not the quality of the dancing.

Alternative Joomla administrator templates are dancing bears.

First off, what is a Joomla admin template...

Those who can't do, teach. (Really???)

Jen Kramer — Wed, 13 May 2009 05:00:00 +0100

Recently, a student of mine showed me a Twitter exchange between two prominent Joomla developers about this very phrase. The argument made was if you're good enough to actually do, you wouldn't have time to be teaching. The implied conclusion to that is if you're teaching, you clearly aren't a first rate designer/developer, and you have to teach to pay the bills.

We could carry this argument to this: if you are a first-rate designer/developer, you wouldn't have time to volunteer your s...

Take a survey on Joomla vs. Drupal

Jen Kramer — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 06:00:00 +0100

Webology e-Business Solutions is doing a survey on the positives and negatives of Joomla and Drupal.

Read about the survey.

Take the survey.

He says it takes 20-30 min to complete, but it really only took me 10 min.

I look forward to seeing what the article has to say for the comparison!

Packt Publishing Open Source CMS available for nominations

Jen Kramer — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 05:00:00 +0100

Check out the Packt site to see how you can nominate your favorite CMS for a nice award. Let's beat Drupal this year, shall we?

There's a new category, the CMS MVP, the person/people who have contributed tirelessly to their communities. I nominated Barrie North for that -- good documentation of these systems is so hard to find.

Misinformation in the Drupal world: Part 2

Jen Kramer — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 05:00:00 +0100

"Stronger security" with Drupal. What, you mean Joomla can be more easily hacked?

Well, no, that's not typically what the Drupal people mean by this. As with all CMSs, the number one weak point for hacking is passwords that are easily cracked. Since that's all about human error, Joomla and Drupal are equally vulnerable in that regard.

The second weak point in the chain is making sure that your web developer updates your site quickly and efficiently to the latest "do...

Misinformation in the Drupal world: Part 1

Jen Kramer — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 05:00:00 +0100

Just to respond to some misinformation floating around out there in the Drupal world. There is actually little difference between Drupal and Joomla these days. If anything, Joomla is growing faster than Drupal in adoption, interest, and usage. The amount of development for 3rd party extensions is stunning. Neither Drupal nor Joomla are going anywhere anytime soon, but Joomla is clearly the future-forward choice now that 1.5 stable has been released.

Responding to a colleague of mine fro...